I’ve waited for Liteville to bring out a shorter travel lightweight bike for years, eventually give up last month and bought a Stumpjumper. Then they drop this……
150mm front, 130mm rear carbon frame weighing 2kg. Probably lighter if you remove the KISS system. I’m consoling myself with the fact it won’t be available In the Uk and it’ll be expensive……. Looks fantastic though 😎
Details part way down: https://www.pinkbike.com/news/brians-day-1-randoms-eurobike-2023.html
Starts around 10k according to the pinkbike vid. Certainly not cheap, does look good.
Certainly not cheap, does look good.
I'm not convinced that trying to make carbon look like pressed steel is the look I'd aiming for, each to their own I guess.
Liteville 301 aka The Nutcracker.
EDIT: Just noticed it has a layback seatpost. Not seen one of those on an MTB in a while.
The Stumpy might be a better looking thing that that Liteville too...
Really like the look of that little Rocky Mountain Flow.
@devash 10yrs of riding a 301, everything is still intact 😉
The layback seatpost is an Eightpins dropper. It’s got layback to allow the seat tube to be further forward for increased tyre clearance and the seat post puts you back in the correct position. Liteville have used this for years.
does look good.
You sure about that? I think it looks awful. Eye of the beholder I suppose.
Looks are clearly in the eye of the beholder - it isn't ticking any boxes for me. Is short travel now up to 150mm? Saying that, it does look like it will be fast...so I'm not put off by it, but it doesn't seem to be jumping out to me.
I've said it before, but that Grim Donut things has a seriously scary head tube angle that looks like it'll just snap without much effort. Last few times I've mentioned this, I've been bashed down by 'engineers' (I'm saying 'engineers' as I've no idea what the other posters do for a living, but I'm guessing from their responses that they are engineers), which is fine, but visually, it looks very wrong (in my view).
I’m taking the rear travel of 130mm as being short (ish!) The previous generations have been 160mm. The longer fork doesn’t bother me.
Sorry but the Liteville doesn't do it for me. This though is lovely:
it's marginally less ugly than the new Orange monstrosity.
Liteville used to have a really nice aesthetic, creating FS bikes that looked a bit like hardtails. This is, what one might politely call, a departure from the older look.
@weeksy the one with the bait box bodged in by the bottom bracket? That thing is awful
Like the look of that liteville, also like the orange.
Wouldn't buy either though
Ah! I thought you meant the fulllsus with the storage
This looks lovely and the build sounds interesting as well .
I'd kind of got the impression that high pivots were more useful on the longer end of the travel range but maybe not .
Kink in the TT messes up the look.
Interesting it can accommodate 2x bottle cages on the downtube. My Cotic HT has that feature and it's super handy.
This looks lovely and the build sounds interesting as well .
It's stunning, because it's mostly brushed metal rather than the lugged carbon the title claims 😀