Sea Otter 2012: Foes Racing

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Foes Racing always has some good stuff to see at the Sea Otter. Its industrial, chunky, shaped frames stand out well against the more organic lines of other bikes.

Here’s the prototype of the new Foes FXR. I can be switched between 6.3 and 7in, will come with a Maxle rear end (and a different ’55mm’ head tube) with a lazy head angle of 65.5°

The bike will ship with a Fox DHX Air, rather than a Curnutt, to keep the costs down. Frame and shock weigh in at 8lbs, so Foes reckons that a 30lb bike is achievable.

 

Foes FXR 2013 proto

 

Chunky welds and a Fifth Element aesthetic

Now something for the 29er fans, here’s the Shaver 29er. It follows the established Shaver 26in and offers 5in or 5.5in travel, a Maxle rear and a 55mm (integrated 1.5in) headset.

 

They won't miss you on this one - Foes Shaver 29er
All up weight is said to be 31lbs with a 7.6lb frame and shock.

More prototypes. This one is for the Shaver Race – it’s a 26in Shaver ‘but built for play’… Foes wouldn’t say if it would make production, replace the Shaver or just be something that all the shop guys ride that you can’t get…

 

 

Here’s the Hydro DH with a Matt Letch approved 62 or 63° head angle…

S.L.A.C.K.

 And finally. Another fun bike, the SSV Prototype – comes in 15in only and is meant to be a jump and play bike for people that love welded stuff. I think that about covers it.

Grr!

 

 

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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