Here’s all of the bestest bikes to reach in our inbox this week. Yep, solely three bikes on this week’s New Bike Day round-up… however what a trio they’re!
Airdrop press launch:
ANNOUNCING THE NEW EDIT MX / 27.5
The Edit is an actual rider’s bike. It’s the bike we experience greater than some other, the one we all the time choose up. It’s the right companion for a little bit of every thing; days within the woods, massive pedal days, mountain missions, bikepark periods or simply clowning round down the native.
As with all Airdrop bikes the Edit is designed to place the rider front-and-centre. It’s a motorcycle that wishes to be ridden and promotes dynamic using. Rider engagement is the primary precedence and conserving the rider linked to the terrain as they experience. A quirk-free kinematic and confidence inspiring geometry make the Edit a motorcycle that’s extremely simple to get together with from day one. If you’re in search of a motorcycle that eggs you on to get artistic along with your line selection and rewards each enter, then look no additional.
The all-new Edit is available in each MX and twin 27.5 choices. Dedicated body designs for each choices – no half measures right here. 27.5″ wheels have all the time been on the core of every thing Airdrop, so creating this fifth iteration of the Edit was all about delivering an MX body that didn’t compromise on every thing we love about 27.5″ wheels. Both body choices ship 161mm of rear wheel journey from a 62.5mm stroke shock by way of a four-bar Horst-link design. Shock stroke might be altered to 65mm to ship 167mm journey. Frame geometry is optimised for a 160mm fork, however each frames can settle for 170mm.
FEATURES
- Front Travel: 160mm (170mm possibility)
- Rear Travel: 161mm (167mm possibility)
- Frame Spec: 6061-T6 alloy with one-piece CNC rocker Cable Routing: External with stealth dropper port Rear End: 148×12 SRAM UDH Compatible
- Weight: 3.75kg (S3, {hardware} included)
- Wheel Size: Two frames available; MX for 29/27.5″ wheels and 27.5 for 27.5″ wheels. Both share the identical rear-end however have devoted front-ends designed to make sure there’s no compromise on geo.
FRAME SPECS
- Rear Shock Size: 205×62.5mm (161mm) / 205x65mm (167mm) Bottom Bracket: 73mm BSA30 threaded
- Chain Guide Mount: ISCG05
- Headset: ZS44 / ZS56
- Bottle Cage Mount: Yes
- Seatpost Diameter: 34.9mm
- Seatpost Insertion Depth: 255mm (S1) / 280mm (S2) / 310mm (S3) / 310mm (S4)
- Brake Mount: Post 200mm
- Rear Axle: 181x12mm with 14.5mm M12x1.0mm thread Mech Hanger: Airdrop UDH suitable
- Chainstay Protector: Airdrop Silencer TPE with alloy core
UDH Rear End
We have adopted SRAM’s UDH hanger customary, which suggests spare hangers are a lot simpler to return by nomatter the place on the planet you end up. It additionally ensures our frames are suitable with the latest technology of T-type direct mount drivetrain.
Brake Mount
We uprated the body to an built-in 200mm publish mount. This Edit is a extra succesful bike than ever earlier than, so 200mm rotors simply make sense.
One-piece Rocker
One-piece rockers are an Airdrop staple. The 6061 CNC rocker is a real one-piece design manufactured from a single alloy billet. The one-piece desig is crucial because it ensures minimal lateral load utilized to the shock and ideal shock alignment is maintained always.
Enclosed Rocker Pivot
Rearward rocker pivots are topic to excessive lateral hundreds, and uncovered to the weather. With our new braceless seatstay design we moved to a pair of 3901 double-row, sealed bearings to futher improve load capability, and an enclosed pivot design to defend and shield from dust ingress.
Oversized Seat Tube
We’ve moved to an even bigger diameter, 34.9mm (inner) externally butted seat tube, that means the Edit is able to settle for the following technology of extra dependable, longer-drop posts. In addition to this the outsized tube will increase energy and reduces tube deflection on this key space.
Silencer Chainstay Protector
Our bikes are already recognized for being quiet however we felt we may do extra. The new Silencer chainstay protector has been designed particularly to suit the Edit MX chainstay and encompasses a sound-damping TPE outer round an alloy core. It’s injection moulded to the form of the tube in order that the fabric reminiscence will hold it wrapped slightly than attempting to pressure it open.
Dropper Post Insertion
Maximising drop size at any given saddle top is a should for all riders. And for the Edit we labored arduous to ensure all riders may maximise the drop-length-to-saddle-height ratio. To obtain this, we now have shortened seat tubes throughout the board, elevated reaming depths and provide prospects a selection of drop size from 160-240mm in 10mm increments. We will even be publishing a user-friendly information to saddle top & drop size.
External Cable Routing
Cable routing needs to be clear and easy but additionally simple to work on. The new Edit has exterior cable routing, CNC guides and stainless {hardware} plus our new grooved chainstay yoke.
Tubing
An all new 6061 tubeset, utilizing a mix of extruded and hydroformed tubes with each inner and exterior butting, and a brand new CNC headtube. We labored arduous to dial within the experience compliance and on-trail stiffness with out sacrificing on energy and sturdiness.
Finishes
The Edit MX is available in two choices; a hand-brushed uncooked body with a transparent matte powder coat, paired up with a black ano rocker. There’s a brand new color we’re calling Sean Grean which is a matte inexperienced powder coat, paired up with a silver ano rocker. The Edit 27.5 comes within the tried-and-tested matte black powder coat end paired up with a silver ano rocker, similar to it’s massive brother, the Slacker. All Edits include a selection of silver or black brushed alloy head badges and ten totally different decal color choices.
