For mountain bike UCI is no limit on weight, but if it were, then it's safe to say that the two new bike Open outlawed.
This pair hardtail 29ers, exhibited at Eurobike ( one fully hard, the second – with spring fork 60 mm stroke), weigh less than 6.8 kg – UCI minimum allowable weight for road bike.
Rigid Open weighs 6.4 kg, while his companion with a soft plug – 6.7 kg.
Both bikes are assembled using passive components and wheels from the German company AX Lightness, other equipment SRAM XX1. Lauf TR29 suspension fork that weighs 990 grams, it uses carbon fiber instead of traditional springs. Tyres for bicycles Schwalbe Furious Fred, while the connecting rods Clavicula.
«We made these bikes because they could», explained co-founder of Open ( and former founder of Cervelo) Gerard Vroom. «They are extremely lightweight but still bikes, not ahtungovye invention which scared to sit down. Racing bikes These are fully functional and ready to compete».
Frame weight 0-1.0, which is collected on the basis of these bikes, a little less than 900 grams in size L.
Vroom also gave some comments to plug Lauf: «I think the biggest advantage of this model is that it reacts instantly, usually there is a small delay, but not in these forks. Tiny bumps on these forks react much faster than conventional forks. but still need to do some fatigue test, before we start mass use Lauf forks on our bikes».
Open until the bike is sold fully assembled, at the moment you can only buy frameset with passive elements, without the transmission, wheels and brakes, its price is $6,700. Bike Open with a soft plug is not sold at all, it is to demonstrate the concept.
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