Mystery shock aboard a carbon Specialized Demo 8. The yellow spring looks like what is commonly found on Ohlins shocks, the company Cane Creek worked with to develop the Double Barrel.
Jill Kintner and her Norco Aurum.
Cedric Gracia gives a wild wolf salute while standing with his Santa Cruz V10.
If it isn't broke don't try and fix it. The glory is an awesome bike. I would rather see them stay with a design that works and tweak the geometry instead of putting out a totally new design that might take away from its performance.
@robc10 -- the frame actually has had major changes for 2013, head angle majorly slackened from 65.5 to 63.5, bb lowered and wheelbase lengthened. The frame design itself might look old, but I can tell you it rides like a dream as I am a proud owner.
The same thought occurred to me. It's that rear triangle. The angle between CS and SS is markedly larger than any of the other frame designs featured here and the rocker has shorter arms...not necessarily a bad thing, it's just not a la mode.
Ahhhhh, finally......dual crows, fat tires, and lots of travel....THESE are the bikes we've been waiting to see. I don't know about everyone else, but I was getting kind of tired of all the '29er chatter. Back to the big bikes for the big trails...
You know what? Now that I think about it, I guess there was a bit too much 29er talk in the recent past. Good to get back to the awesomeness of downhill!
ok, someone is running an ohlins shock. but we don't care about it unless we know who's running it!
if it's some random joe then no one cares. if it's aaron gwin we deserve to prepare ourselves for another contract violation.
That was Mitch Ropelato's bike just to clarify for anyone. And it's interesting hearing the athletes talk about it. As Mitch himself put it. "We are on a need to know basis with what is going on with the shock and by need to know, we don't know anything".
Yeah but without ohlins there wouldn't be a ccdb. Cane creek had licencing rights for something like 2 years before ohlins released their version. The ccdb is aohlins shock funded by cane creek. However I agree with you about the new ohlins bit.
I don't know. As I'm sure your probably aware they do fork internals for all sorts of motor bikes so it wouldn't be too hard for them to make either killer internals or even a full fork.
Don't Creek already make some of Ohlins moto shocks as well as the CCDB? This could be an expansion of that, Ohlins branded mtb parts, manufactured by Cane Creek.
yea,i want to see what Ohlins has byitself..nothing against C.C.,they both have build shops in the same area of the blue ridge mtns in north carolina so thats probably why they came togeather on the DB ..cane creek guys probobly knew that the guys at Ohlins whould have every tool to test& make a great shock better..I want to se what Ohlins does on its own desighn...
Ohlins would make the best shocks in the game if they got into the mtn bike market,best suspinsion ever!i know this for a fact bcecause i lived right behind one of their build shops in NC very nice stuff comming from them if they get into mtn biking QUALITY so much bike porn,i want to ride an emerald DVO....hmm..
Thanks, auto correct..
This could be an expansion of that, Ohlins branded mtb parts, manufactured by Cane Creek.
great bikes tho' i would buy em' all if had the money )
Cant wait to see a new carbon gt.
And then u have the operator(not pictured), my word!