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Without the green, it just looks like Rockshox with extra steps
From Kirk McDowall’s instagram story today. Another look at Norco’s DH proto. Hopefully they’re moving to production soon!
I'm seeing that Reynolds is starting to do aluminum wheels now, and they seem to be the Sun Ringle rims and hubs according to the specs on their site, is Hayes shuttering Sun Ringle and rolling everything into Reynolds?
Speaking of the Hayes group, no one commented a few pages ago on the mentioning of possible new Mezzer and updated Dorado - no one has any inside info on this?
Minor detail, but that integrated fender on the new Diamond looks tough
Their old mudguards were so bad that it’s a very welcome change. Looks like the onyx gets one too which is sweet. They just posted a tonne of new stuff on instagram
Genuine question, not trying to be facetious, what is the point of DVO?
From my understanding they're under the same umbrella as Fox, so are they just supposed to be the more budget focused option within their organization?
Sounds like you've got DVO confused with Marzocchi.
Yep, my bad
Was wondering the same thing. There aren't a lot of co's speccing Sun product from what I see aside from the wares from the Junit lineup. Reynolds has some decent upmarket spec, so that brand may carry a cache value for consumers and product managers alike.
Looks quite a bit different from the version Gracey Hemstreet was riding at Hardline. Really looking forward to seeing what they come up with.
Gracias amigo, wanted to know earlier because I want one of the heavily discounted mezzers, but not if theres a new one around the corner.
Norco and spesh in a silent competition to see who can take the longest to release their DH bike to the public
Maybe keep Sun Ringlè as the hub brand and slide the rims all into the Reynolds brand? Outside of some nostalgia with some older peeps, the Sun Ringlè name doesn't seem to have the luster it once did.. But, consolidation under one name would make sense...
Honestly hard to tell, Kirk is like 6 feet or over and Gracey is tiny. Definitely a different front triangle than to what Kirk was running in the past but its very hard to compare an XS-S to L-XL bike for subtle differences that can't simply be attributed to sizing. .
Sun Ringlè Mulefut rims still rule the fat world.
Seat tube gusset looks great, hopefully that'll be on all the production bikes
That did make me Lol..But I would bet $1000 usd to any and all takers that Specialized beats Norco to it. There are B riders already on them..
Right. It really doesn't make a lot of sense to have two wheel brands now that one is producing an alloy option. However, if they updated the Modo for modern times my tune may pitch higher.
You sir ain't wrong. Bang for the buck that rim kills.
But it’s very intertwined with Suntour…
So there is room to discuss how bad Suntour could be after all or how good of a fork you can build on a maybe not so good chassis…not saying Suntour chassis are bad and idk how much the current models share.
Looks like this drop of DVO product shares very little if anything
Or we haven’t seen the Suntour drop yet 😅
Supposedly for this upcoming race season the Norco proto DH bike has undergone an "evolution", still no official word on a production version but birds be suggesting sooner rather then later though.
Erice was running a identical looking front triangle but obviously much smaller at crankworx.
They are assembled on their own line in the Suntour factory. Suntour makes some parts for DVO.. Maybe most, but I'm not sure.. I believe Suntour helps with some of the engineering, but the design work is DVO..
Yeah, the discounted Mezzers were a strange sight, to be honest - if I was in the market for an enduro-fork, I’d be all over them (but having a dh-bike, I don’t see the point of an enduro fork taking place up front instead of my Dorado! 😁). In the previous rumors thread, we were discussing the possibility of Manitou making a double-crown version of the Mezzer, to go along with the single crown and the Dorado. The market for such a model is there - Intend, Formula and MRP are lurking in it. Manitou has the experience of having a sc- and a dc-versions of 1 model - the Travis. I can certainly see the point in a dc-Mezzer with boost hub spacing, 190-200mm travel (especially if the updated Dorado comes out capable of the rumored 220mm travel), and 2.3-2.5kg weight!
Very good look for higher pivot frameworks from vital g-out pics. can see at neko's bike the main pivot way above the chainring, while on gwin's bike its lower and behind chainring/guard.
also noticed gwin had no chain but running ochain, maybe wanting to repeat leogang? that must feel amazing!!
Looks to me like Neko is just still riding the Loctite/Faction bonded frame from last season. Gwin, on the new production frame.
Is it just me, or is Gwin missing a chain again?
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