There have been photos flying around the internet of a new full carbon prototype frame that the Madison/Saracen team has been testing at the Val di Sole World Cup – well, the bike is far nearer production than many people thought.
In fact, it is a production bike. And we got some exclusive photos of it on a recent visit to Madison. As you might expect, the carbon frame helps drop a pound or so from the weight of the bike. Plus it looks awesome.
Lots of work has gone into this over the last couple of years
Carbon, carbon and, carbon…
The head badge is about the only non-carbon bit…
The production bike, as you see here, is going to be £4999
With nearly 25 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 32 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.)
Good value…….