YT Launches Alloy Capra Core 2 Models for $3,399

Apr 28, 2022
by Matt Beer  

Spring is kicking off in the Northern Hemisphere and YT has been on a spree of unveiling fresh bike models. The latest includes 29" and mixed wheeled versions of the long-travel, budget friendly Capra Core 2 bikes. We saw some updates to the Capra alloy frames, such as a threaded bottom bracket on the performance-focused Uncaged 9 build that launched just over a month ago, and that carries over to the Core 2 models as well.

Each frame is available in either a subtle matte grey or matte black option with subdued graphics and uses the exact same components package for a much more affordable $3,399 USD. The geometry mimics their carbon siblings that is modified depending on not only wheel diameter, but also the frame size. Across the five sizes in both wheel platforms, the chainstays grow by 5mm on the larger XL and XXL sizes.

Capra MX Core 2 Details

• Wheel size: 29" front / 27.5" rear
• Travel: 170mm front / 170mm rear
• Frame material: Aluminum
• Head angle: 64º / 64.3º
• Sizes: S, M, L, XL, XXL
• Reach: 424, 444, 464, 484, 504mm
• CS length: 433, 433, 433, 438, 438mm
• Weight: 15.20 kg / 33.51 lb
• MSRP: EUR €3,199, GBP £3,199, USD $3,399, CAD $4,799, AUD $4,999, NZD $5,499

Capra MX Core 2 AL Geometry



Capra MX Core 2 AL Specs





The 29er version of the Capra uses the same Core 2 components package, retails for the same price point, and weighs just 100 g more. It too uses the left side loading Thirstmaster 6000 water bottle that holds 620ml and has a flip-chip at the rear shock yoke to alter the geometry by 0.3-degrees.

Looking at the specs, $3,399 USD brings staples like Fox Float Performance suspension to the table at both wheels, along with an E13 bar and stem combo. ODI grips, an SDG saddle, and YT's own Postman dropper finish off the cockpit. SRAM Code R brakes with dual 200mm rotors and NX drivetrain bits take care of the stopping and going, while Crankbrothers Synthesis Alloy wheels and Maxxis dual compound tires finish off the rolling bits.

Capra 29 Core 2 AL Details

• Wheel size: 29" front / 29" rear
• Travel: 170mm front / 165mm rear
• Frame material: Aluminum
• Head angle: 64.2º / 64.5º
• Sizes: S, M, L, XL, XXL
• Reach: 427, 447, 467, 487, 507mm
• CS length: 438, 438, 438, 443, 443mm
• Weight: 15.30 kg / 33.73 lb
• MSRP: EUR €3,199, GBP £3,199, USD $3,399, CAD $4,799, AUD $4,999, NZD $5,499


Capra 29 Core 2 AL Geometry



Capra 29 Core 2 AL Specs




YT Industries - Capra Core2 AL

Stock availability and ordering can be done through YT's direct to consumer website model. For more detailed frame and action photos from the launch, click here.

