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Gonna be hard to top the HTs
That’s pretty darn sharp.
Topping the durability included?
I’ve had no issues 🤷🏻♂️
I noticed that oneup is now listed as a brand under the Santa Cruz website like Reserve are.
Where did you see that?
Good spot there, had not checked the site. Burgtec still listed on there as a lower tier sponsor (judging by the size and position), I guess they are still a supplier for saddles and other bits that they can't get from Oneup
https://www.santacruzbicycles.com/en-US
Go to gear up top, One up is listed as a brand.
edit: as someone else pointed out, also on the team page https://www.santacruzbicycles.com/en-US/syndicate
They are both PON owned brands
This explains the new pricing on the droppers.
Knolly’s marketing email this morning said announcement coming Feb 1. Probably the Chilcotin, although the Fugitive is also due for the straight top tube treatment
Ibis and now Knolly, who's next on the the straight top tube train?
Seems like Privateer is bucking the trend!
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I must ask, is the bike lighter than it looks? There is not very much material in that bottom bracket junction.
IMO one of the best looking bikes I've ever seen. Super clean lines. Like an Aetherton had a baby with an aluminum WAO.
@sspomer you dirty dog... posting spy shots of a bike with the Vital logo laser etched on it.
How does it compare to the Firebird?
Few pages back someone mentioned similarity to ghost riot frames and go downvoted to oblivion, hate to say it, but there is striking resemblance. And the first gen. full party edition with formula suspension looks pretty nice on person to he honest.
Much lighter than it looks. My brother picked up the prototype (we did ask!).
Weight was less than my Privateer 161, so towards the lighter end of aluminium enduro frames.
Atherton Bikes, now with proprietary DirtHole (sorry, DRT.HL) down tube technology.
Yeah, it was me hahaha. I own a full party and the more I look at the Atherton prototype, the more it looks like the riot from every single angle (except bb area). It better be lighter though, my bike it's over 18kg almost stock except some ex511 rims, fox dhx (instead of the extremely unreliable formula mod), and just one dh casing rear tire.
They could tap the down tube for a plug and have lots of storage. Or just plug it up.
Not sure if anyone else spotted it, but it appears that Vali Höll has got a set of Sram’s new Maven levers (now in silver, and widely believed to be a mineral oil brake), with the red prototype callipers, which, as far as I can remember, have only previously been tested with Sram’s current levers which use DOT fluid.
Not sure if this means anything but it definitely piqued my interest. It’s also worth pointing out that Sram has had 6 months to use the ‘Maven’ trademark which started on the 5th of September last year, which will be up on the 5th March, so they might actually be releasing them quite soon?
Did anyone catch Forbidden's Instagram story with the RS Pike on the front of the druid? I thought people were mostly running these with 150/160mm forks, new high pivot DC bike??
looks like an Alloy Firebird
The Ghost riot was just simply one of the worst ok looking bikes that could have ever existed after 2010. They did cable tourism first but it was through the linkage which required the entire rear end to come off, you even had to take apart linkage bits to get the shock off. It also used bushings. Internal shock Scott bikes are higher on the list of acceptable end products for customers than the Riot was. And we're comparing that poor Atherton bike to a Riot.... shame on us all
Could just be the new Code Stealth levers and DOT fluid...
The current Riot it's nothing like the old one fortunately. Fully external cable routing and big bearings. The only problem I had was blowing up shocks, thx trunnion. The stock formula failed on me 4 times, almost 2 years later I'm still waiting for a replacement under warranty. It's not an issue with formula themselves, they seemed to respond okay, the problem is the spanish dealer.
And the swingarm too (both sides).
Looks like no UDH too (old style Sram cabled mech).