a 29er Maverick with modern geo. Still, can't have everything 🙂
Ragley should make a single pivot, full suspension mullet. Like an Orange Switch, but miles cheaper and able to take a water bottle. It would be in keeping with the brand too.
I would really like a modern take on the Yeti ASX:
I'd go 130mm out back, 160mm up front. 64 degree head angle, 77 degree seat tube.
The mud clearing benefits of the elevated chainstay, but with a little progression added by the linkage and better bracing again side loading.
I'd got raw with murdered out graphics and parts.
A modern version of the Yeti ASR5c in 29er flavour would be great. Equally a shorter lighter Liteville 301, again in 29er
Cotic Soul 27.5 again please.
A MK4, internal dropper, boost, thru axles, non-longshot please. Otherwise Curtis would get my money next, which doesn't seem like a bad thing as such.
(Didn’t oboe of the older SC Bullits use threaded an external Bottom bracket for it’s pivot bolt?).
Yup, the last version used a Shimano Hollowtech BB for it's pivot bearing. I can't remember if that was a good or bad thing.
@Tomhoward - Yeah, but I don’t need a modded Fox 40 on the front, just a nice slack 150mm(ish) Pike/Lyrik/36 on the front.
(Didn’t oboe of the older SC Bullits use threaded an external Bottom bracket for it’s pivot bolt?).
Indeed, they did. Nice idea, but every BB ive ever opened to regrease and eek a bit more life out of has been caged, so there are around 12 quite small little balls spaced out by a cage. Better for reducing rolling resistance, but no good for carrying load on a 1/4 rotation back and forth. I cant imagine they lasted very long (even if they were easy to swap out).
Transition Rapture please. As said up there. It’s the same / rebadged as the Traitor Crusade.
It would be a prefect replacement for my cracked Kona Dr Dew. Steel, singlespeedable, would fit all of my outdated components. I wish I could find one in 60cm size. Doesn’t matter about the colour, I’d get one powder coated some gooping colour to camouflage it in amongst my other bikes.
Aren’t they basically the same kind of bike but rebranded as ‘Gravel’ to appeal to a wider market? (Sorry for being cynical about bike industry marketing)
Actually distinctly different things, much in the same way an XC FS bike isn't the same as an enduro bike, but anyway... 😉
I'd like a 120mm stumpy evo with a coil shock 😎
I reckon a Fatbike Orange Alpine could be an amazing bit of kit. Simple, bombproof, bulldozer point and fire capabilities with the grip of a fat bike.
A Whyte e-XXX that didn’t have its own gravitational field would also be much appreciated. Lifting mine over a gate requires a risk assessment.
Ragley should make a single pivot, full suspension mullet. Like an Orange Switch, but miles cheaper and able to take a water bottle. It would be in keeping with the brand too.
Good shout. We need more affordable single-pivot bikes with good geometry, full stop.
Modern version of the Giant VT2. Loved that curved frame tube thing
A modern version of the Yeti ASR5c in 29er flavour would be great
Yeah, that was such a good bike. I have no interest in their SwitchInfinitybollocks bikes at all.
Didn’t Ragley have a few full suspension bikes years ago (I remember seeing the press release but never any in the flesh). They had forks with more travel than the rear end and I remember lots of the reviewers at the time commenting on how they didn’t like that and bikes should have similar front/rear travel (which always makes me laugh in recent years when the same reviews praise over-forking bikes in recent years).
A steel, short travel, single pivot, single speed with moderately progressive geometry for classic UK winter woods riding.
Exactly like a Starling Beady Little Eye, but cheaper and easier to get hold of!
I'd love to see Honda build a new version of their DH bike.
Didn’t Ragley have a few full suspension bikes years ago
Yes, they did. I think they only ever got to prototype stage and were multi-link jobs.
https://www.pinkbike.com/news/Nukeproof-and-Ragley-Eurobike-2011.html
like a Starling Beady Little Eye, but cheaper and easier to get hold of!
I’d love one of these but cheaper and with gears. Steel, single pivot, almost hardtail but not. Ragley would be a great shout for this. Are you listening Ragley?
Quite specific, but a 29+ steel frame singlespeed with sliding dropouts running a 130mm (or thereabouts) fork and with internal dropper routing. Not LLS geo please and more like pre-CEN tubing, so a bit twangy. Oh and bosses only on the down tube and on top of the top tube.
Trek to make a new Remedy 29, that's basically exactly the same as the old remedy 29 carbon except slacker, longer, with better seatpost tubiness, and a proper headset.
Yup an ASR 5 29er or so its a third the price a genesis grapil 29. Though obvs both would need to have the fall in halfiness engineered out
I'm another that missed out on the soda maxes, even had the money at the time, haunted by that choice
Having loved riding my On One Carbon EVO, an upgrade on that.
