Pivot shows us the Mach6, Les 27.5 and Vault CX bikes.

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Never go on a dealer tour or holiday with Rory Hitchens from Upgrade Bikes; he’ll have every minute of your day mapped out. That’s what’s currently happening to Daniel from Pivot Cycles who’s over in the UK for a few short days before heading off to Eurobike to show off Pivot’s new models.

Luckily, their trajectory took in Todmorden and we had time to snap a few photos in the dawn light this morning before they packed the bikes back into the van and headed off over the hills to their next dealers. It was worth the early start though as we got to see the new Pivot Les 27.5, the new Vault cyclocross bike and the eagerly-awaited 155mm travel Mach6 carbon.

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Pivot Mach6

Pivot Mach6. Eagerly awaited.
Rory and Daniel, looking cheery despite the 6.30am start.

Pivot has been developing the Mach6 for two years now and it’s just about ready now. The bike here is fully functional and rideable, but Upgrade has to keep it clean and shiny until Eurobike. After that, though, there should be rideable demos available to Pivot dealers around the UK. The Mach6 is the natural progression from the 5.7. It features 27.5in wheels, 155mm of travel and has a full carbon frame. There are neat touches like internal and external dropper routing, rubberised downtube and chainstay protector and ISCG05 tabs. And it comes in a Ford Mustang blue with white, or stealthy black with red or yellow decals.

New Pivot carbon bars coming soon. 740 and, later, 800mm.

Pivot is also moving a little into the components game with some matt finished carbon handlebars. They’re currently 740mm, but wider ones are in the works.

Front mech cable routing (top) and full Stealth Reverb routing (bottom)

 

Carbon-look ‘pleather’ for rock strike protection.

 

Plenty of room for your enduro treads in there.

 

You can just see the leverage-modifying links on the shock mount there.

 

Pivot offers different bolt-in rear ends.

 

Neat front mech blanking plate if you’re going ‘one-by’

 

Fox’ new CTD Float X shock has a handy side-mounted CTD lever

 

‘Don’t tell them about the magic stick!’

The Mach6 should start appearing later in the year and the (full carbon) frame and shock price is £2500. Complete bike builds will start at £4,100 for the XT/SLX build. An XTR build will be £6,500.

Pivot LES 27.5

We’ve just been testing the 29in Pivot LES (as featured in issue 83 of Singletrack) as a super-light, rigid-forked XC monster (and as ridden by Mike Hall on the Great Divide Race). Fear not, the 29in wheeled bike will remain, but Pivot wanted to add another hardtail model to handle the new 27.5in wheel size. The good news for smaller riders is that Pivot is adding an XS frame size so that diminutive riders can try the medium wheels for themselves. Frame size will be 14.5in with a standover of 25.5in.

 

Pivot reckons that ‘getting your race-ready LES under 20lbs will not be an issue’. Nice!
Enjoy those shallow treads while you still can!

 

The 29er (with its XL size) will remain alongside this new mid-wheeler.

The LES 27.5 will be appearing this autumn, priced  the same as the 29er frame – so £1600, with builds from £3,200 to £5,400 for XTR.

This bike was off to a lucky sponsored rider.

Pivot Vault cyclocross bike

Like the look of this beastie then? You’ll have to be quick as there will only be a dozen of them coming in for this cyclocross season. The Vault takes all of Pivot’s carbon hardtail knowhow and puts it into that ‘other’ offroad sport. The Vault is fully future (and retro) -proofed and can run cable or hydraulic discs, and cable or Di2 shifting. It will even let you run cantilevers, thanks to removable plugs on the seatstays and custom fork.

We say ‘Yes please!’

 

Swappable plugs for internal routing cater for cables or wires.

 

Very neat (the neatest we’ve ever seen) removable canti mounts.

 

Big clearance carbon fork was also developed by Pivot.

 

Comin’ atcha…

 

And off again. There’s only one colour choice and the frame and fork will be £1,800, with Ultegra build here costing £3,600.
TRP’s HYRD cable actuated brakes have all the hydraulic gubbins in the caliper.

 

Decent clearance even with 35mm tyres in there.

 

Who’s that shifty-looking bloke fondling that Mach6?

 

 

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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