7 Custom World Champs Commencal Supremes

 Best bikes going

 Seriously each bike so insanely gorgeous in its own way

 In case he wins, the Black Snake will be renamed to Titi Twister.

 Weird that Paul's is Mary as well

 Rainbow?

 Assegai has a really low trolling resistance.

 @lubb1: that comment is gold.

 His top tube doesn't say say Stay Woke, however. Missed oppo.

 They look so good!

 Beautiful. Commencal's own brand apparently, according to the etchings:
www.pinkbike.com/photo/21196604

 @vhdh666: its a prototype from Galfer i think. I saw something on bikerumor about them.

 @vhdh666: bikerumor.com/2021/07/21/spotted-galfer-finned-disc-rotors-improve-heat-dissipation-for-commencal-muc-off

 Or if only pink bike had made an article about it... m.pinkbike.com/news/commencal-unveils-the-2021-supreme-race-bike.html

 @juliopedro: easiest way to visualize it is to start with the light green rocker link (in the picture). If that link moves (compresses the shock), it pulls the dark green link forward, and the purple one up. The light blue link rotates arounds its upper pivot. And when the purple link pulls on the light blue link, the yellow link gets pushed backwards.

 @Blablablup123: Yup, but if the suspension compresses, I just don’t get if the purple one is pulled or compressed. Adjusting it’s length seems to allow to lengthen/shorten the chainstays, but all in all it just looks hyperstatic. Well, obviously it’s not since the bike seems to work, but eh, this armchair engineer wants to know more...

 @juliopedro: the purple link is pulled straight up by the light green link.

 Dunno, but I wonder the same thing. Maybe to improve pedaling efficiency.
I dont run a lower idler on my bike because it hit a rock and broke off. Now I just have the upper chain retainer and bash guard.

 I am guessing they just didn't get given the new model.

 To improve suspension movement. It's a problem with some dh bikes. Chain wrap should increase under sag anyway and the clutch derailer should manage the tension

 They are two diff bikes. The new one has the idler a bit lower and further back. Not all their riders are on it yet since its a prototype.

 @wilsonians: angel and peirron have the same bike. One uses a guide, one doesn't

 @makripper: Oooh yeah, see what you mean. Yeah no idea. Prob just personal preference on how it feels with the chain.

 @wilsonians: now in other pics angel has one on. Maybe they forgot to install it haha

 I'd say you don't need it with the small DH cassette, but with the huge enduro one you don't have enough spare chain for chain growth so you need the lower guide to have more spare chain/less chain growth, the new Norco Range doesn't have one though, I'll have to check in Linkage how they do it with the huge cassette.
So I'd say personal preference in the present case.

 @Will-narayan: I don't have a lower guide and never had issues on my Enduro. I took it off as soon as I bought the bike

 @makripper: Woops, I maybe wasn't precise enough, I meant high pivot with big cassette. With a high pivot you usually have more chain growth than a normal pivot because the wheel is moving away from the BB, so while the derailleur cage has enough spare chain for a high pivot with small DH cassette or a normal pivot with big cassette, it's usually not enough for a high pivot with big +50T cassette.
I checked the Range in Linkage and it seems to have a bit of negative pedal kickback (-5°, though I drew it with a side picture so not precise), so the chain may be growing up to a point and then shrinking a bit towards the end of travel. Speaking from memory there as I don't have linkage on this computer.

 shit you're right. crazy

 prototype bike that the top riders are using

 First time a fat bar actually matches with the frame color

 Galfer