Prototype Foes DH Bike and New AMX Hardtail Video Bike Check - Sea Otter 2010

Apr 26, 2010
by Mike Levy  
Foes was showing off two impressive new prototypes at this year's Sea Otter Classic, the new Fluid DH bike and AMX aggressive hardtail, as well as a new stem. Two videos and tons of pictures and information inside!

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Watch the video to learn more about the new Foes Fluid DH bike!
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Foes Fluid prototype

Foes Fluid details

• New DH bike from Foes
• 8" travel rear end
• Designed to be fitted with any rear shock you prefer that uses 3.5" of stroke
• Fits Curnett shocks by swapping out forward shock mount plates
• Low leverage linkage
• 12 x 150 mm rear axle spacing
• Replaceable ISCG mount
• 1.5" head tube
• Optional floating rear disc mount
• 14.125" BB height
• Chainstay length - 17"
• 65 degree head angle
• MSRP $2700 USD (depending on rear shock choice)

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Foes Fluid detail

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Watch the video to learn more about the new Foes AMX hardtail:

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Foes AMX hardtail

Foes AMX details

• New AMX hardtail for 2011
• Designed to be an all around heavy duty hardtail
• Works great with 160 mm travel forks
• Uses tapered headtube
• Triple, double, and single ring compatible
• Replaceable ISCG tabs
• Chainstay length - 16.5"
• Will be available in three sizes (small - 22" TT, medium - 23" TT, large - 24"TT)

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New Foes stem for 2011


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106 Comments
  • 16 2
 False. I think the Fluid is hideous. Looks like a fantastically high stand-over height, too.
  • 11 1
 as much of a foes fan as i am, this guy is right. lovin the hardtail though!
  • 4 1
 well that is why they call it a proto type.... so that they get it out there and then people comment on what they think should be changed and looked at then they take another look at it and do some tweaking
  • 2 0
 Well you heard brent foes put an emphasis on "stiff"... can't have high torsional stiffness without a large mainframe. But if everybody b*tches enough I'm sure they'll change it up. Word to they guy above me
  • 3 0
 Both bikes are ugly IMO. The hardtail looks like a frankenbike where they simply welded a spare piece of tubing where the shock should go.
  • 12 0
 haha at 1:03 in the fluid vid the guy is ridding backwards Razz
  • 1 1
 haha and i see my mom at 2:38! no joke
  • 8 3
 sooo this is what happens when you get drunk, draw a bike on a napkin then stuff it in your pocket, your so drunk you piss your pants then wash your pants find the napkin the next morning and decide to build a bike. neat.
  • 1 0
 waoh, somebody took the jelly out of your donut!
  • 3 0
 Metalmike is right, Foes is so far off the back of the curve with this monstrocity. I mean, how crappy can you make a bike look! VOMIT! And yeah, I prefer to rest my nuts in my chamois, not on my top tube. Looks like a garage made rebuild of a Karpiel Armageddon mixed with a KHS P.O.S.. WEAK!!! I used to ride a Fly in its badass days but Foes can hit the road these days!
  • 2 0
 Foes always looked to me like some small manufacturer of super cars like Saleen... I loved the massive red frames. But now it just goes bullocks! it does not look crappy, it just looks like someone tried really, reaaally hard... to do something different or new... I mean, as they looked at the computer screen even before they actualy started cutting tubes and welding up a prototype, haven't they noticed that something is just wrong?

And this small tube joining the upper pivot with the bottom bracket?! WTHell?! Hans I want you to spend two weeks hydroforming and shaping this top tube all the way to the pivot,
spend another month on trying to make it so it also supports the seat tube, then we will hire a spacecraft engineer Pedro von Haisen that will see if we can also incorporate a support for the shock in it without welds. After half a year of R&D: Boss you didn't explain how do we connect the pivot with bottom bracket! And its Sea Otter next week. Should we prolong the head tube as we already done som much strange and advanced things to it? No! Go to Janet from Marketing Department and borrow her Dildo!
  • 5 0
 looks ;like a real nutsmasher. why the high hump? most manufacturers are trying to increase standover.
  • 1 0
 Want that hard-tail. Lotta people don't like it whats not to like? can run any fork from 100mm to 160mm (alot of hard-tails are getting more suspension travel like Transition transAM can take a 160 Norco's shoreline alot of others). so you have a whole range from trail riding to dj's, and the 160mm would be perfect for some North Shore aggressive trail riding.But ditto on that price thats hella steep, would rather buy a Norco Manik or squatch.
  • 2 0
 is it just me, or can anyone already hear the rear triangle of the amx snapping? looks so unrigid, like the were thinking of making it a ss bike and said,"f*ck it, just weld the rear triangle on and be done with it"
  • 1 0
 they should call it the swamp thing... then huck in the swamp it sits by and start over again. just kidding .. these people have never made an attractive bike that i have seen and they are still here so they must be catering to somebody...
  • 2 0
 personally, i love the look of it. Yeah, it does remind me of the jackel, but hardtails shouldnt have that high of a standover. But for a FS downhill bike, im lovin it.
  • 1 0
 Has anyone else noticed that its either:
a) NOT 2:1 ratio and it IS 8" travel
OR
b) it IS 2:1 ratio but only has 7" travel due to an 8" stroke shock.

