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05/10/2008
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Rocky
Mountain Bicycles – Proto-type DH frame ‘Spy Shots’
Info from the UK of all places
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Rocky Mountain Bikes has more history than Tony
Robinson digs up on a Sunday evening. With manufacturing still taking place
by hand in British Columbia, Canada, Rocky are known for their high end quality
of ride and production levels. Rocky have been pushing the envelope in Freeride
mountain biking for years with the original Fro Rider and living legend Wade Simmons,
through to the new crop of innovative riders and young guns shooting it out in
Freeride events all over the world. They have also lead from the front in XC and
enduro event such as the Trans Rockies and have an Olympic Silver medal hanging
in their trophy cabinet. This year Team Rocky Mountain-Haywood’s young riders
Micayla Gatto and Alex Pro have been building some thunder on the DH scene. In
the first round of the Canadian National Series in Bromont, Gatto tore the women’s
field apart with a winning margin of 25 seconds over the next finisher.
To make sure that all the Rocky riders keep on the top step of the podium and
not content with winning margins of 25 seconds, Rocky’s designers set
to work on a new DH frame. The as yet un-named frame landed at Silverfish UK’s
HQ last week and was shipped straight to Rocky Mountain UK rider Scott Beaumont
for testing at the second World Cup in Champery, Switzerland. The following
pictures were taken the second the frame landed and show some of the hand built
detail which has gone into this proto-type frame.
Full pictures to follow later in the week.
So is this a single pivot? Some sort of VPP? If that's a floating brake
why no brake mount? A re-working of the Thrust Link? Speculate
here.
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