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Inspired by a chap from Notre dame?!
There are some lovely looking bikes around at the moment, then there is this!
Nice 😀
I honestly thought it was an e-bike when I saw it.
Nomad looks elegant and well-proportioned by comparison.
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It's to allow piggyback shocks, apparently. Really does ruin the bike.
It's still not as ugly as a Mondraker!
It'd as bit Giant Reign round the BB area too.
They always look a bit like they've sagged after years of too much pie and beers.
It's still not as ugly as a Mondraker!
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I think that Lapierre is minging, actually don't mind the Mondrakers looks.
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It'd as bit Giant Reign round the BB area too.
Yeah, that recent trend where a section of the downtube runs parallel to the ground in front of the BB is something I really dislike the look of.
+1 Mondraker...lovely 🙂
Gone from making ugly bikes that break to ugly bikes that maybe don't.
To be far it has grown on me,did think they rode it into a wall! 😯
the dark colours seam to make it look better (the yellow I saw at the shows looked worse!)
As above because you lot (the customers) like to swap/upgrade shocks etc it is done so you can run piggy back shocks.
Anyway you not going to look at when you ride so and as it such a quick bike, (Adrien Dailly won the overall EWS Junior title in his first year, plus ex world DH champ Nico finished in 5th overall with a couple of podiums) people not going to see it when it you go flying by! 😈
For once it is function over fashion. 😉
I agree with others - the pot belly is the most offending part, and just to fit a bottle in!
Mondraker looks OK to me
Zesty isn't bad looking.
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I'd be wary of any of them though, my old 2011 Spicy 516 got amazing reviews, looked good and rode okay around the road by my LBS - but it was pretty crap as a mountain bike in standard form.