that is for sure a new bike by looking at the cable ports at the headtube as they are clamped unlike the current sb150 and the linkage (not SI) looks mounted slightly higher than the current sb150 as well but just could be me.
Rear triangle where it heads towards the shock from the bottom bracket area looks to have a much more swooping shape, unless it’s just camera angle and compressed suspension.
just browsing the pivot website, looking through their suspension guide I think they let the cat out of the bag for the firebird 29 rear shock. Current model is 230x65 standard eyelet, Seems the new one is 205x65 trunnion which by rights means a 29 inch Mach 6 lookalike I presume.
In my opinion, the social (esp IG) influencer personality and content has a shelf life. People are going to catch on to how disingenuous it is, and it’s going to become more and more transparent how ‘advertisey’ it is. When we make a move to work with someone of any stature, be it mega pro to local ripper / good person their social reach is far from a metric we place value on. It might seem ridiculous but we place human contact and interaction value so far beyond any social bs. I find it a shame that so many companies...
It is in Bellingham, but we will have to keep this trail name and location off the interwebs. Come to town, stop by the HQ, drink a beer, and I bet you will get some beta on how to get to this flowy loam track we have tucked away.