Whyte Bikes press launch:
Introducing E-lyte
Lightweight pure path bike efficiency with full eMTB energy
Fast, gentle and highly effective – with the vary to do all of it
Lightweight
16.4kg* 600W *E-Lyte 140 Works (measurement M)
Mid-torque
55Nm
Full energy
600w
Our all-new light-weight eMTB vary blends the easiest pure mountain bike dealing with and experience really feel with the facility and functionality of ‘full-fat’ eMTBs.
Engineered for riders who need a lighter and extra acquainted ‘mountain bike’ experience expertise than full-fat eMTBs provide, E-Lyte is designed to ship zero compromises wherever your path takes you: the singletrack, the all-day epic, the home path sizzling laps, the drop-ins, the descents, the tech and the climbs again out.
Lightweight with out compromise
Comprising of three fashions – the E-Lyte 140 Works, E-Lyte 150 Works, and the E- Lyte 150 RSX – the vary contains our lightest ever electrical mountain bike, the E- Lyte 140 Works, which weighs simply 16.4kg (measurement M) and delivers uncompromised XC/path efficiency along with 650Wh of mixed battery capability.
All-new body
The beating coronary heart of each E-Lyte is an all-new, light-weight but sturdy carbon fibre chassis that fastidiously packages Bosch’s gentle and highly effective Performance Line SX mid-torque (55Nm), full energy (600W) motor and 400Wh inner battery seamlessly so you may fly underneath the radar as stealthily as you’ll fly down the paths.
Exceptional dealing with, nevertheless you experience
We’ve fastidiously positioned the mass of the Bosch EnergyMore 250Wh vary extender – included with each Works bikes as customary – as low within the body as attainable to optimise the bike’s centre of gravity and ship an distinctive dealing with bike, nevertheless you wish to experience: with the vary extender on for longer rides out within the hills, or with out for lapping your native trails.
Similarly, with out the EnergyMore in place, you may run a full 750ml water bottle in the identical rock-bottom low position, utilizing the provided bottle cage mount, for a similar dealing with win.
Natural experience response
With its delicate and reactive response, the brand new Bosch Performance Line SX motor delivers a extra pure experience expertise than the full-fat Performance Line CX motor, rewarding greater pedalling cadences and rider effort because it delivers as much as 340% help and 600W of peak energy. This means it requires you to pedal at greater cadences (round 100-105rpm) to unlock its greater help and peak energy however, as soon as there, it’s going to maintain that help even up steep and technical climbs. The motor’s narrower 160mm Q-factor can also be extra akin to mechanical (analogue) bikes, too.
Want to slacken the geometry out for extra downhill grins?
Just use the ‘Shape.it Link V2’ geometry adjustment and put it into its low setting for a decrease, slacker geometry. Want to pedal additional? Keep it its inventory greater, extra all-day ride-friendly set-up.
Want exterior headset routing?
The body comes able to provide the selection as to the way you wish to run your cabling: both internally by means of the headset, or externally after which into the body, nevertheless you favor. The body can also be prepared for mechanical gear cabling for use; simply punch the cable by means of the sealed cable port membranes and away you go.
E-Lyte 140 Works
£10,999
E-Lyte 150 Works
£9,999
E-Lyte 150 RSX
£7,999
Intense Cycles press launch:
The Legend Returns
Introducing the all-new INTENSE M1 – 8” (203mm) of journey, 279 blended wheel, designed round a 6-Link, High Pivot, TIG welded 6061-T6 Aluminum body. A race-proven, profitable machine. Available Spring 2024.
A NEW APPROACH
Back in 2019 the INTENSE Factory Racing (IFR) workforce began prototyping and testing new bikes. First was the M279, a blended wheeled model of our traditional M29 downhill bike. This began a 4 12 months analysis and improvement course of that may ultimately see our design and engineering groups fully reinvent our downhill bike providing. Gone was the traditional VPP/JS Tuned design, and in would come one thing fully totally different.
HIGH PIVOT DESIGN
At the start of the 2022 season the M279 HP1, with it’s 4-Bar High Pivot design, appeared on the first World Cup of the 12 months. This was revolutionary for us at INTENSE. Nicknamed (by some) the ‘gravy boat’, due to its interesting-looking downtube, it noticed success at World Cup degree. Our experiment with excessive pivots had labored, however the bike itself was to be quick lived, as a result of on the finish of the ‘22 race season the workforce went straight onto one other new bike, the extra sophisticated 6-Link prototype M279 HP6.
SEARCHING FOR SPEED
The HP6 felt good from the beginning. It was quick, secure and had a suspension platform that might be adjusted to swimsuit the rider and terrain… it was superior. Everyone was glad. The workforce had the entire of the low season to dial-in and tweak the brand new bike to perfection, and when IFR workforce rider Dakotah Norton took second place on the 2023 Loudenvielle World Cup the race pedigree and the bike’s capabilities have been clear to see. Three weeks later and Dak was again on the rostrum, this time profitable the Fox US Open. The bike had confirmed itself on the highest degree.
REBIRTH OF A LEGEND
For some at INTENSE the identify ‘M279 HP6’ didn’t fairly hit the mark. The thought began to flow into that it could be cool to return to the place all of it started. Back within the late Nineteen Nineties and early 2000s the INTENSE M1 was the bike that everybody wished, it was iconic and it was in all places – on prime of podiums profitable World Cups and Championships, and it was on everybody’s wish-list. We imagine that the unique M1 remains to be essentially the most legendary downhill bike within the historical past of the game, so what higher option to have a good time its racing pedigree, legacy, and the truth that 2023 is our 30 12 months anniversary, than naming this new bike after it?
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