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 Schwalbe have been playing with their tyre range recently. You can decide what you find more interesting here, the fact that these are 27.5" tyres, or that this is, more or less, the tread pattern their World Cup racers will be running next year and that you won't be able to get your hands on until 2014. |
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| That's not just any dust on Pierre Edouard-Ferry's Commencal Supreme, that's the rarified dust of Virgin Utah, fresh from the Rampage. |
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| Caminade are small, new French brand and they had this their One-For-All on their stand. The name, One-For-All is a bad pun on the fact it has 140mm or so of travel. The frame is made from Reynold 853 steel, which allowed them to create the distinctive lines. We do like the way they have built it too - single ring, big bars, drop post, it looks like a lot of fun. What we don't like is the fact that they wouldn't let us take proper side photo of it, in case someone stole their kinematics... |
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| Anne-Caroline Chausson is here racing anything and everything this weekend, we wouldn't mind betting she was winning too. With her was her Trans-Provence-winning Ibis Mojo HD enduro race bike. |
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| The Forward Geometry on next year's Mondrakers has sparked a lot of debate. This is what the 2013 Sumnum will look like, the top tube is 3cm longer to compensate for the zero-reach stem. Only time on the trail and riders' feedback will say whether this is the future or just an interesting experiment. |
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| There's something about a raw frame that just catches your eye. Exprezo had this 145mm frame to hand and metal connoisseurs will spot that it has an aluminium front end and a steel rear. |
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| Merida isn't a name you hear too often here on Pinkbike, they may be the second largest bike company in the world, but they have traditionally stayed away from the gravity side of thing. That is until now, they are very keen on enduro and are launching the One-Sixty (that's how much travel it has) - this is the same bike Ralph Naf smashed to fifth in the Trans Provence this year. There are some nice details in here too, like the Reverb Stealth. It looks a lot like they thought about what they wanted from this bike and have put together a strong spec (if they ditched the 2 x 10, it'd more or less be a race-ready enduro bike). |
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| Rockrider is a name you have heard here on Pinkbike more often, usually from European riders laughing at them... They are Decathlon's in-house brand and have been churning out low-end bikes for years now, but they have decided to move up the market. This Dropline is their new downhill bike and the detail you need to know is that it will cost 2,500 Euros. Looking over the spec, it has everything you would want from an entry downhill bike - downhill tyres, big brakes and chainguide. There's nothing on here you'd need to change before you could go and point it down something ugly and for that price it's great value too. They won't be selling them in Decathlon stores, at least not for now, you'll have to go online to get your hands on one. |
But yeah, it's unfair to say that they haven't done many "gravity" bikes, they just use UMF brand for that...About Us
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