
David Turner’s been a friend of Singletrack magazine for years and we always make sure that we get to see him at Interbike. Turner never comes out with new bikes until they’re ready, regardless of model years. That’s whey there’s no RFX on show here, despite him showing off a prototype of a revamped RFX back in 2010 he’s not felt ready to bring it into production yet. There aren’t any carbon bikes on show today either, though there might well be one in the works…
http://vimeo.com/29664300
All of the improvements on show today are sensible incremental improvements. Production bikes are expected to start appearing at the very end of the year.
Turner Flux
The 4in Flux 26in bike gains a bigger top tube for stiffness, has the 44mm head tube and gains neat cable and hose management via some bolt-on guides as Mr Turner was annoyed at seeing so many bad, sloppy (and sharp!) zip-tie jobs… All models gain a 142mm back end.



Turner Sultan
Turner’s sole 29in wheel bike gains the 142mm back end and the neater cabling. All the bikes are available in raw finish, black powdercoat and the one colour per model anodise that you see here, so blue for the Sultan, orange for the 5Spot, green for the DHR and red for the Flux.


Turner 5 Spot
Turner’s do-everything trail bike also gains the neat cabling and the thru-axle back end. Here’s the complicated non-drive side dropout and post mount brake, er, mount, complete with trunnion bolts. Not so much for the hamfisted mechanic, as we earlier reported, but in case of truly massive forces on the brake mounts caused by (intentional or not) back-hops or heavy back-end trials-style landings.






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btw, I just had a shufty on the turner site, they have 2011 flux sultan and 5spot framesets or with 2012 build kit on special. that raw finish looks great …. must … resist
“Gusset and super neat(ish) welding” minor correction. For super neat welding see Nicolai 🙂
NOOooooooooo,
Swoopy down tube is horrible 🙁
I liked the look of Turners’ for their old fashioned straight tubes.