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I bet the Ripley SL will come in an XL that has a reach of 540mm
Kirk from Norco riding something here - looks like low pivot Norco. Could be a Fluid... chainstay protector is different however.
Yeah I could have mentioned that they were tossing up between the lowest-pivot idler bike they could make, and the highest-pivot non-idler bike, for that reason.
Gotta shout-out Neko/FW for the super-transparent development process with his bikes. It's cool to know exactly what you're getting, and why, and how.
What are the odds that Giant get into financial difficulties if they can’t sell bikes in the USA any time soon? It also sounds like it goes for brands manufactured by Giant. Too big to fail?
I thought that issue was resolved?
Only for stuff made in Taiwan. Still shows up on the gov website
I saw one yesterday and it looked great! Don't have any geo numbers unfortunately...
I'm impressed they have so many builds for each model. Am I a bad reader, or is pricing missing?
Welcome back to the MTB world Haro
no way.
DH AXS on Vali Holls Bike
I thought a hearing on the lawsuit Haro is dealing with was supposed to have happened by now.. Anyone know about that?
Looks like an entirely new rear triangle too. Man that thing looks super clean!
2026 Tr11 framesets
source: reddit
Looks similar to the bike from the brage press release
Going way back to this. Theo mentioned it in his vlog from yesterday. Said that Jackson put a sock on his shock and everyone freaked out and reposted a million times, but it was literally just a normal shock. So apparently nothing special going on.
Please, please, please have internal dropper cable routing.
I’d wager it’s an Optic prototype. New version isn’t going to be HP, but will have a touch more travel than the Fluid.
Probably…
Bottle cage mounts on a dh frame? Definitely looks better than the current TR11, though (if not a little boring. Maybe it's just the colours).
They've already done the SX and the Ebike, plus it's been 4 years since the last update
that seat angle looks reasonable, could this be a replacement for the spire as well? similar to the bottlerocket be a single crown or dual crown bike?
Noticed in the pink site Nukeproof Axess Racing bike check that seatpost is listed as "Rimpact prototype". Seat tube shake-weight incoming?
That would be a very logical place to put one!
DH Axys: cool? Just not something that gets me going. A company like SRAM it seems surprising how long they’ve taken to get it to market. But also nobody wants it so I just can’t get excited.
Proto optic?: ok. So it’s just a long stroked previous gen optic? Just fucked off in left field for a few years before realizing the last bike was the bomb.
TR11: is this not just a bottle rocket with different stickers? I’m at work on my phone so I’m too lazy to look and compare.
Seems dumb to make this proto Norco an Optic with more travel that pushes it to Sight travel range. Guess they can always do new name. Seem to still have a few of the old Optics, though. Wife loves hers.
I think DH transmission will be cooler when they finally trickle it down to cables. improved clearances and potential for shifting under load without a chain snapping.
Visually, that TR11 photo looks identical to Bottlerocket save Vivid and beer can head tube instead of a taper.
I wonder if the new TR11 is just a stretched out BR that you can mullet and maybe longer CS for more stability. All with less interesting colours. But otherwise, it looks pretty darn similar.
29" at least in the front should ve a given for the new TR11
From PB, CH3.2 at Hardline Tasmania.
When will we see it for the Zeb?
You can long stroke this gen Optic, and previous.
Currently running a 55mm stroke Vivid on my HP Optic
Gen 2 were 190x45. Can you overstroke that without going to a 190 x 51 non-metric shock? For quality, just get a cascade link, no?
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