Cane Creek Celebrates Valentine's Day With a Limited Edition Hot Pink Helm MKII

Feb 14, 2022
by Cane Creek  

Helm MKII Limited Edition
Hand-Built In Western North Carolina

Press Release: Cane Creek Cycling Components

Cane Creek is excited to announce a new Limited Edition Hot Pink Helm MKII fork to celebrate this year’s Valentine's Day.

Quantities extremely limited - The Limited Edition Hot Pink Helm MKII is only available in our 29-inch wheel | 44mm offset platform with Cane Creek’s travel adjustable air spring pre-set at 160mm travel. For this special Valentine's Day run, the bolt-on Helm Fender is included and unique holographic decals come installed.



All of Cane Creek's Helm forks are designed with modularity in mind, requiring only 10mm spacers to be used to change travel on any Helm AIR fork. The tunable independent positive and negative air chambers - along with the self-contained indexed volume adjustment system allows any rider to set up their fork for whatever their personal style or the trail requires.

All Helm MKII Air forks can be internally adjusted from 100mm-160mm in 10mm increments.

TECH SPECS
Weight
-2080 grams
Damping
-High Speed Compression, Low Speed Compression, Low Speed Rebound
Adjustments
-High speed compression (10 positions)
-Low speed compression (17 positions)
-Low speed rebound (10 positions)
-Indexed travel adjustment system (8 positions)
Travel
- Optimized for 130-160mm of travel. Travel is internally adjustable with 10mm increments (160mm down to 130mm). No additional parts required
Spring
- Double-Air spring system. High volume positive and negative air spring.
Damper Oil
- Motorex 4wt
Min. Brake Rotor Size
-180mm. *If you are using a Hope Tech brake on a Helm fork, you will need to use a 200mm rotor with appropriate adapter.
Spacing - Offset
-"D-Loc" 15mm Bolt-on thru axle 15mm x 110 BOOST spacing / 44mm offset
Max Tire Size
64mm wide by 749mm tall (29) / 75mm wide by 739mm tall (27.5+)


Availability
Like all Helm forks, Helm MKII Hot Pink forks will be built to order by hand in our facility in North Carolina. Very limited quantities available through Cane Creek retailers, distributors or factory-direct in North America through www.canecreek.com Expected ship date of March 2022.

MENTIONS: @CaneCreekCyclingComponents

Cane Creek Cycling Components - Hot Pink Helm MKII



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74 Comments

  • 166 2
 i need to ask my wife's boyfriend to gift it to me
  • 70 1
 Funny, my wife's boyfriend asked if I could buy him one.
  • 2 1
 you need the little stanchions
  • 12 0
 @enis: even funnier, my girlfriends husband asked if i could buy him one!
  • 3 0
 Nothin like some new hot pink on Vday!
  • 1 0
 @quesoquesoqueso: I don't care if nobody else got it, I loved it XD
  • 111 0
 Hope I'll be able to get it for 91$ on the cane creek store.
  • 52 0
 This would be great on the Grim Donut!
  • 12 0
 With sprinkle!
  • 4 6
 Or if it was a Pike...
  • 48 0
 @TimRidesBikes: Sorry, buit a Pink Pike is a Salmon.
  • 5 4
 @TimRidesBikes: I'll take a Helm over a Pike any day.
  • 40 0
 Look what I got you honey, oh you have an xc bike, whoops guess I'll have to put this on my bike, darn.
  • 5 1
 Slip it into your sidepieces pink stumper my bruther *muscle arm emoji*
  • 18 4
 I need this in my life. Hands down my favorite fork
  • 9 2
 Why’s that, island boaï(?)
  • 5 0
 @EvoRidge: just tryna make it
  • 1 0
 As soon as I saw this fork I thought: can wait to see this on the channel.
  • 2 0
 @Klimbnbike: unfortunately it's not in my budget at this time and i won't be able to get one. Its a beauty though.
  • 13 1
 I wonder who assembles forks in *eastern* North Carolina that made them feel it necessary to clarify...
  • 6 0
 Pink because Western uses ketchup
  • 2 0
 ha
  • 3 0
 you get em. they really wanted to say pizz gah
  • 2 0
 It's actually in the South East part of Western North Carolina.
  • 1 0
 @suspended-flesh: yep
  • 8 0
 I'm not a good enough rider to warrant this purchase, my wallet thanks me for that too.
  • 9 0
 Just need a baby blue specialized SX trail and we can recreate a classic
  • 2 0
 I'm Claw'ing at the bit to buy one now.
  • 10 7
 Like most valentine's gifts... Rather expensive and very contrived.