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179 Comments

  • 69 8
 Can we get 27.5 version for all us freeride guys? 27.5 rigs keep getting harder to find new, but people keeping riding them. Why would you stop making them?
  • 22 7
 When there's no demand, there's no offer, I guess... Since I've gone mullet, I'll never go back, but I'll take a shot in saying that when the same model is offered in both wheel sizes (take the canyon spectral, f.e.), the big wheels take like 80% of the sales (judging by what is happening at my LBS, which is a small sample, I know).Still, can't remember the last time I saw someone with a brand new 650b bike on the trails
  • 9 0
 Norco shore! What else has come out recently?
  • 16 12
 @sadfusde: It isn't lack of demand, its a lack of anything in 27.5.
  • 27 40
flag Swampjunkie (Apr 28, 2022 at 13:37) (Below Threshold)
 @mtb-scotland: nope its definitely a lack of demand. i work for a bike manufacturer, and the only people that buy 27.5 is ladies.
  • 8 1
 @j-t-g: can confirm Norco shore is sick
  • 3 0
 How do you feel about swapping the air spring to 180, and putting a 275 front wheel on the MX version?
Then you can try the mullet, and swap back and fourth if you want.
Might change the geo slightly, but so does the flip chip.
  • 24 2
 @Swampjunkie: nah man...I mean my lady does have 27.5's but so do I. I will only buy 27.5, have three of them right now. A majority of my riding crew is on full 27.5 as well. Obviously 29ers take up a massive portion of the market, but there is plenty of demand for 27.5...at least where I'm at there is.
  • 4 0
 @j-t-g: nomad and giga come to mind but i gotta agree with Dylan, my shore is sick
  • 9 0
 @j-t-g: Pivot Shadowcat...not a freeride bike but full 27.5 and it looks like a shredder
  • 8 0
 @mtb-scotland: our shop sells Marin Rift Zone 27.5's all the time.
  • 5 10
flag ogAviJohnson (Apr 28, 2022 at 14:38) (Below Threshold)
 2 of my friends just learned 360s on a dirt jump with their mullet Status’s. Big wheels are pretty badass
  • 11 1
 Get a clash
  • 2 0
 Put a 10 or 15mm head cup spacer on it an go +10 on the fork spring too and there you go
  • 1 0
 @ogAviJohnson: way cool
  • 1 0
 @onawalk: That is what I do, with MX it's flip chip high BB is 342mm, with 27.5 front I bump fork 10mm, flip chip in low and BB is at 335mm with geo the same.
  • 1 0
 @j-t-g: SC Nomad V5 Wink I see people riding it all the time here at Vancouver BC.
  • 2 1
 I just want a bike that you can whip 360s with
  • 4 0
 Commencal clash
  • 5 1
 190 riding a 27.5, have mullet setup too but prefer 27.5 to 29 all day. Also ive raced both.
  • 1 4
 Prolly work for some wack company @Swampjunkie:
  • 3 0
 Still riding my 2017 Intense spider with 27.5" wheels, a Pike and a 66.5 degree head angle. It's so much fun and with short chainstays it wants to pop off anything. I keep wondering if I should put an angle adjust in the front, but I don't feel like it's ever been twitchy so why bother.
  • 10 0
 @FloridaHasMTBToo Probably 26 isn't dead enough yet to restart. Love 27.5/26 mullet as a freerider tup
  • 2 0
 @yoobee: I remounted a Morewood Mbuzi in 27.5/26, the rear in 27.5 was touching the cable guide for the front derailleur mount at full compression, I hesitated to saw it www.instagram.com/p/CQtw6Joh3C6
  • 4 2
 Florida man looking for a freeride bike... lol
  • 2 3
 Yes there are still people riding them, but clearly not enough to continue offering many 27.5 models. They market their product according to sales. Big wheels are more popular.
  • 1 3
 @surfboard: Not trying to plug myself here, but I think a lot of the videos on my profile speak for themselves on why I need a freeride bike.
  • 3 0
 @FloridaHasMTBToo: Sick riding dude, my ankles hurt just watching some of that. After that vid I was left wondering whether you might, perchance, have previously dabbled in the fabled art of bicycle motocross.
  • 2 1
 @Woody25: Unfortunately not, I'm 6'7" so BMX was out of the question pretty early on.
  • 2 0
 @FloridaHasMTBToo: Kudos dude, you make impressive use of that range of movement, some of those big landings were super smooth.
  • 6 0
 @Swampjunkie: Ekhm, what about short people? I am 166 cm and I feel terrible on 29" bikes.
  • 1 0
 @zoobab2: truth, this is the ONLY option that Will get me dropping ££$ on a new bike
  • 3 1
 People are sheeps
  • 2 5
 There's nothing wrong with 27.5 bikes, and there's for sure a sub-section of riders who want them. However for a brand to continue designing and coming out with new ones (as opposed to selling existing 27.5 bike/versions of bikes) there has to be a sizeable amount of demand shown in sales numbers.

