There’s a certain amount of BNG* with the new Race Face range, but among the flashy graphics, there’s some stuff to see if you dig deep enough.
Actually, having dug. There’s not really a great deal to see apart from some nice new graphics.
Pink is definitely in, as seen by this Knolly monster outside the Race Face booth…
Deus crank and 'half bash' that attaches to via regular long chainring bolts and saves your chainring teeth without adding huge amounts of weight.
Race Face Deus bars in new colours.Deus cranks in limited finishes. Hmm, perhaps it IS all about new graphics.Now this is newish. Race Face Respond - an affordable, forged alloy set of components.
Atlas in a limited blue finish. There's a theme here...Race Face grips in thin (the Sniper) and thick (the Strafe) thicknessesA nice Canadian theme to the DH stemsFinally, something that's actually changed - the Atlas FR bar now has 8° sweep instead of the previous 9° due to rider feedback. The wraparound graphics too are so that the logo shows up better in photos.And this is, yes, pink...Atlas SL bolt-on stem in limited pink.There's a whole set of limited pink components.
With 23 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.)
respond affordable?
i thought they were 150 quid
functionality on them sounds great but 40 quid deores are affordable!
cranks im talking about
The Respond cranks are good. Have got them on a new Trek.
I do like that half-bash, clever.
The Half-Bash is nice…but £40 (from CRC)?!!?
I wonder if they’ll fret the splines away to nothing in just over a year like my Evolve XC cranks did?
Any chance they’re BB cups are better sealed nowadays? Or do they now come in pink?
Nice stuff, some of the colours are nasty though