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@boxxerace: Sorry, no Special Sauce, but there is some Minuteman Salsa stashed away. ;)

@optimumnotmaximum: True that

@optimumnotmaximum: *expensive not-made-in-asia raw alu bikes ;)

Why though? Isn't Nicolai filling that market niche in Europe already?

Srsly? Would you like some freedom fries with that "Freedom Linkage", sir?

Apparently they are building their business model around selling lever upgrades. Now they even issued this advertorial glorifying the development process to reach in their third attempt what had to be done when the brakes were first released.

@The-Reverend: To be fair. Not only Norco. YT Capra has a 5mm difference between M/L and XL/XXL frames, but to this date only RAAW and Nicolai/Geometron have addressed this like it should've been from the start. Even "the most progressive" bike company, Pole, is stuck with only one size and it is rather long, turning the tables on shorter than XL guys, giving them something to bitch about this time around. The upcoming Bold Unplugged has an interesting take on this with flip chips in chainstays. So there is some cheap solution to this, at least for Horst link designs. A good thing is that the industry has started to take notice. Unfortunately some have skipped the opportunity and there probably won't be any change for the next 3-5 years in their otherwise very interesting products, such as this Pivot. What would be more than welcome, and I hope that someone from Pivot reads this, is that the next year when they introduce a 2020 model instead of just following Santa Cruz' year old color pallet and some change in component specs they introduce a meaningful upgrade like different chainstay length for different frame size. This would be the real and meaningful model year upgrade.

Nope. Next in the MTB standards pipeline is Super Boost Metric DUB. A 160mm x 12.49mm.

If only chainstays were longer in L/XL

@bogey: What is your inseam and height btw?