I may not be a mathematician, but I know that 3.5" x 2 is not 8"!
  • 1 0
 If you listen real carefully, he says its a 2.2857:1 ratio.
Yielding 8" of travel from a 3.5" stroke shock.
  • 1 0
 Cool, thanks. I'm just surprised at the move away from their 2:1 as they swore it was the best thing since sliced bread. Ah well.
  • 3 0
 congrats to the interviewer! he asks the right questions!
  • 1 0
 Wow, standover is soo crazy, why can't anyone make a dh bike with good standover, well it's back to jerk chicken and red stripe again.
  • 1 0
 the fluid is just Meh like everyone is saying its a offspring from the stab and v10 i agree with those dudes probs rides great though
  • 3 0
 The fluid looks like a cross between the V-10 and the Intense 951
  • 4 1
 i just barfed in my mouth...
  • 4 1
 i just read Remedy651's comment, i'm still laughing, best description yet.
  • 2 0
 That new Dh bike is a huge FAIL for me.. its hideous! But the amx hardtail looks very nice!!
  • 1 0
 I love it, looks f-ing mean, but that nut-cracker top-tube looks scary. Not that hitting my TT has ever been a problem, just LOOKS dangerous!
  • 4 1
 the dh bike is uggly
  • 4 4
 Foes needs to realize that people dont want 160mm travel on a hardtail. Most people would crop a 36 to 100-80mm of travel on a HT. Consumer observation fail.
  • 3 0
 and that people aren't down to pay that much for a hardtail...common, ellsworth hardtails aren't even that much
  • 2 1
 These guys used to be pioneers of DH in the 90's. They are so far off the back that box-store brands like GT and Mongoose make sicker, more affordable DH rigs. BOOOOOO!
  • 1 0
 if any of you put a leg over one of those youd dump your specialized forever
  • 2 0
 That fluid is sure one but ugly bike.
  • 2 2
 8" travel sure, but vertical or horizontal, id like to see a compression on the back shock.
Still a Very. Very. Very nice looking bike.
  • 2 0
 That hardtail looks pretty sick though
  • 3 1
 YUCK, reminds me of that ridiculously ugly KHS with the weird top tube.
  • 1 0
 im with u dude, so gross
  • 3 2
 you guys sound like a bunch of chicks.
  • 3 1
 that is probly the ugliest dh bike i have ever seen
  • 1 0
 I just hope they figured out how to make a quiet bike, my old 2:1 mono sounded like an empty beer can rattling around
  • 2 1
 That Fluid DH is ugly. I can apreciate what they are trying to do but I dont like the looks at all
  • 1 0
 Did you guys notice how steep the HT in the HA is in comparison with the FS one?
  • 3 0
 FUGLY
  • 1 0
 My nuts hurt already, nope it's a fail; go back to AutoCad school! get rid of the hunch back!
  • 1 0
 Looks like they had to make the top tube that high to accomodate the ability to swap in both long stroke shock styles.
  • 1 0
 I think they got a little carried away with the hydro forming on the fluid. The hardtail looks pretty badass though.
  • 1 0
 awe i love every foes bike but not this one looks like it has a tumor i dont know
  • 1 1
 Could you dh race with that hardtail? I havn't seen much info on the internet about hardtail downhill racing.
  • 2 0
 I DH'd on a Norco wolverine (Don't recommend it), but there was a guy at our local races on a Norco Sasquatch and was running times with the Elite men.
  • 2 0
 Dude I've DH'd on a Wolverine too, for the full day, my knees were killing me the day after
  • 2 0
 ya some my friends use to ride hardtails but all of them just got fulls and it was pretty funny cause some times they won a race and everyone else just looked really sad and mad. they rode brodie Cretin another rode a kona shred
  • 2 1
 Fugly, & fugly!! Stems look OK though.
  • 1 0
 this bike is definitely a nutcracker...
  • 1 0
 The fluid is one fugly bike.
  • 1 0
 looks like a flying machine!
  • 1 0
 puta que pariu, que bici bem feia essa fluid...
  • 1 0
 OMG the Fluid is so GORGEOUS....one thing...the front triangleFrown
  • 2 0
 thats not a triangle. that is a... wtf is that!?
  • 2 2
 I would cheerfully trade in my earliest of sexual expierences for a ride on that beauty.
  • 1 1
 I think you ex just neg propped you.
  • 2 2
 I hope FOES reads all these comments and scraps the design, or completely over-hauls it. better yet, give up.
  • 1 0
 tig welds look mint the hardtail is sick, but that dh bike is ugly
  • 1 0
 the dh bike looks like a nomad
  • 1 0
 Somewhat V10ish look alike.
  • 1 1
 wow £800-£700 for the amx thats alot of money
  • 2 1
 PRIME
  • 2 2
 and who gives a damn what it looks like it about functionality
  • 2 0
 You must hate most new products on the market.
  • 3 0
 how bout a bike that looks clean and nut friendly that is functional? new glory looks clean is a great ride, 951 nice low slung lines and sticks to the ground, sessions, yeti 303dhr(orwhatever letters are), Demo 8, Evil Revolt, new Tranny 450... want me to go on?? I dunno mang, I don't want this to turn into a pinkbike flame war but... i suppose to each is his own but i see the group of racers and riders being into this may be a small crowd and not the numbers foes needs to consider production. just looks like it would be absolutely a miserable pig to swing a leg over. I think Foes is without a doubt capable of making a far better product then what they got going on here. fin.
  • 1 1
 looks like the days if the Freeride hardtail is coming back...
  • 1 0
 that is soooooo nice!
  • 3 2
 those are so sick !!
  • 1 0
 but still sick bike
  • 1 1
 ill probably wind up buying one as i usually do with new Foes frames
  • 1 1
 I did not know that Notredam hump was in Sea Otter.
  • 1 2
 It looks like an imitation of the Santa Cruz V10.
  • 2 1
 but more awkward!
  • 1 2
 so true
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