The nice peeps at Pipedream have sent news of two new frames in three frame materials. They’ve got a 29er in 853 and Ti flavour; the Skookum and a hardnut 160mm hardtail; the Moxie built with Reynolds 631
Here’s their words straight from the horse’s mouth keyboard.
Introducing the all new Pipedream Skookum 29er 853 and Ti and the Pipedream Moxie R631.
Pipedream Skookum R853 29er
Price: £395 (Frame)
Pipedream Skookum Ti
Price: £989 (Frame)
Introducing the Moxie – 160mm Hardnut HT.
Price: TBC
It was conceived as a ‘garage project’ – experimental, a Sirius on steroids, a bike we could grab when we wanted to flirt with insanity, yet live to tell the tale.With no plans to build any more than a couple, we took it to the Cycle Show anyway and to our surprise found ourselves listening to the frequent song, “It’s exactly what I’m looking for. When is it available?” Only problem was, the tubing we needed to build the frame to our spec’ was not available – worse still, not even being made – until now.
The build you see is the prototype and has noticeably different tubes and a slacker geometry than its Sirius R853 and Scion R853 siblings and will happily run a 160mm travel fork.
It’s just as capable as our other frames for trail riding but ‘juiced up’ it’s a genuine alternative DH session bike for those days when the uplifts aren’t running. Yes, you can ride this bike uphill without bursting a blood vessel.
The test bike
In order to show off the Moxie’s versatility, we’ve built up a test bike dressed with 160mm travel Marzzochi 55s up front, some lovely Hope AM SP4 hoops (with super grippy Maxxis High Rollers) and finished off with a mix of FSA Gravity components (including a 1 x 9 Gravity MotoX chainset and bashring), it’s ready for insanity!
Using our favourite geometry calculator, the vital statistics read:
Head Tube Angle: 65.75°
Seat Tube Angle: 67.75°
Fork Axle-Crown: 545 mm (static/unsagged)
Top Tube Length (effective): 595 mm
Wheelbase: 1088mm
Chainstay Length: 413 (+16mm, slider)
Seatpost: 30.9mm
Seat Tube Collar: 34.9mm
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Ti Skookum with Rohloff and belt-drive please!
That hardnut is like an Alpine and a PA Classic mating result.
Got the Ti 26 bike, rides beautifully. Possibly my fav bike.
Got my eye on the 29’er though, just cuz I can’t sit still.
853 Skookum @ £395 looks like a great deal
Dammit – if I’d known about the 853 Skookum about 5 weeks ago I’d not be riding a Genesis Fortitude now …. it’s even the right colour!
Think there is a deal for pre orders on the 29r. 10% iirc.
2 questions
1; does the Ti version have the belt drive coupling (the website isn’t clear, from what I can see)
2; what’s with the note on the spec; “For the USA, this frame does not have the model name ‘Skookum’” even Urban Dictionary can’t turn up anything especially naughty, aside from some highly suspect and probably apocryphal sex act involving an entire street full of nekid people and chicken burritos. I’m off to check that with my American friends. should be fun
Oh, and the Moxie? No. stop it. now.
…. well OK if you have to but just be sure you’re protected hmkay?
“to run a fork up to 120mm for you crazy folk”
erm,
what year is this?
“you can ride this bike uphill without bursting a blood vessel”
with that seat angle?
Even if the fork could be dropped 40-45mm its still going to be something like 69.5deg’s?
“this bike loves to be ridden hard”
is it just me or….