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I’ve heard some of the older frames weren’t perfect, but mine is #465(A200) and I was blown away with how spot on the fitments and tolerances are.
On the S200 I don’t believe the rear is 1 piece like mentioned above. I think they ment each side is once piece CNC machined. Looks like the half’s are bolted together.
thats the benefit of at least the additive A series bikes.
they effectively make the bikes to order, no real hardship having 3 models - regular, HP, gearbox HP (once they have been designed and tested); making the lugs and gluing the tubes in is the same for each design.
its not like a conventional brand's approach where a new bike means being stuck with half a warehouse of the old ones
If you bend any part of the frame, are you sure nothing else got bent? Overstressed? How sure you are you can only replace one part and don't need to replace the whole frame?
The man makes sense:
I’ve heard there are two chains from a reputable source. But a gearbox makes sense too. Time will tell
A gearbox AND a derailleur. Bit of mis directions or MOAR GEARS!!!!!!
Interesting. A gearbox makes more sense in terms of justifying a total redesign of the bike. Because there's a lot more that's different in the bb/linkage/shock area. The lower shock bolt alone is at least 3-4" higher. If there is a gearbox under there, that doesn't leave a lot of space for the old 6-bar design so there would probably have to be a new layout, as well. Cool stuff either way.
Another Aston find from a couple of weeks ago:
Let’s see if this gets deleted as well
Speedholes
Isn't this the Horst pivot bike we have seen under Reece since the announcement?
spotted on amaury pierron’s ig story,
strange knob on the air stanchion of Amaury's fork, could be a spring damper Boxxer?
What are we looking at? New Levo?
Definitely not the fork. Nothing to see there.
Was this posted before? Simon Maurer on some brakes. Caliper reminds me of Trickstuff.
I first thought trickstuff as well, machining looks very nice, and the color of the pads looks like trickstuff power.
But, there is a snapshot when he leans the bike over to the other side, and you can clearly see whatever Hope does when you can remove the pistons.
And the banjo fitting on the caliper is the same as Hope uses, different from trickstuff. Also there are some adjustor screws on the levers which looks like what Hope usually does
So im betting its some new updated hope version
Could make sense, in conjunction with the updated Hope master cylinder with a bleed screw on it recently.
no idea what those are but looks interesting
they do have red pads tho, the classic trickstuff power pads, and it would be about time that trickstuff made something new, a way tom improve them even further could be by adding stiffness to the caliper making it one piece
Took me a bit to dig this up... Specialized patent drawing from late 2023.
Looks like they're continuing to iterate on this.
Those are Galfer rotors. I’d assume Hope or Trickstuff would do development with their own rotors.
Hydraulic Bottomout Control?
I love the fact the bike is so modern , new brakes in development, new belt drive frame, same 10+ year old 471's haha.
Definitely look like new Hopes, and as @Carraig042 mentioned it lines up with the new master cylinder we've seen.
What if Oak Components (also a German brand with simolar looking levers) is starting to make their own brake?
The idler is moved forward on the version they build, probably to get it closer to the instant centre.
What about Galfer themselves? Wasn’t there a rumor they are prototyping their own brake?
And while speaking about brakes, what happened to those Hayes proto calipers that were rumored to be a Dominion gen2? There was a photo of them and then nothing…
Yeah I was going to suggest Galfer also. I think there was also a photo circulating from them about a year ago of a proto caliper also in raw finish. I wonder if they go the Cascade Components route and do just the caliper at first, then work on lever second, or if they do a complete brake set.
Galfer makes Hope's pads IIRC...
And to further muddy the waters, MTX makes aftermarket pads for Hope and their race compound pads are red...
3d printed saddle from Trek