The front suspension of the wild looking Cycleworks SCW 1 enduro bike has 150-mm travel and the new design with improved head angle maintains a more consistent front-center length, increases trail, and minimizes brake dive by about 40-percent. Lately, bike suspension has been in the spotlight. Why? This is because riders are getting adventurous and more people want to take their bikes off the beaten trails. However, not every bike can adapt to off-road and rough terrain. Special enduro bikes…
With their big ugly welds, aluminum frame MTB generally isn’t quite as pretty as their carbon fiber or titanium counterparts. That said, the German-made Frace F160 weighing 16,3 kg is an exception, as its frame is milled from a solid block of aluminum. Its MTB frame starts life as a 70kg slab of 7075 aluminum that quickly gets turned into the mainframe. It may sound like this leaves a lot of waste but the off-cut material then gets used for…
Mountain Bees Bike from German company Altinsoy Manufaktur with a frame made from a “special light alloy” has a completely modular design that lets you quickly change over from hardtail to full suspension. You also can easily adjust its sizing and positioning. Mountain Bees Bike makes clear that it’s not a typical bicycle from the moment it catches your eye, but it’s the modular design that really distinguishes it from the analogy. It has a beefy trellis-style frame. The bike…