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I like how they specced all Ride kits with old X2.... heh 🙄
Cool bike, but Pivot and Santa Cruz are shooting themselves in the foot by only producing Enduro and DH bikes in Carbon Fiber. Most people don't want to baby a long travel rig everywhere they go, they just want to ride it. Go ahead and down vote this post, I don't care.
I used to be of the same mindset, having just broken an aluminium enduro bike, I'm not so sure anymore.
What do you mean baby a long travel rig? Have you seen what material gravity race bikes have been made from for the last........10 years? I've seen more catastrophically broken alloy bikes in that time, and Pivot/Santa Cruz customers just plain don't want Aluminium anyway
Geo looks pretty solid to me, I like the XL with the 445 stays (low bb mx wheels)
Yep, I got sick of cracking alloy bikes so Been on Carbon only unless the bike i want to test only comes in alloy.
Think I've cracked pretty much every alloy bike i've owned except for the new Marin alpine & a merida
Want to be a carbon hater as much as the next guy, but only frame I've broken was full carbon except the chainstays, which broke. (strength where it matters amirite?) Happened on hard turning/breaking, not a big drop or harsh bottom out.
I do think Atherton is onto something truly innovative with the S range. They're the only bikes that can tempt me at full price at the present moment.
100% that’s a big improvement for XL too!
Kate Courtney is in Brazil already, posted a ride 31/3 with a pic of what I guess is her regular BC40 with red SIDs.
Yesterday 1/4 posted a ride called new bike day, she’s Called the bike BC40 sparkle, can only see that it’s got purple-ish forks; and has otherwise kept the bike hidden.
Possibly new, possibly just a custom paint job, possibly new rockshox stuff about to be revealed?
Nothing wrong with a carbon front triangle! In my opinion it's only the rear end that's susceptible to dings and rock impacts that ideally should be alloy.
When printing 7075 stops being exclusively for NASA applications, that's when some truly insane bikes will start to hit the market. I'm hoping to start prototyping my own alloy lugged rig from September and I'll be updating this forum on how it all goes!
sparkle edition?
"When printing 7075 stops being exclusively for NASA applications" ~ more details please
norco makes the sight vlt cx official
https://www.vitalmtb.com/news/press-release/20-lighter-800wh-battery-ne…
new reverb got leaked on the new firebird on pivot's website
It could be a new bike; she posted a pic from Allied HQ w/ a frame in the stand that was blacked out but you could see a chainstay pivot and afaik Allied doesn't have a crab-link bike.
My guess is just new paint on a BC40 though...
New reverb goes well past 200mm. Seen 3 out in the wild.
This god damned company...
Yea, new paint job. She was picking out the color in an Instagram post from a couple weeks ago when she was at HQ.
Only one company (called HRL) makes it, and NASA are the ones buying. IIRC, you can't get it commercially. Yet...
How are they printing 7075? Is it SLM?
Rumor has it there will be a software update bumping the existing TQ motor up to 60nm before releasing a new motor for the MY26 bikes
Can nobody else get it or can nobody else afford it?
Those processes aren’t cheap.
The feed stock, which is the powder the laser sintering machine melts. It's not commercially available as far as I can tell, but you can buy 6061 if you have access to a machine. I'm willing to bet Atherton will be one of the first customers of the 7A77 feed stock when you can buy it, as it makes the process of making lugs a lot less wasteful.
https://3dprintingindustry.com/news/hrl-laboratories-places-high-strength-aluminum-in-the-hands-of-3d-printers-162886/
This makes it sound like it’s commercially available.
https://www.elementum3d.com/aluminum/
I can't speak to the actual availability of this either but I'm sure there's even more people working on it.
i saw this yesterday, got super excited, then checked the date...
So reviewers seem to love the Trek Slash ebike, but this norco is a 4 bar high pivot with a full sized motor and oversized battery- why would anyone ever choose the Trek over this?
Just because a bike looks like another one doesn’t mean it will perform equivalently. Think about all the different crab bikes and how differently they perform based on tiny kinematic differences. Brian Cahal recently revied the previous gen of the Norco in an ebike shootout and placed it dead last. Meanwhile, as you say, the Slash+ reviews well.
I bet this new Norco rides really well.
But that aside, thanks what I hate about ebikes- suspension no longer matters, geometry, compliance, none of it matters anymore. The only thing that really matters is the powertrain and the brakes. People fret over things like the quality of the display, whether you can add overdrive to your older motor via a firmware update, etc rather than how the bike rides. Crappy climbing geometry doesn't matter since you can pedal seated with the dropper down. Descending geometry is less critical because the much lower CoG a motor+battery gives you makes up for it. I have 0 desire to test, tune, and obsess over suspension settings on my ebike. I barely even worry about tire pressure on it.
This is probably just grumpy old man syndrome, but half the fun of mountain biking was art. Tuning things. Squeezing every single bit of engineering that you can out of a simple double diamond shape in a completely human powered, analog system, to the point that we worry about lateral vs torsional flex in chainstays and freaking O-Chain even exists.
Who cares about any of that in the Age of the Ebike.