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Prototype Intense M9 - Lengths and weights

May 19, 2010
by Jordan Holmes  
Just doing some internet scouring and came across some more information on the Prototype Intense M9 race bike.

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Wheelbase = 47.5 inches
Chainstay Length = 17.5 inches
BB height = 14.5 inches
Headtube angle = 63.4 degrees

Lightest build up to date = 37.5 pounds

Here's a video of the CRC Intense guys from Maribor:
Team CRC/Intense at Maribor 2010

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95 Comments
  • 180
 Dope...
  • 2282
flag widebars23 (May 19, 2010 at 11:18) (Below Threshold)
 this bike looks sick! but still nothing better than demo 8! tup Beer
  • 1245
flag northumberlandrider (May 19, 2010 at 11:54) (Below Threshold)
 too true Big Grin
  • 837
flag raimundo (May 19, 2010 at 11:58) (Below Threshold)
 IS it me or does it look like a commençal??? Still dope!
  • 161
 14.5 BB? Almost an inch higher than the M6.
That's surprising
  • 112
 BB does look awful high for a race bike - lot of sag dialed into the suspension, maybe?
  • 42
 Yeah, that'd be my guess... Once you're on the bike it's probably way closer to 13". Sick looking ride for sure!
  • 1315
 V-10 much ?
  • 421
 Great, so you acquire information from dirt website (where they have gone to the work of actually find this stuff out), stick it on here and then don't even reference them. Nice one...
  • 140
 nickism - I was just about to write this exact comment. Poor journalism pinkbike. Other media outlets have also re-published this material, but they have cited dirtmag.com and Steve Jones.
  • 80
 looks nice, but then i think... was the 951 or m6 not good enough?
damn
  • 40
 Glad someone else picked up on that...

Here's the link

dirt.mpora.com/news/dirttv-world-cup-bike-weighin.html
  • 42
 I think M6 looks better, with the M9 it looks like they tried to save some weight. M6 FTW imo.
  • 42
 pinkbike - caught in the act of journalism fraud.
  • 55
 Easy there Ryan... I definately agree that they should've given Dirt their proper respect and credit but they did pretty clearly say in the first line that they pulled this info from the internet so nowhere have they commited fraud and tried to say that this was their own inside line on info. You calling them out for "fraud" is as bad or worse than them failing to mention Dirt...

Let's just call it a bad oversight and let it go already...
  • 65
 since I cracked my socom and saw many Intense broken, even the 951, I cant trust in this company anymore.
  • 13
 looks kinda sweet, not really digin the marzocchi specs, but maybe it wont be stock. i think id settle for a 951 instead, bb is high, =level with axle,
  • 40
 Keep in mind this is a 10" travel bike (like the M6, isn't it?)... so the BB is going to appear high because it's going to sit lower in it's travel. The V10's BB is even higher.
  • 10
 leroy brown - clearly a joke.
  • 11
 Sorry bro... totally missed it. Generally speaking, I actually have a pretty good sense of humor too, lol.
  • 10
 @rideracelive someone did broke a 951 (it's on mtbr) but it happened because of rider's fault not design or anything. It actually broke on a random spot on the top tube because of the immense pressure actuated by the crash. They're still legit imo. I mean, I'm thinking of getting one so no harm done.
  • 10
 nicely stolen from the Dirt TV weigh-in video Jordan
  • 91
 OMG Intense enough of the teasing already, after the World Cup, please release this bad boy. Don't bother watering the model down, we want the full on carnivorous Intense M9.
  • 30
 to all of you which are argueing if Santa Cruz or Intense is the inventor of the VPP Design. Both of them aren't, It was Outland Bikes, here is the Link: www.firstflightbikes.com/1998_Outland_VPP.htm
After they closed the doors Santa Cruz bought the patent about VPP an then they did some resarch thogether with Intense ( I belive) to put it on a higher level. So the first bike which came out was the first generation V-10 in 2001 or 2002
  • 31
 ok is it just me or did the M6 not look like the V10. all these comments make it seem like people have never noticed this...or the fact that intense has done VPP for a while now. some even said it looks like a Commencal...really? is that a joke? looks nothing like it. i would think this replaces the M6 because a 10'' travel bike is a bit overkill for most. also to loose weight.
  • 31
 Nice, a tad sleeker around the TT than my M6 but I will prolly stick with my 38lb M6 though 63.4 degree HTA is insane, someone needs to come out with 60 degree HTA for a monster truck laugh. Other reviews indicate it pops and airs better than the M6 but I've never had a problem manhandling my beauty (ooh err missus) at that build weight. Different when she was 43.5lbs !!!

And, hello dickwads yes it looks like a v10, d'yever think the M1 and M3 may have given SC an idea , who cares anyway M6/M9 is the dark side of the force bwehhhahhhaa.
  • 10
 headtubes supposedly adjustable 63.4 was just what the team was running that day.
  • 40
 I'm sorry to go against the trend here but visually I preferred the M6 by a long shot.
  • 10
 Laughing at the 'looks like a commencal' comments.

I thought Gee's commencal looked like the Intense watching the WC on Sunday. This is barely ANY different to the M6, main difference apart from technical tweaks is the 951 downtube. On the other hand, Commencal painted their bikes blue this season (From white last season) and put banded white decals on them (Like the 951 was intro'd with.

