Throwback Thursday: Pinarello's 2012 Dogma XC Hardtail with PinaFit XX9 Geometry
After launching its new Dogma XC race bike today, one launch that Pinarello may want to keep in the history books is its 2012 hardtail of the same name.
With looks that only a mother could love, the 2012 Dogma XC hardtail used a unique seatstay system with an asymmetrical design that was claimed to reduce vibrations. While many frame designs go for smooth and sleek seatpost clamp, the designer for this model brought their inspiration from a stem face plate. Pinarello said this was them looking at a previously overlooked area of design and their take was a revolutionary design reducing stress in a critical area. The new bike does not use this design.
To add to its quirky looks Pinarello decided to add what it called a ForkStopper to the downtube that would create a barrier from the fork connecting with the carbon frame. Adding to the long list of different choices the bike was the use of Torayca Nanoalloy technology, this was said to use nano-particles in the carbon fiber mesh that were claimed to explode on impact to stop the fibers from breaking.
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did Pinarello not pay their bill for the new media coverage or someone on their marketing team beat Ed in Monopoly?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yn7bTKb48S0
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXJKdh1KZ0w
You could almost believe some of the technology behind the marketing speak until they get to the part where they blame all pedal bob on the sixth pivot point near the rear axle and then suggest that using a flex stay instead magically eliminated ALL pedal bob. Not only were there other flex-stay bikes around that time that demonstrated otherwise, but nobody who gave it a moment's thought would ever think that using a flex point instead of a pivot point would somehow change the fundamental properties of a suspension linkage. That's the moment in the video where they really give away that they're not just messing with some crazy finite element analysis and cutting edge design ideas and marketing them poorly, but are actually just flinging BS by the handfull.
Indeed!
You gonna post about the Delta V when Cannondale refreshes the Scalpel?