At the shop level, owners and buyers will notice that they sit on 27.5 models for much longer than 29 or MX bikes, and will there fore order less of them in subsequent years. Brands track sales data like this and will either phase out models that aren't selling, or increasingly often redesign them as mullets in their next refresh cycle. Obviously this doesn't ensure that everyone gets the bike they want, but that's how industry works.

So if you like 27.5 bikes, put in the legwork to find one at an LBS and buy it. On the bright side, with the amount of sell through on bikes these days, it'll probably be one of the only bikes they have left in stock Wink
  • 3 3
 @otterdirt: was looking at one and was sold on it until i saw pressfit BB.
  • 1 0
 @whitebullit: Nothing wrong with pressfit. Mine is ok after over two years of riding.
  • 1 0
 @szec: me two, seems like alu press fit with 24mm axle is good. An creaks start from (not so) fantastic plastic an 30mm axles
  • 15 1
 @edthesled: Cynically I see it like this: First the bike industry profits from making us all think what we have is no longer good enough and persuades us to buy the next great thing ("26" bad", "650 doesn't roll over bumps", "is 29" big enough").

Then some time later, after we've all sold off the old thing, it rebrands the original thing and sells that back to us: "27.5 has all the nimbilities".

Whereas, in fact, all techs had their place all along and if the bike industry would live up to it's corporate responsibility babbling and stop trying to turn a quick buck then all along it would have just said what we all now know "26 is good for jumping and smaller people, 27.5 is more suitable if you're a medium sized person or a taller one who likes a bike that's a bit more agile and 29 rolls a bit smoother, but at the expense of being a bit heavier and feeling a bit less agile sometimes".

If they'd said that then the shops would have had a clear message to give to the punters, we'd probably
find the demand would then exist and the shops would then carry all wheel sizes.

I'm using wheel size as an example here, but you could substitute in carbon vs. aluminium frames/wheels, enduro vs. trail bikes etc.
  • 3 1
 @Woody25: 10,000 up votes from me
  • 1 2
 @Woody25: Ah yes the bikespiracy theory. It seems like there's a general disconnect between the cool rad core brands people expect bike companies to be, and the fact that they are capitalist enterprises which by nature aim to maximize profits.

That's not a good thing, but it seems like most people should be capable of a level of critical thinking where they're able to see that and shrug it off like we all do for every other industry in the globalized hellscape we mutually inhabit.
  • 3 2
 @edthesled: No conspiracy theories, it’s simply creating demand - good business in a free market. The point is that those of us that run businesses need to pay more than lip service to our CSR.
  • 1 0
 @szec: yeah no way pal, i can remove a threaded bb in 15 seconds with a bb wrench, pressing in a new bb or removing a pressed in bb is just a pain in the ass when you know it could be threaded. makes absolutely no sense.
  • 2 0
 Get the mullet version and get a 20mm longer air shaft for the fork. Problem solved for $50 and you've got super long travel in the front which sounds pretty freeride to me.
Seriously, the industry has groomed us so hard to think that switching wheel sizes on bikes that aren't "designed around" the wheel size is a sin and you will die for doing it. It is not. Source: currently riding a 29er I put a 27.5 rear wheel on, and a CC angleset to bring the head angle back. It's just like the mullet version of the bike.
  • 1 3
 @Woody25: Again this seems more like an issue with consumer's ability to think critically about advertising. But that's beside the point anyway.

My point is not that brands don't occasionally come up with stupid standards for no good reason (SuperBoost and 15mm thru-axles come to mind), but that the decline in 27.5 models across the industry is the result of a tangible calculable change in the buying habits of consumers. Whether it's right or wrong, the majority of customers do not want a 27.5 wheeled bike, so the few suffer for the preference of the masses.
  • 1 0
 @gravitybass: I slapped a 27.5 my 29" Slayer last season, put the flip chip in the high setting to compensate for the change and loved it. The change in reach was noticeable, but it still felt like the same bike over all, with a bit more maneuverability mid-corner etc.
  • 2 0
 @whitebullit: and yet press fit head sets have been working ever since.......
  • 4 1
 @sadfusde: it's not lack of demand, it's manufacturers forcing new sizing standards on everyone every single year and then marketing the shit out of it so that you get excited about buying the "next best thing."