SO which looks like which?
  • 10
 quote "ollieF (12 hours ago)
They will both be titanium sprung, so why not?

because a Roco rear shock is heavier than say a fox RC or DHX, and then ad on a set of 888 forks which even though they are 2010 team models, will be heavy. marzocchi can't seems to make things light..
  • 10
 a great bike i'm sure but there are a few reasons that this thing would be pretty hopeless in the UK ( with the exception of fort william) because its just to much bike for the UK. A 951 would be a much better choice IMO and pretty soon (next year perhaps) intense are going to be bringing out are carbon DH bike, it's always about the next best thing for intense, which could be see as a good thing but maybe they should concentrate on current problems on the 951 and fix those. I have heard stories of the bike blowing through it's travel to quickly and weak frame strength and poor build quality, maybe if intense concentrated on eliminating these problems first it might be better for the mountain biking community
  • 30
 in other words you got that info off of the dirt mag video they just put up !
  • 30
 Gathered from DIRT's little video no doubt.
  • 12
 repositioned shock in a more horizontal position, higher bb (wtf??), G3 freackin' expensive drop outs, beeffier hidroformed tubbing (lets see if the 'cracking 951 welding' factor doesn't come along aswell) - different clothing, same shiat! Seems dope to me aswell, but expensive bling dope!
  • 11
 Parece a commençal
  • 20
 bowers... wronnggg, new 'zocchi 888's are light as hell, lighter than fox 40's.
  • 10
 distilledmag.files.wordpress.com/2008/02/ck_new_crc_m6_2.jpg ..... i think it looks almost exactly the same as the m6 o.O
  • 10
 Oh okay, I thought they said that the 951 was their new race bike but I guess not anymore..
  • 10
 HA! I thought this was funny.
www.pinkbike.com/photo/5070260
I would so rather have the Intense M9 over that thing.
  • 21
 I hear they are doing a carbon version!!.... ok, so I can't back that up at all Smile
  • 21
 yep it looks like the v10 ... but it is a nice bike i thik it will be perfect with boss fork and shock....
  • 21
 Yeah, and the M6 never looked like V10.....What planet are you all coming from?!
  • 10
 I think the M6 an M6 evo look better the 951 is a awesome looking bike what are they doing M9 bad looks!
  • 20
 my god at this rate intense will hit the M-37 in like 3 years
  • 20
 M3, M6, M9... M36 maybe, other than the M1, they seem to be upping by increments of '3'...
Too bad...
No (explosive) M-80!!!
  • 10
 very nice bike. starting to get same sort of layout as the santa cruz v10s. but still loving it
  • 10
 I wonder what the price is going to be?? is it going to ba as expensive as a 951 or is it going to be more than the M6??
  • 10
 @devorider1
Sanatacruz develop VPP and intense use it under santacruz licence. Of course m6/m9 look like v10
  • 21
 that think looks dialed, soo nice
  • 21
 Really beautiful bike!
  • 10
 i like dirt mag website better you could say its the original
  • 21
 i think it looks like a killer dh bike but to much like a v10
  • 21
 Pinkbike you gypo thieves!
  • 10
 looks like a santa cruz v10
  • 10
 37 pounds!!! thats like 2 pounds heavier than my reign xo
  • 10
 wow! 37 pounds thats crazy
  • 32
 I love this bike!!!Smile Smile
  • 12
 Wow, that's light (It'd be cool to see the spec's of that build). That's a nice and slack head angle too..
  • 10
 dirt in there world cup guide posted the spec of most bikes with some team info
  • 10
 how much travel?
  • 10
 ~8 or 9"?
  • 11
 Are they going to keep the 951? Maybe as the new socom or something
  • 21
 the 951 is the new socom, it was never ment to replace the m6
  • 11
 wow!!!
an INTENSE M9 VPP...
Smile
  • 10
 looks super clean!
  • 23
 as mentioned, it looks a lot like the v10 only santa cruz have moved on with a new model. intense living in the past?
  • 10
 Awsome bike
  • 10
 so sexy
  • 10
 Beauty Smile
  • 23
 it really looks like a v 10 to me
  • 10
 there is only so many ways you can use VPP linkage on a frame. this is especially with a high stroke frame. thats why Santa Cruz and Intense use the same frame layout on the M series and V10's since there isn't really another practical way.
  • 11
 POD? Anyone? Wink
  • 12
 wtf, u may aswell sell santa cruz v10 !
  • 11
 cool v10
  • 47
 To all Marzo haters - the 888 rc3 ti evo is THE lightest COIL fork you van buy!
  • 83
 no its not
  • 10
 They have a titanium spring and tapered stanchions and they are still just barely lighter than the boxxers and I mean by .01 lbs
  • 11
 You will find that Boxxer Race forks are actually about 120g lighter.
  • 20
 yeah but the marzo on this bike has High and low speed compression rebound and bottom out. The race does not. so a comparable coil sprung fork is just a tiny bit heavier but not enough to call a difference on 2g.
  • 10
 That is very true. It remains however that it is not the lightest coil sprung fork.
  • 10
 agreed.
  • 10
 yeah but the Boxxer Team has all the adjustments of the 888. there is a 40 gram difference between the Team and Race. The Team also comes with a steel spring so it would definitely beat the 888 in weight if you upgraded to a coil spring, and it would still probably be a few hundred dollars cheaper than the 888.
  • 10
 Lightweight does not a better fork make.
  • 13
 Just look at Boxxer WC...
  • 30
 that's not a COIL fork.
  • 35
 looks almost EXACTLY like the V-10, still nice but alittle copied
  • 13
 proped 1+
  • 20
 It looks like the m6... only a little different. I donno how everyone thinks all the bikes look the same. Intense tubing is really recognizable look near the headtube and at the links.
  • 10
 true enough but just the rear end looks quit a bit like the V-10, but i do agree that the head tube and around it looks different
  • 12
 V10-ish frame??
  • 13
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