New Lapierre Downhill Bike Launches At Fort William

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On the eve of Fort William World Cup, Lapierre chose to launch its new downhill bike. It’s been completely redesigned and the prototype will be raced this weekend under Emmeline Ragot. The other riders of Team Lapierre Gravity Republic will also be equipped with their new machine shortly.

The DH Team in blue and the DH727 in red will be available at Lapierre dealers from October.

In the meantime, let’s have a quick look at the spec, before the World Cup frenzy begins…

The bike has been redesigned around Lapierre’s new SLT (Supra Link Technology) and perhaps unsurprisingly, now runs 27.5in wheels. At its heart, the aluminium frame is a 210mm single pivot design. The clever suspension linkage makes it supple on the little bits and ‘ultra progressive’ as it gets to the end of the travel.

New Lapierre downhill bike.
It’s more complicated than it looks
Plenty of mud clearance
SRAM’s XO DH groupset
Seven speed, race bike.

 

Head angle is 63.7°, adjustable +/- a degree.

That trail in the background looks familiar…
Lapierre makes no apologies for saying it was inspired by motocross bike design
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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