First Look: Nukeproof Pulse DH Bike

 I think they are going for the 'spy shot ' effect .

 haha, looks like a mix of the new YT's and a tr450...

 moody hard as nails look!!!!! you wouldnt advertise a carbon zonda using bright light! why a bike! i like it!

 Saw the nukeproof team testing this at morzine yesterday, such a nice bike!

 Looks a little like YT's DH frame, but it is probably going to be double the price!

I'm getting the YT Tues once the 24-hour-madness (hopefully) returns in November. The amount of bling and ultra-high-end parts they are able to sell for under €3000 is just insane!

 Nobody knows what it means but its provacative, gets the crowd going.... seriously, it looks bad ass in all black with a black background, just enjoy it.

 saw them testing it at fortwilliam two weeks go

 This weekend i saw matthew simmonds testing in morzine this bike, allong whith other riders

 it's like that spinal tap album cover. i hope someone gets the reference...

 @kno0003 because batman.

 It's like, how much more black could this be? and the answer is none. None more black.

 They were riding these frames at the national champs at the weekend, I love the colours of matte and gloss black mixed together!!!!'

 I just bought a nukeproof scalp and i think the 2012 frame design is really nice looking. I remember them saying they didnt want to change the bike design because the CRC team loved the design. this also looks nothing like the tr450, the linkage/ pivots on a tr450 are inside the curved seat tube area, while this Nukeproof pulse has the pivots/linkage exposed.

 at a british round at fortbill i went up the gondola with a dude with a bike almost identical to this... its very similar to the scalp but just with an internal pivot. it other than that shaping and minor geometry changes its copyed. still a great bike

 fuck me thats one nice ride. nukeproof is always great prices too.

 You'd understand if you were a photographer its called thinking outside the circle, not everything has to be shot on white. you can still make the bike out its lit well

 Dude people were making single pivot , double triangle frames before the tr450 was even thought of.

 It's way different to a tr450.

 Ever thought that there is only a very few frame designs that are actually good/reliable/upto the job ?
And maybe that is the reason so many bikes look slightly similar ?

Look at mx/superbikes , nearly all the frames are identical these days , why ? Because they have found the ' perfect ' shape and design for the job so why make some thing looks 'radical/unique' just for the sake of it when you know two triangles are optimum ?

Example here tr450 and the scalp/pulse , triangle for a front end , triangle for the rear end , a nautrally strong and ridgid shape.
Why make it a figure of 8 connected to a zigzag when you know it's a comprimise ?

 My first though just seeing the picture was that it looked just like a TR450, but if you pull up the pics side by side its not really that similar. I think its that curved seat tube area by the shock that makes people think TR450 right off the bat.

 Well for the past 2 weeks I have been very injured , nearly broke my neck , got massive whiplash injurys and nerve damage in my right arm , so yeah I think riding my bike aint the smartest move in the world.
And for your info I get to ride around 24 hours a week when i'm fit and healthy , I live to ride , so maybe shut the f*ck up and get out and ride YOUR bike as you are lucky enough to do so .

Got any suggestions for things to do ?

 Would normaly be trail building too but this injury is stoping me from doing so.

 Looks like a trek.

 Love you to honey.

 It uses the same suspension design as the Scalp; just because they cleaned up the front triangle, suddenly it's a tr450 copy? It's just a progression of their current DH frame, and I for one, love it.

 Its a NUKEPROOF they make sick bikes now move on lol

 looks fast

 looks like a transition but the two companies have their own special tweeks here and there. Kind of like motocross bikes how they all have a similar frame and swing arm layout.

 yep me too haha !
Seen how cheap they are on CRC now ? think it's 1200 with CCDB less thena grand for the vivid one ! BARGAINS

 this is why.....

 yea got mine for 900... Hopefully they'll still produce all the bearings and stuff, wonder if this bike can be as reasonably priced as the Scalp, all the adjustments ect

 I think it will be otherwise it will lose part of what makes them special

 Ummmm....what?