Meanwhile, there are a lot of people that still enjoy 27.5, don't buy a new bike every 1-2 years in response to these marketing trends, and don't have tons of money.
  • 2 0
 @naptime: you change the internal bearing on a headset, not the entire thing. generally its one headset per frame with a bearing change when needed. comparing the two is absurd.
  • 2 0
 @whitebullit: is it really? They do the same job an yet a head set stands up to more leverage and more abuse. Poor frame tolerances on cheap Asian manufacturers is the ONLY reason press fit has a bad rep
  • 3 3
 @naptime: radial load vs axial load, before you comment you should know what youre talking about, you just sound silly.
  • 2 0
 @whitebullit: no you are
  • 1 0
 Head sets go through a LOT more stress than BB's and they work fine as press fit. They have done for many MANY years wether it's bearing in a cup or a bearing directly into a frame.

Press fit BB' s on the other hand are relatively new an made by far Eastern companies with engineering tolerances paid for by Western companies that CANNOT agree on a standard size. If they pay for good tolerances they get good tolerances.

Many riders have problem free PF BB's as does BMX that has had PF BB's for YEARS... with
Zero problems.
"Oh.but that's because they're steel" is the cry of every PF BB haters.. its almost ad if the problem isn't the BB design or the type but the material it s.ounted in cough carbon is shit cough.

But please, continue to say how silly I sound.........

Boring
Zzzzzzz
Time for a nap
  • 2 0
 If you don’t how to thread a nut onto a rod I can see why you don’t like press fit I’m sure a local
Shop can help get you sorted out as well @whitebullit:
  • 1 1
 @freeridejerk888: always tryin your best to live up to your name. @naptime headsets are angular contact bearings, BB's are side loaded cartridge bearings, they do not take more abuse than bottom brackets, regardless of what you think. its two totally different things anyway, but youre too smart to understand i guess.
  • 1 1
 @whitebullit: well I guess you must know more than the entire bicycle industry, and mechanic and engineer there's ever been in the history of time eh? It doesn't take much to understand basic effects of leverage that a fork, wheel and riding takes on a
Head set......
But carry on thinking your right and every one else is wrong
Boring
Time for a nap
Zzzzzzzzzz
  • 1 2
 @naptime: the headset is preloaded with ANGULAR bearings. the leverage on the cranks is much worse on a side loaded axial bearing, you dont even understand the difference between the two, at all, and im done trying to explain it. have fun with your BB when you need to change it.
  • 2 0
 @whitebullit: have fun?
It'll take like 5 mins.. just like it took about 5mins to fit..... three years ago and still working fine, with no creaks....
I do understand the difference between angular Bearings an regular Bearings. Being that I'm a quality Engineer by trade and have also been a bicycle mech a couple times in my life among other mechanical jobs.
but,
what your failing to grasp or deliberately choose to ignore to make your bullshit point is that the difference in Bearings (there was once a time when head sets didn't have angular Bearings, if you're old enough to remember that) you know that rmakes f*ck ALL difference on the leverage loads of a 500-700ishmm length of a fork and a wheel. On probably the heaviest loaded areas of a bicycle, the lower head tube area.. compared to a 160-175mm crank arm in a BB shell that is supported by many tube contact points (or CNC or carbon or whatever) an bately yakes force directions other the cranks being spun.
But please.....
with even many experts within and out side the Industry admitting that press fit isn't the problem but the poor standards of tolerance at the factories...


But, Pink Bike forum shit posters don't like PF BB's cos they had one bad experience with previously mentioned shite standards.
So I guess it must the whole world.of engineering thats wrong eh.......?

