For those of you interested, here after many years in the planning, saving and getting round to it is my completed Helius AC 29er pinion

Very nice, how is the pinion on the trails?

Interesting bike, is it really short or is it just the first photo that makes it look that way?

Also, nice to see a Roox Roller-Coaster making a comeback!

ITs got a 24.5inch tt so probably just the photo….

Only picked it up this morning taking it for a spin tomorrow so will report back. but round the car garden, gripshift feels weird and the silence feels weird

It’s nice. I was browsing the Nicolai website the other day (unto herself saw me and told me to forget it). Perhaps this is the place to ask…why do they write the letters backwards?

That looks brilliant, I’d love to try a gearbox bike.

Well from April it will be based in Devon if that’s close. More then welcome to take it for a ride

ITs got a 24.5inch tt so probably just the photo….

Lovely looking bike, interested in one of these myself. Is that a large frame then? How tall are you?

It’s an Xl frame, with the seatube cut down by 75mm

In 6ft 3 but have short legs so I run a shorter seatube.

Very cool

Like that. Nice to see something a bit different.

I want a Nicolai so bad.

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I want a Nicolai so bad.

I have one. Spend too much time wondering how to somehow get another one.

Cor. That is an impressive bit of machinery. Lovely.

why do they write the letters backwards?

Never noticed until you pointed it out. Why guys, why?

Lovely – loving that colour scheme

My ancient Helius FR says hello 🙂

Very nice

I promised myself a Nicolai for my birthday, now 3 years ago…….

one day

Beautiful!

I have one. Spend too much time wondering how to somehow get another one.

Very nice

I promised myself a Nicolai for my birthday, now 3 years ago…….

one day

I have a saved eBay search alert for a 16″ Argon.

that does look beautiful

18 bikes in hope have a hardtail pinion bike they built available for demo if folk want to try a gearbox out…

Yup anybody is more then welcome to throw a leg over any of my Nicolais

why do they write the letters backwards?

Never noticed until you pointed it out. Why guys, why?

I guess no one knows.

If anyone is interested I have a medium Helius Cc frame for sale!!!!!

Backwoods letters? It looks right when you look at your reflection in the shop widows as you ride past. 8)

I’ve just acquired an old Nicolai frame at a bike jumble – was determined not to buy anything, was there to sell, but stopped to admire the pretty welding and one thing led to another 😉

Why the double chain guide thing? The upper wheel makes sense for more chain wrap/chain security, but why the second one ‘unwrapping’ it slightly from the sprocket?

It’s a sprung tensioner to accommodate chain growth. A bit like a rear mech but at the front

Looks like the Paul’s one?

As someone who is running a singlespeed full suspension, it looks like the chain could be a couple of links shorter to start with

I saw a very nice looking Eighteen Bikes custom frame with Pinion gearbox in their shop window in Hope last weekend. I wanted to give them the third degree all about it, but they were very tied up selling a Santa Cruz to someone so I went for coffee and cake, and carried on with my hike.

Sorry if we were busy when you popped by Tim, feel free to ask away on email – info@18bikes.co.uk

The letters are backwards because the person who did the original artwork forgot to reverse them, to counteract the fact that the printing process reverses the letters. By the time they realised, the cost of replacing 10,000 stickers was prohibitive, so they just pretended to be trendy and used them anyway.

If you believe that, you’ll believe anything, as simply printing it backwards would actually spell ‘ialocin’.

(well, the bit about being trendy may be right)