Well not quite...will get it in September 100% Italian (made in turin not Taiwan)175 mm travel with the new RS vivid andfox van 180's up front, lots of kit from these [url= http://www.protone-components.it/catalogo/index.php?cPath=28 ]guys[/url]
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more info [url= http://www.mdebikes.com ]here[/url] so what do youu guys think?
looks pimp,can you only ride it in the wet? how was the test ride?
Tasty.
I'm not a curvey tube fan, but that looks very well thought out and executed.
The Player looks like a cool frame too (apart from the DHXa):
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made in turin not Taiwan
So it'll be like a shopping trolley then!
Very nice looking bike I'm sure it'll be great, but why anyone would still hold the relic of a thought that a Taiwan made frame would be of lesser quality than a European made frame is beyond me.
Do you get to choose the colour?
Lots of nice looking framesets- what colour have you gone for?
This looks cool!
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Not normally a fan of bent tubes, but that looks ace. Pictures when it's built would be cool.
Humm, you must put easily swapable brakes on it to not spoil the lines 😉
(nothing to do with me wanting a test ride indeed 😉 )
Very nice looking bike I'm sure it'll be great, but why anyone would still hold the relic of a thought that a Taiwan made frame would be of lesser quality than a European made frame is beyond me.
nothing wrong with tawain made frames but when a santa cruz fetches 2k a frame and made in taiwan and this one is 1.5 why is a santa cruz so much more expensive?
the colour will be black anodised with red or gold anodised bits..
Juan I will have the carver too, a 150mm travel machine for you to try...
Nice.
This looks fantastic. Looking forward to seeing the full build.
I had a close look at these when I started the "full sus bikes not made in Taiwan" thread, but I never got prices.
Are you in Italy or did you import?
1.5k sounds very reasonable for the level of detail in that frame (linkages/dropouts/forming).
looks nice dude. Saw some MDE stuff awhile back in Finalé. Their later stuff looks better thought out. My only slight concern would be the headtube angle, however thats almost certainly the fault of a wide angle lens being used to shoot it. Talk about level of detail, I love that it has both sets of ISCG holes so you can mount either type of Chain Device. Great if you're coming from a specialized.
Who's the new UK distributor? I take it E**ry is no longer involved.
Not usually a fan of "big bikes" but I really like that one. Seem to have a pretty big range too.
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