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mattwragg:
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Roc D'Azur 2015
We don't quite know where to start with this bike. The Caminade steel frame is certainly unique - although it should be remembered that in his pre-Devinci days Damien Oton piloted one of these in the EWS top 20. Although that was without the Motion fork... The linkage fork is based on a carbon leaf spring - you replace the spring (the green carbon strut in this instance) to tune the spring weight of the bike. Rebound is handled by an oil damper sitting in the head tube - it will fit any conventional bike with a tapered headtube, they say. The makers claim that this design is completely isolated from braking forces, so brake dive is completely eliminated, it offers a very progessive spring curve, has the lowest breakaway force of any mountain bike fork and they believe this fork will also be completely maintenance free. However, there is no compression control. The XC version weight 1.5kg and can be set to 80-120mm of travel and the more enduro-friendly version has 120-160mm of travel and weighs 1.8kg (so about the same as a Pike). They are available now if you have 1920 Euros ready...