Spy Shots: Cube Rolls Out New 29er at Finale Ligure EWS

 I second this

 It looks like it's a vinyl decal actually, but I agree that most companies' "prototype" color schemes often look better than their production offerings.

 Yeah looks sick!

 Could you please describe the color of this paint as I am only able to see in grey scale so I am assuming it is black and grey types of colors?

 @IamTheDogEzra: Looks exactly like you see it, just black / grey except the blue stripe on the water bottle.

 The finish is bad ass but wtf is going on with the cranks? Looks like they figured out a way to put two chainrings on there? Nuts!

 "Prototype" name is shit... its the f*cking 2019 new cube...!! Stop this madness

 @IamTheDogEzra: It smells like fresh rubber and chain lube.

 sh*tty stickering job, lol

 @IamTheDogEzra: It's a vibrant rainbow kaleidoscope highlighted by pink anodized hardware throughout the bike with a blacked out Fox fork.

 it looks like a taller Devinci Troy...wow sooo creative

 Minecraft Black!

 @RedBurn: 2019? We don't even know if 2019 is going to happen ffs.

@maxlombardy: double chainring is the new bottle cage. I'll have one with a 20/34. Ta.

 @seraph: I've always thought that all high-end model offerings should come with custom paint work. Paint work that the purchaser chooses or paint scheme. Who wants to spend that kind of money on a high-end top-end model and show up at the trail and see someone else on the exact same bike.

 I mean, if you wanted to make a bike inconspicuous you'd just paint it black right? No one would look twice. No one. Even if you paid them. Or gave them beer. Or told them straight up that this was the latest Cube...

...oh hang on...they had to pretend it was worth hiding it to make it interesting to even put on PB...

 Iwana (sic) call this paint job #TheTrump, cos the whole thing is just a big shouty distraction tactic from the fact that there's nothing meaningful happening!

#LooksLikeSomeonePukedDigitalCamoOnASession...

 SPY SHOTS!!! Man caught in secret posing with brand new bike with unridden tyres...

 Okay fourth and final post:

I just watched the Martyn Ashton video which was awesome and very real. This is neither awesome nor real. The contrast leaves me feeling empty and a bit sick. Hence rants.

 "paint job" actually looks like a full vinyl decal wrap if you look close.
I wonder how much weight that added, and it brings to question whether or not they can actually pull of those graphics in a production run. Not hating at all, think it's pretty cool bike/I like the looks of it a lot.

 And ditch the orange fork!

 @valhallascott: That is correct. The fork is also orange, but the bike itself is just a series of different colors of grey / black.

 @jrocksdh: I agree. Eye catching, but horrid.

 The massive bottom bracket is to eventually hide the inevitable e-battery.

 @properp: Put a sticker on your frame, fav grips and pedals. Done.

 @properp: See Orbea

 @jefftrancex1xtr: comedy tyre selection...

 If it rides like my slash...no thanks. Same same same

 #shillpill

 Don't be silly. This is top secret stuff, photographed by an anonymous photographer using miniature equipment. PB style, that is. You see the height these pictures were taken from? So Ross Bell sneaks up to the Cube tent before the crack of... ehrm... coffee break. Then when no one is watching, he opens the zipper, out comes the 200mm lens of the Canon EOS 5D mark IV camera. A couple of quick shots and off he goes a again. The casual viewer may have thought he got merely excited.

 Just look closely at the chain rings. A clue: You can't buy those yet

 We have already reached s point where bike marketing resembles the marketing of the auto-industrial complex. Now we get the teasers, the "spy shots" and the busy monochromatic camo paint finishes that supposedly thwart design theft.

Zzzz zzz. Boring shill. I thought mountain biking was better than this.

 Fast vs fun, yes, that's it

 Here's me thinking 29er hating went out in 2015. #growup

 I would love to ride with a front mech but the chain come off too often, somebody knows how to prevent that?

 @Fribour: I used to ride with a front mech (22t, 32t and bash guard) until summer 2016 or so. I actually quit using the granny half a year or so before that to check whether I'd miss it . The reason I quit using the front mech actually was that I wanted to run an oval (32t) front ring and these don't work with a front mech. I think the reason the front mech got so much hate is because people tried to run it with a trigger shifter. That doesn't work, you can never get it in the right position. Use a grip shift for the front mech instead. It gives you nine positions so you can always make the chain shift and you can also always make sure that it doesn't rub. This means that you'll sometimes adjust the front mech one click if you shift a long stretch through the cassette. Greg uses electronic shifting and I'm not sure whether that one automatically adjusts the front mech. I expect it does. So yeah, on the hardtail (I ride most of the time) I don't run a front mech anymore but on the fully I still run one with grip shift for the front and trigger for the rear mech. For a short while I tried grip shift for the rear as well but that doesn't work for me. I pedal standing most of the time and the grip shift really allows you to force the mech into position. I bent too many rear mechs just from shifting.

I haven't tried a chain device like e-thirteen dual ring security (DRS) but it might work too. Obviously the bash guard already prevents the chain from dropping from the largest ring.

 double post

 @vinay: I currently have an e13 DRS (without bash guard) on my 2014 Trance, running XT mechanical, but only because it came stock on the bike. I don't have any problems with chain drop...

That said, I have never had problems with front mechs, neither rubbing nor dropping the chain. Maybe it helps that I learned how to shift with 2x5 on downtube friction shifters in the early 1980s, before ramped & pinned chainrings and clusters that let you get away with murder?
I did find SRAM 9.0SL (from 2002, gripshift) a bit touchy, seemed to have really high spring tension and required backing off the power and pedalling slowly or it could thrown the chain off inboard on downshift, even with the limit screws adjusted as finely as possible. But I got used to it.

 @vinay: Have an e13 DRS on my 2014 Trance, seems to work OK.

That said, I've never really had a problem with front derailleurs, probably helps that I got my first road bike with 2x5 with downtube friction shifters in about 1982. No ramps or pins or fancy tooth profiling in those days, modern drivetrains let us get away with murder.
I did find my old SRAM 9.0 front derailleur took some getting used to, it had very high spring tension and would dump the chain off inboard if you didn't back right off the power and pedal slowly when downshifting.

 Thanks for the advices, I will try it

 These are spy shots, they're not meant to be clear. It's PB's fault.

 Youre thinking too hard

 If the post slammed I think the seat would hit the tire.

 It looks like they are doing what Rocky Mountain did to their pivots.

 fugi ba de aicia

 @jaybird951: ))))

 Next would be a price point shiftable steel narrow wide 3x.

 bythehive.com/collections/chainguides/products/trs-plus-dual-chainguide

www.mrpbike.com/2xguide

its a real 2x. Shame.

 he's just being a smart ass :-)

 Looks like a Session

 @racerx88: A very ugly session

 ????????

 @etga6657:

It has a double chain ring with a changer up front.

 Or nicolai?

 @BenPea: I was talking too quick. Nicolaï bikes are a kind of their own, apart from the others. But the cube bike looks like a bulls bike too

 @etga6657: yeah , two wheels and stuff between