Newly Released Bikes General

[chief_pete]

New Slash. Went up on a UK website last night but has since been taken down. This is the 7.

 

[Ultra Lord]

Yup, looks like a trek.

 

[HamboCairns]

The ultra-modern hardtails (like that new Kona ESD) are really very limited in scope on what they suit (very steep/very fast descents). The Merida looks like a solid all-round geo, and as @HamboCairns suggests, if measured unsagged would actually still be quite long at sag.

It's why I'm going for the Ragley Big Al rather than the mmmbop.

 

[mike14]

Trek made one of my favourite hardtails, and the 2016(?) Fuel Ex was an awesome bike, but nothing they've put out in the last few years looks interesting at all.

 

[Petero]

The ultra-modern hardtails (like that new Kona ESD) are really very limited in scope on what they suit (very steep/very fast descents). The Merida looks like a solid all-round geo, and as @HamboCairns suggests, if measured unsagged would actually still be quite long at sag.

That's a fair point - it was more a comment on not really following the trend!

 

[beeb]

I like that Trek because it looks like it doesn't have Knock Block. I quite liked a Fuel EX I rode, but no friggen way am I buying a bike with knock-block...

 

[HamboCairns]

I like that Trek because it looks like it doesn't have Knock Block. I quite liked a Fuel EX I rode, but no friggen way am I buying a bike with knock-block...

What's wrong with the knock block?

 

[oliosky]

What's wrong with the knock block?

It was a solution to a problem that never existed.

 

[LPG]

It was a solution to a problem that never existed.

Also makes it very hard to fot bikes in cars that would otherwise fit.

 

[HamboCairns]

Fuck Trek then!

 

[Cardy George]

It was a solution to a problem that never existed.

Ironically, I could've used one on my Procaliber when I crashed it. Pushed the shifter over the top tube, chipping the paint and destroying the Di2 shifter in the process

 

[cokeonspecialtwodollars]

I don't mind knock block, it means that I can do super neat cable runs and have a ready excuse when all the cool kids ask why I can't do bar spins.

 

[SF Trailboy]

Knock block would of saved my steel hardtail from a big ding in the top tube from the shifter, when I binned it hard...

 

[The Reverend]

Knock Block has its benefits, but what is a PITA with it is if you fancy changing stems. You need a specific lockring spacer or you end up with a very limited range of Bontrager stems.

Wouldn't be a deal breaker but other brands get a solution done without it.

 

[pink poodle]

I don't mind knock block, it means that I can do super neat cable runs and have a ready excuse when all the cool kids ask why I can't do bar spins.

Wuss.

Ironically, I could've used one on my Procaliber when I crashed it. Pushed the shifter over the top tube, chipping the paint and destroying the Di2 shifter in the process

Surely it is just a matter of setting up your cock controls better?

 

[ashes_mtb]

I don't mind knock block, it means that I can do super neat cable runs and have a ready excuse when all the cool kids ask why I can't do bar spins.

I just explain to them that I'm shit and scared.

 

[cokeonspecialtwodollars]

Now they just taunt me with "Well if Semen-yuk can do it then why can't you?"

 

[bear the bear]

Ironically, I could've used one on my Procaliber when I crashed it. Pushed the shifter over the top tube, chipping the paint and destroying the Di2 shifter in the process

Wife did the same thing to her bike when she binned it bigly

 

[SDA]

New Slash. Went up on a UK website last night but has since been taken down. This is the 7.
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Slack seat tubes were so last decade

 

[SDA]

It was a solution to a problem that never existed.

Don't knock it till you try it