Random new bike thread
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Maybe it gets less hideous if you misalign your eyes
Fuckin' Tazerrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!!!
It's like they painted all the worst parts of the frame black so they would be less noticeable. Kinda has the opposite effect.
At least the tazer name makes sense now, although rail gun would have been way cooler.
The absolute clusterfuck that is the PB article comment section is worth checking out for the Offering press release. You don't get drama like that often. The below threshold comments are gold.Evil "The offering", steeper seat angle, yet no profile pic.
https://www.pinkbike.com/news/evils-releases-new-140mm-29er-the-offering.html
Evil makes some tasty bikes these days, but much like Crank Brothers they need so much PR work on the brand name that its almost worth changing it.
Holy sh!t.. That was "interesting".
Obviously a lot of smart people involved.Best comment though: In other news, Intense has an interesting looking new e-bike called The Disgusting...
Early render of a 180mm Pole in the works. Yoke driven shock, integrated headset, 34,9mm diameter to allow for a shorter seat tube and potentially even more extreme geometry than The Machine.
I never thought about that, but it's true. The Evolink already does quite well in that department:You forgot to mention the improved folding ability of the bike due to better cable routing and easy removable connection between shock driver and swing arm.
Die spinnen, die Finnen.I never thought about that, but it's true. The Evolink already does quite well in that department:
Kind of a random thought, but I rode a Zerode Taniwha on the weekend and the Pinion gear box didn't really have me wanting to ride it more. Granted I only rode it around the parking lot and some grassy stuff, but the shifting had shitty feedback. For one, you can't shift under load and when it does shift, sometimes I could feel it and other times I was wondering if it did actually shift. The gripshift and effort required was not the best either.
The actual Zerode frame was very nice though. And the bike didn't feel heavy to me, after reading some report about the bike being a porker.
The actual Zerode frame was very nice though. And the bike didn't feel heavy to me, after reading some report about the bike being a porker.
A friend of mine ordered one as soon as it was available on "the" Saturday and got it the next Tuesday which nice for travelling from Spain to Sweden!Evil "The offering", steeper seat angle, yet no profile pic.
BUT the bike was not build, he got all the parts in a big box... quite rude taking into account that the price is rather high for a direct sell bike. Then the reverb died after 200m of riding and his fork is leaking air to the lower leg... what a start!
lololollolololololololoA friend of mine ordered one as soon as it was available on "the" Saturday and got it the next Tuesday which nice for travelling from Spain to Sweden!
BUT the bike was not build, he got all the parts in a big box... quite rude taking into account that the price is rather high for a direct sell bike. Then the reverb died after 200m of riding and his fork is leaking air to the lower leg... what a start!
BORK
How does a company (distibutor?) get away with that in 2018?
jeez.
jeez.
A friend of mine ordered one as soon as it was available on "the" Saturday and got it the next Tuesday which nice for travelling from Spain to Sweden!
BUT the bike was not build, he got all the parts in a big box... quite rude taking into account that the price is rather high for a direct sell bike. Then the reverb died after 200m of riding and his fork is leaking air to the lower leg... what a start!
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When I wrote all the parts in a box, it was really that. He had to build the bike from scratch, there were no instructions and no bleed kit either... 
I was wrong to say that Evil was rude. Evil was just being evil!
I was wrong to say that Evil was rude. Evil was just being evil!
But how is the seatangle?A friend of mine ordered one as soon as it was available on "the" Saturday and got it the next Tuesday which nice for travelling from Spain to Sweden!
BUT the bike was not build, he got all the parts in a big box... quite rude taking into account that the price is rather high for a direct sell bike. Then the reverb died after 200m of riding and his fork is leaking air to the lower leg... what a start!
Add-on secondary air spring - https://diazsuspensiondesign.com/runt/
https://www.pinkbike.com/news/the-starling-cycles-sturn-raw-with-brett-wheeler.html
Maybe not really new, but i never heard of this bike before.
So what do you monkeys make of this?
BMW/Superco inspired design but with a more streamlined no fuss approach.
I do quite like the idea.
Dead silent, not much to break, no influences on suspension performance and a high pivot point.
I was never a fan of singlespeed dh bikes but in this case i think it makes a lot of sense as you actually get a performance advantage out of it and do not have to use a chain tensioner. His views about being in the wrong gear do make a bit of sense to me, as long as you´re mostly riding tracks with a good amount of vertical.
Thoughts? Anybody tried going singlespeed dh before? (Yeah i know, wheels look flexy...)
Maybe not really new, but i never heard of this bike before.
