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Haha, I was waiting for this. Go read Godwin’s law of E-bikes on nsmb .com :) But then again this guy won’t.

First thing I thought of when I saw it: looks like a Taniwha and a G2 had a baby. The it turns out he lives around the corner from Zerode and works with Rob... Nice job!

I have a question to the author: if the effect only really happens when the rear hub is engaged, does that mean a higher engagement rear hub would give worse suspension feel than a low engagement hub? I assume so. * even at higher speeds the hub will still get engaged as there is a lesser degree of engagement. And so hubs that have instant engagement will have the most kick back

All the wrong questions on here. Where are those trails she is riding in the photos?! They look amazing! I do love a privateer sticking to the bike they love rather than a contract though. Good luck with this years racing!

Yeah, the Deviate looks awesome as well. Would be great to do some comparison reviews of gearbox bikes that are aimed at the same target market.

If you do a efficiency test, please use real world conditions and not some idealistic scenario. In other words, some fire road, some technical uphill/downhill/mixed single track where you need to change gears a lot etc. Your baseline is idealistic in this case... This test should also take into account some other things like wet weather, mud, dirty gears/chains. You know, things that you encounter in real mountain bike riding. One of the best things about a sealed gearbox over an exposed drive train is that it isn't affected by these things at all and remains constant whereas conventional drive trains turn to crap after you ride through the first mud puddle. Also the drag changes depending on which gear you are in, so you would need to be realistic about when it really matters. In the low gears there is no noticeable drag, in the high gears there is noticeable drag but who cares since you are already doing 40+km/h and probably going downhill with gravity at this point.

Now these are excellent questions!

As with any bike you can change it's characteristics using different parts and tuning (think air shock vs coil shock and open or close compression etc.). From the picture it seems you have a very good balanced setup of parts, not sure how they are tuned though. I would be interested to understand the suspension setup that you used for the review as it would play a lot into how it behaves (playful vs hugging the ground for instance). Ride it in some really nasty conditions (weather permitting), which I'm sure you would have anyway, and let us know what the drive train does in those conditions. Looking forward to your article.

I was thinking the exact same thing while reading this :)

I'm not going to bother reading all the comments, so I don't know if someone has already said this: judging by the response manufacturers have completely missed the mark. Five Ten are winning this by a mile...