Boost and 29 inch wheels. Stealth dropper. Not bothered about internal routing.
So many have been mentioned already. New versions of Yeti arc-x, Trek Stache, Cotic Soul would all be greeted with excitement.
A couple of others:
Bring back the Trek 69er or Singular Hummingbird - mullet 27.5/29 with short dual crown fork and updated geo
Yeti world cup xc race bike
An affordable/accessible version of Andrew's Waltworks
A full suspension tandem with modern geo and e-bike components for durability - we're genuinely looking for this as our 26" Ventana feels quite old school
I do like that Waltworks
Pedals bike care had a singlespeed moxie that wasn’t a million miles off the Walt. Not quite there in the chainstay length but not a million miles off!
https://images.app.goo.gl/oUD9x7DXjD4SgnXA7
170mm travel e-gravel bike……
I’d like a current gen Solaris at carbon weight. There are loads of xc weight, fun head angle fs bikes that in the mould of the spur but surprisingly few hardtails to choose from. I want to be able to stick two bottles on it and spend all day on the South Downs way one weekend in the summer, race xc on it the next and still have it feel fun on steep, slippery north downs trails in winter
A full suspension tandem with modern geo and e-bike components for durability – we’re genuinely looking for this as our 26″ Ventana feels quite old school
There is that new Zealand couple who do the DH racing. Contract them to build you one!
i’d like a short travel starling. 120 at the back and front.
i’d also like chromag to make a cheaper version of the arcturian (29+ trail hard tail) and to include medium in the size range.
i love the idea of a carbon 5.
It might just be rose tinted hindsight, but I'd love a modernised version of a Lawhill bike. The rear suspension on my old Schwinn straight 8 was amazing, and given newer geometry, bigger wheels and better components it would be pretty much perfect.
Would love to see a production version of this, with all modern componentry (instead of the old Boxxer).
https://www.pinkbike.com/news/iron-horse-sunday-reborn-the-rebuild-of-a-classic-downhill-bike.html
Wouldn't buy it though.
27.5+/29 P7 in 853. With track ends.
A specialized ‘chisel’, without the nose-down, arse-up race geometry.
Something that’s light and comfortable enough for all-day epic rides, but with 140mm up front when it’s time to get rowdy.
In black, with the ‘specialized’ logo in that yellowy-orange.
Talking about Specialized, I'd actually be really interested in an aluminium Enduro.
With a mullet chip.
And on the same theme, an aluminium Nukeproof Giga - even if I had to do without the gutter-effect downtube.
Also with a mullet chip, obvs.
I'd like some-one, anyone really to make a carbon HT that's a bit rowdy, but isn't a million squillion pounds.. I'm looking at you Yeti and Santa Cruz.
I’ll also echo the 29+ thing… it never got big enough for people on a budget to risk getting one as their main bike.
+(!)1. I bought one (used) intended as a rigid doitall (thinking a quick tyre-upgrade would take to singletrack, parks etc) then realised mine had too-narrow rims to take >2.5”. Budget now spaffed so the plus wheels and tyres remain an expensive dream. It’s a good gravelbeast on 2.2s tho…
@scotroutes ARC-X? I'll second that. And I'll add disc brakes.
But what I'd really like Yeti to make is an aluminium SB140 29er with a threaded BB that weighs no more than 7lb with shock. I love the switchinfinitybollox.
29+ is great now that there are tyres not made out of cheese. Loved the Stache but couldn’t afford to keep replacing rear tyres that kept getting wrecked. Revisited a few years later with a Stooge Dirtbomb and the tyres, although eye wateringly expensive, are holding up fine.
I’d like some-one, anyone really to make a carbon HT that’s a bit rowdy, but isn’t a million squillion pounds.. I’m looking at you Yeti and Santa Cruz.
..and Transition?
Totally agree. Best ride for me at the mo seems to be a carbon HT. Couldn't find one for love nor.. well, money, except 2nd hand Vanquish/Throttle.
Yeah when it comes to hardtails; reasonably priced carbon seems to be only for race or XC bikes only.
Yeah when it comes to hardtails; reasonably priced carbon seems to be only for race or XC bikes only.
Did someone already suggest an updated On One C456?
A 29in version with modern trail bike geometry (and hopefully still with the original £400 price tag).
following on from the "can i single speed my Orange five" thread:
A "Play" downhill bike. (ie, not for racing)
Singlespeed specific, for reliable, rattle free, low maintenance priority.
Suspension designed to primarily negate brake input and be as active as possible, while minimising maintanence requirements. (as few bearings as possible, and where they are required nice chunky ones)
Bikes that come with 50% off.
A “Play” downhill bike. (ie, not for racing)
Singlespeed specific, for reliable, rattle free, low maintenance priority.
www.starlingcycles.com/bikes/sturn/