They could have literally just said... Hot pink fork limited edition because hot pink is f*ckin rad. Why would someone order a hot pink for for valentines day... On valentines day... To get it more than a month later... As a valentines day purchase.

These marketing posts gettin awkward, bud. Take about 10% off er there...
  • 12 5
 Dang bro... it will be ok. Show me on the doll where Valentines Day hurt you.
  • 10 7
 @JudyYellow: Valentine's Day is fine. But I went to the market today to grab things for dinner tonight and there were these small things of chocolate covered strawberries that looked really good... For $25. I'd have really liked to get them for the lady but I've been financially struggling since covid. I might pitch just buying strawberries and getting dipping chocolate to her, but I was ashamed to not be able to get her a nice v-day gift all wrapped and pretty.

Project on me all you want. Valentine's Day isn't the problem. But inflation and the crippling cost of living, particularly after Covid, has got me down.

If that's not okay with you then feel free to shit on me some more to improve the current state of the world. Your service is appreciated.
  • 4 0
 if only fletcher was a bit more northerly so they could say it is hand-built in north western north carolina
  • 5 1
 How do I enter the giveaway?
  • 5 1
 I can celebrate it like this with a $5 can of paint.
  • 2 0
 m.pinkbike.com/news/now-that-was-a-bike-cedric-gracias-cannondale-gemini.html

^ Early 2000s Cedric Gracia would’ve ridden this for sure
  • 4 3
 Ive got an NFT of someone riding a much better fork if yer interested and i tell ya imo it definitely looks better, waaay better
So ya interested Joker
  • 4 1
 locals will know this better as the "downtown Asheville Edition"
  • 2 0
 Aha!
  • 3 0
 Would fit amazing on my lime green bike
  • 3 4
 I never understand the custom fork/limited edition craze like when fox released the pistachio, root beer, battleship etc. You can either wrap your current fork or when you need to do a 100 hour take it apart and powder coat it or paint it. I do a vinyl wrap on every fork I buy, it cost me $50 and I have enough for two forks.
  • 2 0
 who makes the best 160mm fork these days?
  • 5 1
 definitely suntour
  • 12 1
 @MuddyFoxCourierComp: scroll up.
  • 12 0
 There was a dude in the comments above that said DVO makes the best fork because he saw a video of someone else ripping on one. So it must be DVO.
  • 7 1
 well considering people who race that dont have a suspension contract always buy FOX, id say its suntour for sure.
  • 2 1
 i ran Rockshox for years on different bikes, due to financial reasons...and i always had set up problems, i changed to FOX on my latest MTB and it is night and day, best suspension i've ever had, my idea of Fox was that people liked it just because of the name and the foxtail stickers, but boy was i wrong.
  • 2 1
 Manitou Mezzer 100%
  • 1 0
 Stratos FR5
  • 3 0
 frick that's hawt
  • 2 0
 Boring nothing new they already had it as a limited production
  • 2 0
 I'm mixed on the color but the Helm II is a badass fork.
  • 1 1
 When limited product looks like the cheapest option on the market. I'd appreciate some custom graphics etc, not just pinky dip.
  • 1 1
 How can I secretly install this on the bike of my secret love just in time for Valentines Day? The days of just sending an anonymous postcard were so much easier.
  • 1 0
 We snagged one. It arrived today and it’s on the fluorescent side of pink!
  • 2 0
 HOT
  • 3 5
 I´m willing to bet that you could find or make a pink wrap like this, then just put it on a normal helm or even another similar fork for 10% the price! I like the fork though, cool theme.
  • 12 0
 Appears to be listed at the same price as the stock HELM on their site, so not going to save anything going the DIY route on this one......
  • 1 5
flag charlesnunez (Feb 14, 2022 at 9:04) (Below Threshold)
 @natefield: but you could do it to a cheap Suntour or rock shocks, and it could look legit. I´m not sure, it wouldn´t be very honest.
  • 1 0
 vinyl wrap is the option
  • 1 0
 I saw someone with one of these pink forks a while back. It looked sick.
  • 1 0
 Does it come with a baggie of the rainbow pills ? SOLD
  • 1 0
 Wants in 26!
  • 1 0
 Awesome fork
  • 1 0
 No go for 29”
  • 2 4
 Will look siick on my #Ebike.
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