Zzzzzzz
  • 1 0
 @naptime: couldnt understand your babble, judging by your latest upload you probably know as much about bikes as you do riding them... hows the arm? twat.
  • 2 1
 It’s just fun to upset old men who don’t know anything on the internet enjoy your creaky bike on your clapped out trails@whitebullit:
  • 1 2
 @freeridejerk888: LOL, try again bud.
  • 1 3
 @whitebullit: so,
because you cant just accept that some one out there will have a different opinion than.you that's based on life long experience. Backed up by other people's real world professional experience an mechanical fact....
You feel the need, again... to resort to insults an misstruths an profile stalking....

Well.done bud, you just won the special Olympics in classic troll fashion.
So f*cki.g Boooooring zzzzzzzzzz
  • 2 1
 He’s a 45 year old guy who rides a clapped out knolly and hasn’t left his local trail system in 15 years. I wouldn’t bother lol @naptime:
  • 1 1
 @freeridejerk888: :'D an he's calling me old!!! :'D
  • 3 2
 [deleted and user banned for homophobic slur]
  • 2 2
 @naptime: because it isnt a matter of opinion, its facts; and youre wrong.
  • 1 2
 @whitebullit: OK mate you know better than the entire engineering world.....
Yawn
Boring
Zzzzzzzz
Part4
  • 1 2
 @naptime: because 'the entire engineering world' thinks pressfit is better than threaded........ you. are. daft.
  • 1 0
 @whitebullit: but it's not about PF being better that threaded is it? And that what you FAILING to grasp. The point I'm making is that head tubes go through a LOT more stress that BB's. That's an undeniable FACT. What I also an undeniable FACT is that head sets in all thier different forms internal, ZS & EC have been PF for ever.. SO with that in mind why do PF head sets work but BB's don't? Let me eductae you. Its because of poor/cheap standards and very bad tolerances in questionable materials like carbon. Also add stupid axle sizes resulting in tiny weak Bearings. (Thanx sram!)
The proof of this is that ALL bottom brackets are PF wether you like it or not, OK you have a threaded cup... THAT THE BEARINGS ARE PRESS FITTED INTO............ with proper tolerances
Now just like "looks like a session" and "has a BMX back ground" or "ew no bottle mounts" there are PB forum tropes and one of them is PF BB's suck which is an old, tired, disproved story.
PF BB's done correctly work. They just do. It offers advantages in frame desighn. Advantages that many reputable bike companies use. Look back to the PB poll on PF BB's ... more proof

Yawn
Zzzzzz
Time for a nap
Part 5
PF
  • 5 2
 @naptime: Can y'all shut the f*ck up already? You're two grown ass adults arguing over some petty bullshit on a damn mountain bike website. smh
  • 1 0
 @FloridaHasMTBToo: no you are
  • 1 0
 I'm currently in hospital getting my wrist pinned so I have ALL the time in the world to point out how pointless this argument/debate is.....
  • 1 2
 @naptime: honestly i wish you well, you need it.
  • 1 0
 @whitebullit: cheers bud ill be back shredding end of summer
  • 1 0
 @naptime: I'm 16, the adult part doesn't apply to me so I'm all good lol
  • 1 0
 @FloridaHasMTBToo: 48 going on 12, never trust the grown ups
  • 1 0
 @edthesled: Curious why the bike feels more maneuverable mid-corner than it did with with the 29” wheel.
Not arguing, just curious why that would be.

