An unreleased full suspension prototype bike has been spotted in a bike park near Biel, just 20km from the headquarters of Swiss brand BMC.
The bike was spotted by a local rider and then shared with the Instagram page,
the European Bike Project. The only other frame brand located in the area are
Bold however we can't see them deviating from their concealed shock design, which leads us to speculate that the bike belongs to BMC.
| A longtime follower sent me these photos which he took in the Magglingen cablecar in Biel, Switzerland. He talked to the owner of this unmarked bike who confirmed that you can't buy it yet. My source says that the bike seems to use a dual-link suspension design and that it looks like mix of Unno and Mondraker. I'm sorry I don't have any other information at the moment, neither on the brand nor on the manufacturing location.
However, I can confirm that there is definitely no review dropping tomorrow - at least not on this channel—European Bike Project |
If it is a bike from BMC then it's a clear departure from their current designs. Previous BMC bikes including the
Fourstroke and
Trailfox Amp used a system called APS (Advanced Pivot System), a short link system with the shock oriented vertically. This prototype bike still looks like it uses a short link design, however now the shock is mounted horizontally and low slung. It's tough to tell details such as wheel size or travel from these photos but we have noticed that the longest travel, non-electric bike the brand currently sells is 120mm (Fourstroke LT and Speedfox), which leaves plenty of room for something with a burlier attitude in its range.
Further details are thin on the ground at the moment but BMC said, "At this stage, we can only confirm that we are busy working on something new. We’ll for sure keep you informed when the right time comes."
I bet it's a Specialized! They have their electric development department in switzerland.
Maybe the new stumpy we are looking at?
chainstay protector screams sbc
No SWAT box could just mean that they did not bother with it on this mule.
That means nothing. No actual Specialized bike has this kind of top to seat tube junction andalso no covered bearings while BMC has exactly that. But the managed to fool the internet by mounting a few Spesh bit distracting from the essentials.
Yeah, it’s about time they dumped that FSR stuff...
"It's called overspreading, probably starts full hd"
I feel like I should report this comment
Interestingly, my 13 year old son is into biking and inherited her aesthetic memory. We can be with a group of 20 riders, and he'll identify everyone based on the bike they were riding. I might notice someone who is on a distinct bike, but I would tend to say "the dude on the Santa Cruz" whereas my son would then say, "The nomad or the tallboy? The one with the Pike or the one with the 38?" And he doesn't really understand that other people don't have the same visual memory.
I loved my BMC trailfox (after a 1.5 degree angleset adjuster)
or
The next generation of "looks like a session"
So we are fine with everything looking like a session? But because this low slung shock mounting system, lets say was put into the mainstream via Santa Cruz we can't call it a Santa Cruz look a like? Due to the discounting of previous bikes who employ this set up.
Groundbreaking sh!t here.