PIT BITS - 2025 Andorra World Cup Downhill 22

Race prep for a weekend in Andorra.

sspomer
7/9/2025 6:26pm
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Back-to-back World Cup DH weekends don't necessarily mean the same bikes just roll up to the next race. In this edition of PIT BITS, Rick Schubert spies a new frame from Mondraker and plenty of refinements from a variety of teams looking to cash in every thousandth of a second. Dig in!

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Mondraker prototype that looks refined with some additional bolts in front of the cranks. Weights?
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Bernard coming in hot and in need of a wash.
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Lots of loosening up after a hectic few weeks.
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The glamorous life of the road.
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YT mechanic making sure everything is aligned.
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Pre-race cocktail or brake bleed?

 

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We all know Jackson barely uses them, so the bleed isn't too crucial.
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Local Andorran cuisine?
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Kief-dawg is lighting it up lately.

 

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RaggedEdge
10 months ago

That Fox fork shot is one of the coolest I have seen in a while

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StudBeefpile
10 months ago

Jacksons grips are interesting.  I dont think I'd like a bulge right in the middle of my grip but who knows. 

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AndehM
10 months ago

Anyone recognize what they are?  They don't appear to be either ODI Elite Pro or Ergon GDH, although similar to both with the palm bulge, half waffle underneath, but a very cushioned mushroom end.

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Fahzure
10 months ago

That Mondraker DT weld might as well be JB.

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fartsack
10 months ago

1. Love the screw paints, makes every bike look faster! 😍

2.Kerr is such a schmock. 🤢

3. Not every name needs to be butchered with dog/dawg

4. Jacksons handlebar roll is crazy

5. Love pit bits

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thejake
10 months ago

The handle bar roll his crazy.  Anyone have other pictures of it? That pic is a little odd, looks extreme on the one side but closer to normal on the other.  Would be cool to see a side by side of a “standard” set up. 

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Primoz
10 months ago

Just dialing out vertical compliance and dialing in some steering dampening. Or maybe adding fore-aft compliance? 

I joke, but seriously, the way OneUp bars are made, rolling them substantially out of axis should negate most of the benefits of the construction and move it to another plane. Not exactly giving steering compliance (steering torques are low anyway), but you can genuinely get some fore-aft compliance. Which in some cases I found beneficial (need to grip the bars a bit less than with a very stiff handlebar). 

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AndrewLee
10 months ago

What’s up with that weld on the mondraker Dt/Ht junction. That’s shits embarrassing 

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Blake_Motley
10 months ago

Looks like the BB on that Mondraker is removable, are they putting a gearbox in that thing? Or are they pulling an Orbea and a motor goes in there 

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sspomer
10 months ago

it's been that way for the last year or more - able to adjust angles etc. this is a cleaner version and now has the "gravy boat" area with some other things going on.

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Ryan Burney
10 months ago

Bolt-in ballast weights seem like a solid guess. Good spot for them, easy win. Why not? I doubt it’s for stiffness though. Those forgings are pretty burly, and adding a brace there wouldn’t change frame stiffness all that much. Plus the lower link pivot is already acting as a good brace. Technically possible, but probably not the intent.

Could just be there to hold a cover. Maybe to cap off the gravy boat for full gravy-like mud conditions?

What I’m more curious about is the bolt on the headtube and the one on the non-drive leg around the shock. Accelerometer mounts? Mass damper? 🤷

All the metal bits look forged (beside the printed RT brace and BB location adjust-ma-jig), so it's production tooling. It’s a good-looking bike. I’m guessing the replaceable BB and removable rear triangle brace will make it to production, which would be sweet. Ride height is tough to tune with just flip chips since you often end up tweaking geo and suspension at the same time. Riders can have pretty different preferences on BB drop, so being able to swap ride height independently is a smart move. But idk! It'll be fun to find out.

Dak, if you're reading this, login with a fake account and make your best "guess"

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Fred_Pop
10 months ago

Hope those new Schwalbe tyres come out soon😍

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bizutch
10 months ago

That Giant paint scheme with the lines of that bike really grow on ya. Like if Terminator 2 got put in the TRON movie.