I’ve been toying with the idea of throwing a 275 wheel on my Sentinel, and giving it a try. Just don’t feel like ponying up for a 275 rear wheel.
  • 1 0
 Have fun being banned Smile @whitebullit:
  • 2 1
 @naptime: hey atleast your mature enough to have a real convo that doesn’t end with someone use homophobic words
  • 1 2
 @freeridejerk888: oh get overrr yourself. you literally joined into this thread by saying "its fun to upset old men". better take a good long look at yourself if upsetting others gets you off.
  • 5 0
 Where is doublecrownaddict when he is most needed
  • 2 2
 I think gay people are awesome, but i think that f word is referring to Harley riders @freeridejerk888:
  • 1 3
 Shout to who ever is up voting people using the F word still. @DCF:
  • 1 1
 @onawalk: Pretty much it was just easier to get the bike further over mid-corner if the berm has a tightening radius or other situations like that. Or really any other situation that involves making some kind of adjustment with the bike on edge. My understanding is that the smaller wheel has a lower level of gyroscopic stability that you have to overcome to lean the bike over.
  • 1 1
 @DCF: Trust me I tried getting one
  • 1 2
 @Woody25: You woke up and decided to speak facts
  • 2 2
 @freeridejerk888:hey douchbag wrong guy.... lets meet up and ride and see how good you are ........your good enough to talk shit but not back it up
  • 1 3
 Lol settle down champ. I don’t live anywhere the land of above ground pools n@kawin20:
  • 2 3
 [deleted and user banned for homophobic slur]
  • 2 2
 oh and my pool's in ground because I spend more time working and less time talking shit about people
  • 1 2
 Dude you really going around using that word? That’s cool @kawin20:
  • 1 1
 @szec: im not saying we dont sell 27.5 at all... its just an extremally low amount. when you only sell 1 27.5 bike for every 10 29ers, its not hard to understand why manufacturers arnt prioritizing 27.5. its not worth the R&D to develop a new frame that doesnt sell well
  • 1 1
 @freeridejerk888: f*cking millenial pussy.
  • 1 1
 Lol you really don’t get what you say on the internet is there forever right? Your straight up harassing a stranger @whitebullit:
  • 2 1
 @freeridejerk888: now you wanna play the victim?? that works both ways, what happenned to it being 'fun to upset old men on the internet' ?
  • 1 1
 Also do you enjoy threading strangers on the internet you’ve ever met at 50 years old. Grow up alreadly @kawin20:
  • 1 1
 @whitebullit: I never threatened or harassed you. Never used homophobic words. Your actually upset on a mountain bike forum. I’m wondering why
  • 1 1
 @freeridejerk888: you actually DID harass me. just scroll up if you've forgotten how this all started. you cant change your role when its convenient for you.
  • 1 1
 @whitebullit: you still think it’s okay to respond by calling someone with an f word because they hurt your wittle feelings by calling your trails bad? I’m full. See you later Wink
  • 3 1
 @freeridejerk888: you. are. such. a. pussy.... 'the f word' you f*cking millenials are ruining america. the first amendment allows me to say whatever i want, if that bothers you than you can eat a dick.
  • 2 0
 Jeeez, do all your debates in dm
  • 1 1
 Prolly a good idea for him. @Noeserd:
  • 1 2
 Okay boomer @whitebullit:
  • 1 0
 @freeridejerk888: you literally know nothing you've proved it time and time again
  • 1 2
 @freeridejerk888: not homophobic words oh no it might hurt someone feeling better censor it so everyone feels safe
  • 1 0
 By not bullying people I don’t know their names or anything about them online using homophic slurs? Your right I don’t know anything about that @davebova77:
  • 28 4
 Wow this is almost identical to the 2019 Capra Base at $2699
  • 2 0
 I was thinking the same thing. Glad I bought mine when I did
  • 4 0
 Yeah it's rough out here. At least that's less of price increase than other brands (looking at you Nukeproof bastards)
  • 7 7
 Glad I snagged the Shred version 2 years ago. Awesome ride….after I swapped those garbage Codes and replaced with Saints.
  • 11 13
 @KK11: That's funny. Pretty much everybody I know that works in a shop is choosing Code RSCs over anything Shimano. Apparently Shimano pistons are prone to leaking among other things.
  • 1 11
flag KK11 (Apr 28, 2022 at 17:12) (Below Threshold)
 @shami: and?
  • 13 3
 @KK11: did that not come across as an obvious counterpoint to your "garbage Codes" comment?
  • 2 0
 Yeah but it has a water bottle
  • 8 5
 @shami: Codes might be the worst brakes I have ever used. The amount of brake fade over the course of a long DH is crazy. I am a heavier guy so maybe they work better for the light guys.

