Robgow

Totally agree. It felt like pilot was trying way too hard. It became a distraction from the awesome riding. Good filming shouldn't be noticeable IMO.

Brage to Gee, "hold my beer".

Hi. Rob for AB Design Team here. The aesthetic is definitely a "marmite" factor - it isn't for everyone, but that's something we are happy to live with! Our frame design is driven from a very simple design philosophy - honest engineering: using the right material, right process and right form in the right place. And the engineering reality is that complex form metal high specific strength lugs, bonded to simple form high specific stiffness tubes is an incredibly efficient way to make a structural triangle. The engineering makes the decisions for us! Cheers.

Hi. We totally get this concern with carbon. Our tubes are actually very repairable. We've used a UK based company called Carbonbikerepair.co.uk when we have taken extreme rock strike damage to a down tube for instance. Its a bit of a myth that carbon can't be repaired effectively. Plus, because our tubes have simple geometry and a defined layup schedule they are particularly well suited to repair in this way. You can achieve the original strength post repair. Cheers, Rob (AB Design Team)

Noticed! and thanks! You're absolutely right - it is all too easy to massage your geo numbers into something that makes your life as a designer easier. Cheers, Rob (AB Design Team)

Hi. Rob from AB Design Team here. BB height was a massive focus for us on this product and we worked very hard to find the pedal sweet spot between bike park descending and messy single track climbs. The headline figure of 343 mm is only part of the story as one of the characteristics of our DW6 kinematic is that it is incredible stable and poised under peddling. As such we were able to drop the BB height lower than a lot of equivalent products. The starting design brief for this bike was "a bike that Dan can ride all day in Dyfi Bike Park and then be able to ride the enduro loop (full of rocks, roots, stumps etc) and not feel compromised on either!" He made sure he got this! Best thing is to try one out for yourself and come and do a demo! Cheers.

Come on UK MTB community! Surely there is enough love for this place to not let this happen?! If everyone who has ridden and loved this place contributed something then we could all make this work? UK mtb is what it is thanks to people like James, Sush and Finn, Tim and Jo and Linda. Trust me, you don't crate a bike park to make money - it is a constant graft and stress to keep it going, let alone make it as creative and special as Revs.

@KolaPanda: what he said cheers!

@Warren569: yes, it is lifetime warranty. We genuinely expect the bikes to last forever, albeit aside from excessive crash damage (though our carbon tubes are actually very repairable if they do take a big hit). We believe this because we use a design principle called "infinite life". This means that the frames will never be stressed beyond the Fatigue Limit (or Endurance Limit) for the individual parts and materials. In practise this means that you can repeatedly load our parts to our maximum defined stress (which are equivalent to extreme DH riding) and they will never fatigue.

@chrismac70: because we design the bikes that we want to ride, and we know that it is really fun hammering this lighter more nimble bike in the park and we want to be able to do this in complete confidence. The DW6 is so efficient that a few extra grams in the tubes quickly become irrelevant when you start pedalling. But that's just us! We quickly learnt that you can't please everyone so the best thing to do is design products that we believe in. Cheers.