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Am I just late to the party or is the box above both bike models on the home page a new addition? Something exciting is coming tomorrow apparently!
short travel carbon 29er?
I'm hesitant on the carbon concept but I reckon it wreaks of 29er, nice to see them expanding and the benefits of bigger wheels are hard to ignore but i'll keep swooning after a one20 for now
As long as it's not making my new 145 obsolete I don't mind!
29er perhaps - given the current push on them by the industry? Unless they're going to make a carbon Aeris.
If the company has reached the size where it can produce carbon frames then that's great, there's a lot of initial investment required. Bet the frame will still be half the price of most carbon frames out there!
Long travel 29er I reckon.
Really hope it's a long travel 29er! I'll be pressing the order button if it is.
I'm betting mid-travel 29er, 130mm at the back. Or maybe a 29er hardtail...
I have absolutely no idea, but I'd be very interesting in test riding a Bird 130-140mm 29er.
I've given up holding out for the steel hardtail 🙂
I remember Bird Ben making a hint about a 29er HT.
It seems pretty unanimous that people want/think it to be a 29er of some guise, not sure why but I think a medium travel full suss or hardtail is the most plausible. Feel the UK is better suited to that than a long travel 29er but I've very limited experience admittedly
I heard rumours from someone at Swinley that someone from bird had been ripping around on a bare 29er full Susser.
That would be nice !!
If it's a 29er full suspension bike around 140/150 travel I could t wait any longer...gutted if it is
I've been holding out for the Whyte S150 before deciding between that and a Bird 145. If this is a full suss 29er I'll almost certainly get one.
It's Caroline Lucas as Prime Minister
I'll be checking the website occasionally but nothing yet, I'd hope it would be released around 9am but that seems far less exciting than at a random point throughout the day...
Oh interesting.... BEN DON'T KEEP US WAITING TOO LONG. 🙂
I Have held off buying into the 650 fad as I have ridden quite a few bikes now and for me they just don't offer anywhere near the benefits that bigger wheels offer (all my bikes are now 29ers). If this is some kind of 29" platform then this is great news... Now the most important question - what colour is it?
Also interested to see what it is. 29er 140/150 travel seems to be what most are hoping for!
It's [s]Caroline Lucas[/s] Renton as Prime Minister
130-140 mm full suss 29er would have? me very interested, more likely either carbon aeris or 29 ht, ooohh maybe kids bikes
pressing refresh wildly. But at the same time hoping it's nothing I want too much because I spent all of my money on the Vitus.
Nobeerinthefridge - Member
It's Caroline Lucas Renton as Prime Minister
Can you imagine the policy chaos?
"We're going to do x, that's what this country needs" "actually x isn't right, let's do something else"
It'd be like watching Diane Abbot give a lecture on quantum mechanics.
[Edit] Or frauline May in a 15second cassetteboy style mashup.[/edit]
They're probably late publishing it as they're hurriedly trying to jam 29in wheels into the 650b frame they were going to reveal, having read this thread.
Just remove the tyres for a quick fix and go the same way as companies do with pedals, that'll get it to fit...
27.5+ Unicycle 😀 ... with a dropper post 😮
I guess they're all down the polling station still.
Had a play with the Zero TR builder while I was on there and spotted a Race Face Aeffect Dropper with 150mm drop. Where do I buy this? Same lever as the brand x/tranz x offerings and only £150.
Anyone know anything about these? Nothing on the RF site.
I saw the same when building up an aeris one20, have that over a reverb any day
I know I'm just being impatient but if they don't hurry it'll be the 9th!
First I hoped for 9am, now 12, I imagine Ben sitting there enjoying the tension!
Or shitting it because wordpress has ****ed up on him
2pm according to their Facebook comments........
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It isn't that I want a 29er, it's just that they already make two awesome 27.5 hardtails and two awesome 27.5 full-sussers. Obvious gap is obvious!
14:00s been and gone. Nothing...
It isn't that I want a 29er, it's just that they already make two awesome 27.5 hardtails and two awesome 27.5 full-sussers. Obvious gap is obvious!
26'er comeback!
I told you Wordpress would be to blame
3pm now according to the facebook page
It's going to be a let down now whatever it is.
How do you come to that conclusion km79 ??
Most things usually are when you build your dream machine in your head whilst waiting.
I'm fairly sure it's an e-bike, engineered to rip up trail centre KOMs.
It's going to be shorter, taller, steeper for sure.
It's the way forward I tell you 😉
3 x 9
Perhaps he's going to announce how he voted?
It's like going on a blind date, everyone's going to be disappointed when a fat Bird turns up.
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It's like going on a blind date, everyone's going to be disappointed when a fat Bird turns up.
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It's like going on a blind date, everyone's going to be disappointed when a fat Bird turns up.
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Chubby compatible at the most, surely?
Foray into Road bikes, perhaps...?
Foray into Road bikes, perhaps...?
Exciting?
Road bikes... Good God please no. Just no. No no no no no no no.
No.
8 more minutes and I will check again
Chubby compatible at the most, surely?
Well it's going to be a 29er so possibly.
Unless it's a long, low, slack road bike.
Ebike.
No Swinley KoM will be safe.
There wasn't an option on my ballot so I made an extra box for a Bird 29er with 130-140mm travel.
If we get a strong and stable road bike, I'll be very disappointed.
Worst. Launch. Ever.
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3.00 ???....
3pm Los Angeles 😉
I'm going with GX Eagle, as someone on the FB page suggested.
I read that as Bird excrement 😕
I'm going with GX Eagle, as someone on the FB page suggested.
really...for ^^^ much fuss 😥
Me too.
Aeris 120 GX Eagle 12 speed is one of their listed specs (on the mobile site, if not desktop site)
Ben presently
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Bird Website Excitement to Bird Website Excrement in 5 minutes flat.
If it had come out before 3pm, I'd have loved it.
Now, I'm not so sure.
Price is alright though innit. I've only just gone to 11 speed, so won't be changing soon, but I like the look and sound of that.
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Yeah, perhaps a little disappointing as product launches go. Not that this can currently be called a launch, more of a failed take off...
It's more unpredictable than the other thing going on today.
SRAM have probably embargoed it until Pinkbike have got the 10,000 page views that they payed for being 'exclusive'.
If it had come out before 3pm, I'd have loved it.
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Exclusive deal on Corbyn's state regulation bikes.
Has one of their competitors got a special deal on today they are trying to ruin?
Why would Bird make a fuss over the launch of GX eagle? Can understand first look articles on STW/BikeRadar/PinkBike but surely Bird wouldn't be any more excited to stock it than say Cotic, CRC or Wiggle or most of the shops that'll be selling it?
Ok so they have just announced GX eagle on their fb page. I hope that turns out to be the biggest disappointment of the day.
GX EAGLE 12 SPEED BIKES
<leaves the room>
Wow, let down!
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Ok so they have just announced GX eagle on their fb page. I hope that turns out to be the biggest disappointment of the day.
This may not be true, if you count news at 4am tomorrow as "today".