I switched to TRPs and its literally like my bike brakes again, doesn't lose power and scream at me after heavy braking.

I have not used shimano in some time but Formula cura 4 and TRP brakes literally destroy codes.
  • 1 0
 They are very close to the same price as many well valued brick and mortar brands now
  • 2 0
 Identical except for the swap to Fox suspension which literally makes up the price difference.
  • 2 3
 @smuckbucket: not even close, $700? Maybe if it was factory but this is stocked with performance which is oem only garbage. Especially the newer grip dampers, those blow up so fast
  • 1 0
 @Rhojax: I actually thought the new Nukeproof prices were a typo/mistake on CRC. I am confused how they plan to continue on like that. It's like they woke up one day and said, let's charge the MOST we think we can while still basically selling out stock. And people are probably gonna bite. Particularly with availability struggles. Oof. And the Vitus bumps as well. Glad they at least made some good lookin changes with their price bump.
  • 1 3
 @shami: keep in real in WA. Lol
  • 4 0
 @KK11: my Capra base came with code r and were very reliable but definitely did not have enough power. I upgraded to saint and they have so much more power and I love them. No issues. Never tried the code rcs but heard they are much better than code r especially with 220 rotors
  • 1 0
 @vesania: Same experience here, Code Rs are decent brakes and very reliable - but Shimano DH brakes are much better.
  • 1 0
 @chakaping: Same experience here going from Code R to RSC, considerably more power. I have had Zees and Saints too and the stopping power is also fantastic.
  • 2 0
 It isnt 2019 though and there is a high rate of inflation right now - isnt it over 6% in the USA at the moment? - 3 years at +5% goes some way to the new price.

Everything outside of push-bikes has soared too, a recent industrial machine quote was around 20% up on 3-4 years ago, and the supplier isn't making a higher margin.
  • 3 0
 I wonder what prices will be like in 10 years. I can't imagine they can continue climbing at such an exponential rate? Your average rider will be priced out. But I mean if there is a demand...
  • 1 0
 @shami: Code R's and Code RSC's are completely different brakes. They should really have different name plates. You'd have to pay me to run R's, but I'd gladly take a set of RSC's any day
  • 19 0
 33-34 lbs with that part spec and aluminum frame? Hard to believe.
  • 4 0
 probably a typo as their site says something else when you try to order
  • 2 1
 It’s probably based on smallest sizes with helium inflated tires.
  • 2 0
 on US site, the displayed weight is 35.9 lbs. I wouldn't be surprised if that is size small. My Izzo weighs a pound more than listed weight.
  • 7 0
 The Earth's gravitational pull varies across the surface of the globe. Well known fact.
  • 1 0
 @wutamclan: dang. I like the idea of the Izzo but the posted weights were already holding me back
  • 2 0
 @Chondog94: For reference my Core 3 Izzo weighs just under 30lbs. XL with pedals, bottle cage and computer mount.
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 @wutamclan: I can confirm YT gives weight based on size small…
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 It's too bad they went away from the LTD editions. I recall a few years back those aluminum beauties went for $3600 and came with Shimano XTR and Fox Factory stuff. Times have changed...
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 Yep. The price increase in the last 5 years is like 50%
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 @bashhard: yeah they can't really blame that on inflation. We didn't have 50% inflation in that time.
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 @spaced: no we had more like 100% inflation in the U.S In the last 5 yrs..... Inflation was up almost 13% in just march of 2022, that's just 1 month and that's best case scenario.

Just go to the grocery store and my food bill that was once 250.00 is over 400 today. 250 was only 18 moths ago.

