It was not easy to make this decision. After hours spent reading came hours of discussion, which resulted in picking the Top Ten. Now we want to present you the winner.
We were searching for a name that would fit the character and application of this frame. We were searching for associations with the freedom of shredding down the mountains and touching nature.
Maciek Hojnor riding new FR frame prototype
For each one of us, those riding bikes, different words have different meanings. Many times, the meaning of a word is a sum of one’s life experience and personal character. For all of us this meaning will be definitely influenced by the hundreds of miles spent on the trails.
Sometimes we celebrate the freedom of choice when picking the right track or enjoy how the wind is blowing in our backs. Sometimes riding is a cure helping us to recover after a hard week at work, and soon becomes our addiction. Sometimes riding helps us to hear the primal call of the nature and come back to the roots as far as possible from the city jungle.
We want our new frame to help riding like that. We know the decision we made will not please everyone. But this is our choice and we hope that you can respect this. The winning name is
ROOTS and the first one who posted this name and won the prize is
Gmancool99 from Scotland.
Congratulations from Pinkbike and Dartmoor-Bikes! The Wish Pro complete bike will be sent to the winner before and of April.
The meaning of
ROOTS for us sounds like getting back to nature. With mountain tracks full of roots. With woods and big trees drawing their strength from their roots. That is the place where we want to meet you. No matter if you will come there with a new Dartmoor Roots frame or any other bike. The most important is that we are all the part of the
mountain biking world.
Ride Your Way!Early prototype on the track
Assembling one of the early prototypes with standard down tube
Dartmoor Roots frame with hydroformed down tube ...
... and how it will look assembled in the bike
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In Aussie land, rooting someone is a coliquilaism for shagging.
Kinda a dirty name now that I think of it...
Enjoy the sex machine Gman
I was in the running with Shiva.
Enjoy your new bike
Really stoked for the guy
It certainly resembles my Nomad, in a large way!
'Roots', by Alex Haley, was a very popular and powerful novel and later TV mini-series exploring the origins of his own family's "roots" in a terrible time in US and world history. Many literate folks 'of a certain age' were deeply affected by this as this era in history was all too often glossed over in education curricula. Just to bring it full circle, ready for it.... turns out Alex Haley had Scottish roots...
www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/culturenews/4885075/DNA-proves-author-Alex-Haley-had-Scottish-roots.html
How often, truth is stranger, and better, than fiction....
Now to get my root down...
youtu.be/F_6IjeprfEs
Kunta, Kunta Kinte!
::whipcrack::
Your name is Toby!"
Sorry, it's all I can think of when I hear of this bike's name...
"Hey man, what do you ride?"
"A Roots." ???
Something to think about. Anyway, congrats to the winner. Enjoy the hell out of your new bike!
Hey guys next bike you create I got this, we'll call it "blah"
enjoy ur new ride
wait why does it have a dual crown? this looks like a slope ride.