So what do you monkeys make of this?
BMW/Superco inspired design but with a more streamlined no fuss approach.
I do quite like the idea.
Dead silent, not much to break, no influences on suspension performance and a high pivot point.
I was never a fan of singlespeed dh bikes but in this case i think it makes a lot of sense as you actually get a performance advantage out of it and do not have to use a chain tensioner. His views about being in the wrong gear do make a bit of sense to me, as long as you´re mostly riding tracks with a good amount of vertical.
Thoughts? Anybody tried going singlespeed dh before? (Yeah i know, wheels look flexy...)
Well, that's not really new. And their air spring curves look really weird: the curves from 0 to 4 tokens look more like just going up in pressure... but I didn't read much on their site, to be honest!
I don't know who was first but Manitou has the IRT for Manitou forks only, Öhlins has a similar setup too and there are 2 companies known to me doing kits for many popular forks on the market: there is the AWK from Germany https://www.chickadeehill.de and the DVC from SD Components in NZ https://www.shockcraft.co.nz/dynamic-volume-chamber-v2-sd-components.html
Has Pole ditched 27.5 for good? I can't find any of their frames in that wheelsize.
New Strive. Terrible shoop job, but you can still tell that they managed to make their bb area even uglier than Yeti.
But not as ugly as a Knolly, nowhere near as ugly as a Knolly.
so ugly they are almost not ugly?
Mine was 34lbs with real parts such as 1200 gram tires. I think you can build one to be 32 with decent tires. Yeah it wont go into an easier gear with load. This is bizarre considering you can shift any MX bike wide open with no clutch. I know the .80 HP the humans make is so stressful on metal. They need to tweak that and make the engagement on it much higher. It's like 18 degrees now it should be over 100....
I know little about motorbikes or Pinion gearboxes but as this is the internet that really doesn't matter as I have an opinion. I'd assume it has a bit to do with how little force you have to shift the Pinion box and that they want to keep them with almost instant engagement. A moto box(I think) uses a pretty crude dog clutch and you have a foot operated shift lever that forces a selector fork to the desired position, having a loose fitting dog/gear assembly on a pushbike would probably feel pretty crap.
The 2019 ProPain Tyee looks good as well. Crabon and alloy models available, decent geo, improved leverage ratio curve, good price - me likey.
https://www.propain-bikes.com/en/blog/2018/11/27/tyee-2019/
https://www.propain-bikes.com/en/bike-tyee-2019/#geometrie
https://www.propain-bikes.com/en/blog/2018/11/27/tyee-2019/
https://www.propain-bikes.com/en/bike-tyee-2019/#geometrie
Now the question is, did they make the 2018 version's LR bad intentionally so they could post that chart now?The 2019 ProPain Tyee looks good as well. Crabon and alloy models available, decent geo, improved leverage ratio curve, good price - me likey.
https://www.propain-bikes.com/en/blog/2018/11/27/tyee-2019/
https://www.propain-bikes.com/en/bike-tyee-2019/#geometrie
The less said about the name the better. A new bicycle from Sick Bicycles in collaboration with FtW, yet to be funded.
https://www.vitalmtb.com/news/press-release/Sick-Bicycle-Co-Introduces-the-Gnarpoon,2428
27,5" or 29" and 150 or 170mm of rear travel. 62° HTA and 77° STA. Maybe we need a new single metric to determine the progressiveness of a frame's geometry. I suggest the distance from the ground to the intersection of seat- and headtube. Pole could totally be winning that contest at the moment if only they published their numbers.
https://www.vitalmtb.com/news/press-release/Sick-Bicycle-Co-Introduces-the-Gnarpoon,2428
27,5" or 29" and 150 or 170mm of rear travel. 62° HTA and 77° STA. Maybe we need a new single metric to determine the progressiveness of a frame's geometry. I suggest the distance from the ground to the intersection of seat- and headtube. Pole could totally be winning that contest at the moment if only they published their numbers.
No fucking way! I check the Sinister site from time to time hoping that there will be something nice on there, same with Spooky but they have horrible shit!
I like the new Last Bikes "Glen" frame, each size has a unique rear triangle, the effective STA steepens on larger sizes rather than slackening like many other frames. They also machine the bearing recesses in Germany after paint so you know your bearing are pointing where they should be and aren't pressed in over paint.
http://www.last-bikes-shop.com/epages/62262325.sf/en_GB/?ObjectPath=/Shops/62262325/Categories/GLEN_V1
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" what if we were to fit both the links to the top of an old Ironhorse 6 point? " 