PressCamp 2013: Turner’s New Flux

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The Turner Flux has been in the range for a long time. First as a 100mm, 26in wheeled XC bike with a four bar Horst link suspension, then an ICT ‘faux bar’ linkage and then as a 100mm XC bike with a DW Link. It’s now evolved again to fit 27.5in wheels and along the way has gained a few other touches. Oh, and 20mm…

The new Turner Flux

The 27.5in wheels aren’t immediately obvious, but what is striking is the (cold worked, not hydroformed) butted and curved top tube. A first for Turner. There’s an untapered head tube, routing for a (non-Stealth) dropper and a few other tweaks. The travel has increased to 120mm.

Schwalbe tyres. Didn’t they used to say 650? Now say 27.5

This adds to the existing 27.5in Burner with its 140mm travel. The idea of the Flux is as a more XC and marathon use, rather than the more burly Burner or the racier, 100mm new carbon Czar. The tubes are all worked and welded in the USA and are ‘being welded at the moment’ so Turner expects them to start arriving in July. When we get a price and ETA from UK importers, Silverfish, we’ll let you know.

We’ll be off testing this bike for a few hours tomorrow, so we’ll let you know how it rides.

Mr Turner himself (David, never Dave) seems quite happy with things.
Chipps Chippendale

Singletrackworld's Editor At Large

With 22 years as Editor of Singletrack World Magazine, Chipps is the longest-running mountain bike magazine editor in the world. He started in the bike trade in 1990 and became a full time mountain bike journalist at the start of 1994. Over the last 30 years as a bike writer and photographer, he has seen mountain bike culture flourish, strengthen and diversify and bike technology go from rigid steel frames to fully suspended carbon fibre (and sometimes back to rigid steel as well.)

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Comments (3)

    AlexSimonAlexSimon June 20, 2013 at 8:46 am

    Is there a frame-only bike launch that doesn’t involve ENVE these days!?

    Slightly bigger wheels make the rear triangle look tiny!
    Always had a soft spot for Turners, but never had one.

    Their recent price adjustment in the UK has got me thinking about a raw Burner though.

    Now all they need to do is stop supplying Wiggle/Merlin so that they retain some value.

    robownsrobowns June 20, 2013 at 10:13 pm

    That is one ugly bike and I usually like the industrial look.

    benjibenji June 21, 2013 at 9:10 am

    Mr Turner stood wearing his SoCal Cyclocross t-shirt, so please built a cyclocross frame, at least in that genre we have standardized wheel sizes.

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