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Agreed, cool in theory, but not something I think I’d be interested in spending money on. I would like to try it but demos are still a lot of money, idk man.
Maybe they move the fluid back to budget focused AL only? I do forget that the carbon version exists regularly. I wonder if people veer away from the expensive fluid carbon because before a few years ago it was a dedicated value bike?
Sorry for the MTB market analysis rumors.
Please please please please please have long reaches
I wanted an optic but it weighs the same as my spire.
Optic could be psycho slack, that would leave fluid to be “normal” and revolver in the lighter xcish trail zone.
There is a cult of fluid riders inside the bike industry secretly praising the perfect kinematic and simple clean Horst packaging….
My gen3 optic + dvo diamond 36 is the same weight as the status 160 + fox 38 it replaced lol.
I wouldn't call it a useless bike. It's niche as fuck, but it's excellent at what it does. It's super jibby and the suspension performance is incredible for only 125mm. It's quite stiff and very burly, and rides like it's meant to be ridden at enduro bike pace on enduro bike terrain if you can hold on to it.
I'm curious to see the details on the new Revel, it's most likely the new Ranger. I wish it weren't flex stay, but I understand that most of the bikes it will be comparable to also have flex stays. I'll hold off on asking if it's coil compatible, I don't wanna start that again.
If the new ranger was flexstay, I wouldn’t be surprised, but that red rocket is a obviously their standard CBF 3 bar
The local brand manager showed us some release schedule along with some model data here at the product launch, earlier this year. Fluid will be the budget Al model line, Optic will return to be the higher tier one, with a slightly higher main pivot (Fluids are optimized for a 30t chainring, Gen 4 Optics will be for a 32t IIRC), but no idler. As someone else said, it'll be a return to the Gen 2 ways.
I run my Fluid the way most Norco employees do, with a 210x55 shock (~143mm of rear travel) and a 150mm fork. You lose some of the mid-travel support, but you get a more compliant bike. And the original amazing bottom out resistance is still there. Still wanted to try an overshocked (~135mm) Optic Gen 3. Sounds like an awesome jib bike.
You can overshock an Optic to 135…? I’m in!
If the new Enduro is never going to see the light of day, they should offer a link that’s ~160mm. The Cascade link is great but in 29er I’d still like more travel.
It will be interesting to see where they end up with as far as the new Enduro... Do they follow the new Demo like some think or refine what is still considered a capable bike?
The amount of brand new Gen 2 optics still available online is wild given they stopped making them a good 2 years ago. I wonder if that made the 3 a harder sale, can't say I've seen many either
Heard someone talking about two new models with sixfinity (naming scheme like the E-ones without E) supposedly releasing june/july.
Also Speci Enduro alledgedly 2027.
Take the spacer off the 185x50 shock and make it 185x55. Here's an example, right form Vital's bike checks
https://www.vitalmtb.com/community/mrmoody275/norco-optic-hp-custom
Yeah that’sa pretty neat bike. It’s unique and niche and isn’t that what bikes are supposed to be?
This would make perfect sense and follows current industry trends. You probably don't need a 120, 140 and 160 travel bike anymore, so have an 'MT' and an 'LT' both of which, like the ebikes, can run MX or full 29. You then have four bikes from two moulds potentially. Yeti also don't really have a history of rolling names over so expect that whatever the new bikes are they wont be SB160's/165's, SB140's etc.. Also helps retain a bit of value in any remaining inventory.
I assume it's going to be CBF, so a solid rear triangle.
Didn't we possibly see the bike already
It was in a few of Revel's supplier's booths at Sea Otter. Not launched and had the logos covered up.
Write up on the Revel over on PB...
I'm a moron. I'm so used to short travel bikes being Flex stay, I completely forgot that the CBF is a completely different suspension design that doesn't/can't use a flex stay.
Every time I hear sixfinity
With many brands moving away from their well-known suspension platform on the short travel bikes in place of flex stay designs, it was a relatively safe assumption these days.
I’ve also heard reliable they are ditching switch infinity link on future yetis. As for the enduro, who knows. They won’t lose the name and so a new bike has to be in the works. Maybe we’ll see it in whistler like we did with the current gen for the World Cup.
possibly the most technological innovation that's not a rumor ever? solar AI ebikes are here for $1899. create memes on the top-tube mounted display?
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Check out the Taken Encounter for a counter example; High pivot 4-bar CBF.
Quite the AI stuffed into this little whip.
Can you make aftermarket cable routing too?
Antisquat: I am inevitable
Crosswind is going to murder a geriatric and we're going to get another lawsuit.
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