Spotted: Norco's Aluminum High Pivot, Long-Travel Something?
There appears to be another long-travel Norco with a high main pivot about to be released, this one spotted on an Instagram post made by Norco Bicycles France yesterday at the Paris Expo (zoomed version below)
It's very different from the Aurum HSP, though, with a Horst Link suspension system rather than the downhill bike's high-single pivot layout and linkage to drive a low-slung shock. It also sure looks aluminum to me, and its Fox 38 fork and coil-sprung DHX2 make it obvious that it's no trail bike. Is this Norco's less pricey alternative to the carbon prototype that we saw earlier this summer? Or are we looking at the bike park version of the Aurum HSP?
Norco's 200mm-travel Aurum HSP downhill bike was released back in 2018 and uses a, you guessed it, high-single pivot suspension layout with a chain idler. Other brands have used similar designs previously, of course, and we've seen even more since, including yet another long-travel prototype that Norco definitely wasn't trying to hide.
When asked about the bike, Norco replied with the following: "Augment Legend: October 2020."
It's very different from the Aurum HSP, though, with a Horst Link suspension system rather than the downhill bike's high-single pivot layout and linkage to drive a low-slung shock. It also sure looks aluminum to me, and its Fox 38 fork and coil-sprung DHX2 make it obvious that it's no trail bike. Is this Norco's less pricey alternative to the carbon prototype that we saw earlier this summer? Or are we looking at the bike park version of the Aurum HSP?
Norco's 200mm-travel Aurum HSP downhill bike was released back in 2018 and uses a, you guessed it, high-single pivot suspension layout with a chain idler. Other brands have used similar designs previously, of course, and we've seen even more since, including yet another long-travel prototype that Norco definitely wasn't trying to hide.
When asked about the bike, Norco replied with the following: "Augment Legend: October 2020."
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This bike looks like the start of something (or the mainstreaming of it).
Context from way back in July:
www.vitalmtb.com/forums/The-Hub,2/2020-MTB-Tech-rumors-and-innovation,10797?exclusive_forum_user=false&page=34&utm_campaign=ForumTopicReply&utm_medium=email&utm_source=notification
Thought it was the range at first too.
But the beyond the HSP and long travel similarities, this bike looks wildly different (mostly shock location/orientation).
So its looking like this one is likely the Shore now that I think about it.
Most of them were, yes. But the one that won the Psychosis downhill event during CWX was not a Sight though. Most believe it was the new Range.
My comment above was stating that the frame seen at CWX that won the Psychosis DH event, is not the shore shown above.
This one.
www.pinkbike.com/news/spotted-is-this-a-new-norco-dh-bike.html
And the is under wraps on the podium, but it sure looks the same as the one in the link above.
www.pinkbike.com/news/results-psychosis-dh-crankworx-summer-series.html
The one Henry Fitzgerald won the event on.
You can see how the photo here looks wildly different than the bike this article was about (which turns out to have been the Norco Shore, as per its release today). When I say wildly different, I mostly mean the shock orientation/location.
ep1.pinkbike.org/p5pb19175748/p5pb19175748.jpg
The first link I posted above, thought it was a DH bike at first, but it seems like most people are now thinking its most likely the new Norco Range. I'll be very interested to see if the new Range supports the dual crown option like the Shore does.
Could still be an unreleased DH bike though.
i.ibb.co/F7PC7Kb/exitmodifiedcropped.jpg
Anyway..this is the bike, right?
www.mojekolo.cz/norco-shore-a-frame-silver-silver-27-5-l
Please make an AL Frame only option
www.jensonusa.com/Twofish-Quick-Cage-Adapter
@Afterschoolsports: I am the same way. But my 170mm bike does have a good mount.
@ybsurf: I don't have the luxury of riding in a park. Which means no lifts or rest areas. Which means fire road or transit trails back to the top.
A bottle cage is most certainly a welcome feature.
@ybsurf: Keep reading buddy
What technology do you want to demo most?
I want to try a high pivot bike.
Not really familiar as these type of problems have bean dealt with by our legal departmen, while I was mostly involved in trademarking the brands names.
I know that the suspension design, specifically, that susp. design cannot be patented but I thought that 'maybe', of the frame design was sufficiently different from others, maybe they could have done it. Anyway, at least, they have the custom geo on their side. Hopefully, it will be enough.
images.app.goo.gl/K1tAntEoVSco9uC97
I really wondering about the nasty picture quality...
The effective pivot location on the Norco photographed above looks like it might be lower than on those HSP bikes that have fully rearward axle path.
on their dh bike. not on a trail bike like forbidden did.