Maxlight’s New FF29, er, 29er

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Here are a few pics from Core Bike to cheer up your Monday morning. They show the ‘nearly final’ prototype 29er from Kinesis. Like its stablemates, the Crosslight and Racelight, it’ll be called the Maxlight and should be out late spring. This bike here is unpainted and had stickers glued on it, but the final version will come in three colours.

Near enough how it's going to look. Only it'll have paint...

 

Here's the prototype 29er rigid fork from Kinesis. Full carbon, 490mm, tapered and a claimed 590g. £274.99

 

Production headtube will be a hair longer to fit the taper of tapered forks better

 

Estimated frame weight is 1600g for a 39.5cm frame.

 

Ignore this dropout, it'll change. That's what prototypes are for...

Kinesis UK is very excited about the new bike and reckon it’s going to be a ‘grin inducing… trail destroyer’ for aggressive trail riders. So expect to be able to run 120mm forks and a dropper post if you like. Geometry is a fast 72/74. It’ll come in black, grey and green and will cost £499.99 for the frame, or there’ll be a number of ‘chassis’ part builds which will include the neat carbon rigid fork or an X-Fusion suspension fork. Reynolds carbon trail wheels are also a possibility…

 

Check out www.kinesisbikes.co.uk/products/maxlight for more details in a month…

 

 

Chipps Chippendale

Singletrackworld's Editor At Large

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.)

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