You guys need to start paying attention to the real world. The world has changed in just a year.
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 L@MarkSedman: that’s not how inflation works - it’s measured relative to a year prior. Also, March 2022 was 8.5% relative to a year prior.
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 @MarkSedman: Sorry, but that is simply wrong. Your inflation is far from a 100% in 5 years
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 @MarkSedman: Recession incoming. It's inevitable at this point.
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 @bashhard: no its probably higher, and what do you know about the U.S. economy when you are in Germany.
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 @adamstraus: ok so you don't agree that inflation has risen 100% in 5 years or are you here to give me an econ lesson.

I know how it works, I was expressing it in simple terms.

Gas doubled in just 1 year, food more than doubled, raw materials have more than doubled, I can keep going but keep believing the media with their 8.5% crap.
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 @bashhard: Oh and lets take shipping, a container from China just a year ago was 1000.00 its now 4000.00 but yes you are right not 100%, freight for my industry across country was 1200 its now 5k.

I mean you kids have no idea what you are talking about. Get out of college and go work in the real work before you give stupid opinions.
  • 10 0
 Read that as saying the water bottle had a flip chip. I’m so core now it didn’t even seem like an unreasonable idea.
  • 5 2
 I have no opinion on the bike other than, the valves not being aligned with the logo is frustrating
  • 2 1
 It's good brands are 'trying' to make more affordable bikes....but for not much more than this a few years back you could get a Capra in carbon with Kashima everything for not much more.........
  • 2 0
 Oh the irony...six years ago people on pinkbike were whining every which way but loose over 29ers and 27.5ers being produced at all for downhill/enduro/freeride.
  • 4 1
 Absolute filth!! I’ll take 2
  • 6 5
 I was interested seeing that the wheels aren’t E.13…too bad they are from a company with just as bad (if not worse) track record for selling garbage.
  • 3 0
 Capra is still such a sick looking bike.
  • 3 0
 "budget friendly" . . . $3399

Yeeesh......
  • 2 2
 Why are they still speccing E13 stuff when its a never ending pile of junk made out of cheese with zero warranty support. Its not even cheap.
  • 4 1
 Dude. It’s an aluminum handlebar and stem. Settle down there fella. I’d be way more worried about those Crankbros rims and hubs…..
  • 1 0
 $3,399! I remember the good ole days when you could get a bike for a nickel!
  • 1 3
 Don't listen to @naptime and @freeridejerk888 these kids know absolutely nothing don't even pay their own bills little millennial baby back bitchs that think their hot shit when in real life they would get smoke and be eating their word f*ckin homos
  • 2 0
 I'm 48 you dumb c*nt :"D GEN DUCKING Zed. Why don't you just leave this OLD thread alone to die... just like your homophobic bullshit
  • 3 0
 @mods get this guy TF out of here.... imagine using slurs on a biking site... get a life
  • 3 0
 Tag Brian park @Swampjunkie:
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 There seem to be a bunch of 40-50 year old guys (never actually met them) in trumbull CT who are super homophobic and angry at people aged 21-40@Swampjunkie:
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 @freeridejerk888: I'd love e to meet this guy at a 4X track, an pitch him over the first berm Razz
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 @naptime: id trash this old man with my bmx backround
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 @Swampjunkie: UK 4X vets cat is no joke! They mostly all old school BMX'ers Wink
  • 2 0
 @naptime: i wish we had 4x at my old local spot. bmx racers and 4x guys really know how to put a man on the floor
  • 2 1
 YTs always look so pretty. Great specs too.
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 Not sure if I’m missing something but reach of 504mm on a xxl is pretty tiny. Most XL are around the 515 mark now
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 Pff if you don’t have a 525mm reach do you even mtb?
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 It's smaller than a large Strive lol
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 Reach is the same as on the old model, but the seatangle is steeper - this adds up to a shorter top tube, so it will actually feel even shorter than the old one.
NX/Crankbros vs the SLX/E13/DT on my 2018 base model.
I will keep mine until xxl bikes are true 530.
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 It's good. The uber long top tubes went too far. They were a good idea but now they went into silly teritory where it limits your movement and traction on some trails.
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