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The Wait is over! The Carbon Air 9 is here!
Ultimate in carbon 29er hardtails
Run singlespeed or geared
Niner's hardtail 29er geometry
Carbon monocoque frame with alloy interfaces
Custom carbon layup for ideal stiffness and damping characteristics
Tapered headtube technology
Optimized for 80 to 100mm suspension forks
Internal cable routing
BioCentric EBB and CYA bottom bracket system for maximum drivetrain options
The Carbon Nomad is Here! Come by and check it out.
Santa Cruz Bicycles has taken their freshly revised Nomad long-travel all mountain bike and put it on a high fiber diet. The result? A svelte carbon fiber version dubbed the Nomad-C that’s a lighter, stiffer, stronger bike made for general trail bashing and drop zone crushing.
Santa Cruz media relations man Mike Ferrentino says of the transition to carbon fiber: “We’ve been so impressed with the improved yields in strength and stiffness by using carbon fiber in our Blur and Tallboy, that it was a natural progression. We were able to drop one and a quarter pounds from the Nomad’s frame weight while making it stiffer and stronger…why wouldn’t we do it?”
Scott have just unveiled their 2011 mountain bike line-up under the scorching sun of northern Spain. The biggest change is a new, take-no-prisoners approach when it comes to big-hit all-mountain bikes and race-ready hardtails, in the form of the superlight Scale 899 and Genius LT 185.
Holding the trails to Ransom: The new Genius LT 185
Weight loss is again the name of the game for Scott’s new all-mountain steed, the Genius LT (Long Travel). Replacing the outgoing, five-year old Ransom, the LT shares that bike's big-hitting abilities and more, while borrowing much of its looks and tech from Scott's 150mm-travel Genius range.
With 185mm of travel and a sub-30lb weight the new Genius LT is a true all-mountain machine
At the heart of the frame is an all-new, one-piece IMP5 homogenous carbon front triangle that does away with tube joins and inserts to shave weight and add stiffness. Leaning on the established Genius’s success, the LT uses a new, more bottomless feeling Equalizer 3 pull shock, sitting, as with the Genius, neatly behind the seat tube.
Big volume chambers and an inversion of the shock allow the rear wheel a massive, drop-swallowing 185mm of travel (that’s 20mm more than the Ransom, and 5mm more than its freeride-specific brother, the Voltage FR). At under 30lb (13.6kg), the new LT has the longest travel-to-weight ratio of any bike out there today, and our first, and hot, test rides suggest it has real climbing ability.
Adding to the bike’s flexibility is a flippable High/Low upper shock mount that changes the head angle and bottom bracket offset.
Scale 899: The lightest hardtail ever
Working more of their IMP (Internal Moulding Process) magic, the Swiss carbon meisters have shaved a further 70g from their Scale hardtail to produce a frame that is guaranteed to weigh less than 899g (for small and medium sizes).
Guaranteed? Well, if the unambiguously named Scale 899 frame rolls through their quality control above that figure it gets shelved to use on models lower down the range instead. That means that if you splash out on the new flagship hardtail, you can be sure it beats the weight of its nearest rival, Merida’s Nine-O, by some 30g.
Scott's designers were keen to stress to us that while their goal was to produce the lightest hardtail in the world, they weren't prepared to sacrifice performance or comfort along the way. To reach the target weight, and actually increase stiffness in the frame where desired, Scott’s engineers replaced the outgoing 2010 Scale’s aluminium inserts with a full-carbon structure.
The bottom bracket (with a choice of regular BB92 or BB30 size) is now press-fit, and frame hardware – including dropouts and disc mount inserts – has been moulded out of carbon, giving an even more seamless look to the already stealthy matt black frame. The rear disc tabs are now post mount, meaning that only 160mm or larger discs can be used. The extra heft of the larger discs is offset by the weight shaved from the mounts.
The new Scale gets a full-carbon front triangle with tapered head tube and a 100mm-travel fork
While lateral stiffness at the bottom bracket, head tube and rear triangle has been increased by 15, 10 and 10 percent respectively, the white coats have borrowed technology from Scott's CR1 road bikes to produce a new one-piece, hollow rear triangle that allows a greater degree of vertical flex, increasing comfort by a claimed 80 percent.
(Bike Rader)
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