 Getting so high tier? You do realize they were up there with the highest tier companies parts wise for many years. In fact, some of their parts were considered some of the highest tier stuff on the market at one point. Nuke Proof isn't new what so ever. They are one of the older companies on the block.

 Who cares wtf it looks like. It could look like Obama for all I care. Who really cares in the end. Only people who have no life, or are too caught up in the "fad world" focus on looks. Personally when I hear all these people bawk about looks like this, and looks like that, and this is ugly, or this looks good, I think 100% fudge packing castro district Homo.... or, those modern "hipsters" who try to be like homos, but are too stuck in the closet to openly admit they just are homo.

End of story.

 it does ...

 but better!

 Who said because they release a new frame, you need to replace your old one.
Who said because they release a new frame, this one would be better than the old one.
Who said because they release a new frame, you need to cry about them doing so.
It's called progression in the business arena. Have you ever owned a computer? You go out, buy the latest fastest I7 extreme, and in 6 months it's worth 1/50th of the value. You go out and buy a $70,000 car, and the minute you drive it off the lot it's worth 25% less. 6 months go by and it's worth another 25% less. A few years go buy an you realize that $70,000 car blues for 10-15k.

That's how the world works. Funny, is when people spent 3,500k on a bone stock computer back in the early 90's, they didn't bitch when it was worth almost nothing a few years later.

But anyways, not trying to be harsh, just sayin'.

 yeah, looks like a mix between the new tues and the tr450. i like the current frame better though. it looks more tidy and not that heavy.

 there should be a carbon tues 2.0 coming soon too!

 that will be coming this time next year

 tomOk joke? or fact?

 you can plainly see the welds???? clearly not carbon

 I dont see where anyone stated that it was carbon...

 a joke, but i would happily bet that a carbon frame will be coming very soon..

 Which people claimed was a rip off of a transition bottle rocket... People are dumb. People claim Ellsworths are the same as Konas just because they look similar despite the fact that the suspension works on a completely different concept. Looks can be deceiving.

 What really pisses them off is when you tell them that kona had that shape back in 1995.. And yes I know the suspension design is different , but extending the chain stay 30mm past the main pivot and attatching the shock to that is hardly ground braking

 and abp, if you ever ride a trek squish aggressive trail bike you'll notice how smooth the rear end feels, specially through rough terrain, while cornering and with the brakes applied. kona tried to eliminate brake jack by included a floating brake arm on some of their stinkys a few years ago.

 Orange copied the brake arm, but it never worked.

 trek and giant are "sister companies" very closely interlinked

 best news on this page!!!!

not that the bike is bad news, its just nice to see that you can pick up a good nice quality dh bike for so much cheaper

 It look like this www.yt-industries.com/shop/index.php?page=product&info=215 also

 @razor13. nah, the headtube is vaguely but not really...

 yea ONLY engineering/function stuff

 no they mean it's 17mm higher than last years I guess , think they put the wrong info in the chart . the last scalp has got a seriously low BB ,I hit my pedal so fking often !

 I think it's means the BB is 17mm above the axle line.

 That would make sense

 so that would roughly give it a 13.6" bb? is that how it's read?

 if it is 13.6 isnt that what the current scalp is ? I should know I own one , I know its 13 some something , looks like they might of made the same bike with square tubes

EDIT : ah the current scalp is 14" dead.

 don't they list the scalp as having a 14" bb?

 www.nukeproof.com/en/news/476-nukeproof-pulse-downhill-race-frame-launch

Some better pics with out black back grounds

 BB height measured from ground to BB center varies with the tires you run, as the diameter can vary. Better to list a BB height/drop that's in relation to the axle.

 ^^ what he said

 Tru but bb diameter makes no differance at all... But alloy... Wtf guys, looks sweet but I have the 2012 scalp and it looks sweet.. Need to go carbon if they want to keep up with the times...