The Focus bikes . com link takes you to POC consort MTB Dungarees, not to focus bikes.

Bike wise, glad someone agrees with me on internally mounted cables. Prefer everything as much as poss to be easier to get at.

That stem and the idea behind it needs to be shot into space/thrown into the neartest large body of water.

The sooner mtbs come out of this blasted ” internal cable routing” phase the better.
I’m really struggling to understand which oaf at Focus asked himself how he could make his bikes better and came up with that shit.

Probably the same imbecile that invented the swat holder tbf 🙄

Ooh yes, please. Id like a stupid little fiddly compartment that doesn’t come close to holding all my riding kit and makes the bike itself heavier and/ or weaker.

Great

The whole idea of that stem really annoys me, not being able to change stem or spacers or headset without disconnecting all the cables and brakes is a total dealbreaker – was bad enough on their e-bikes, but now they’ve decided to blight their whole range with it

They’re normally split spacers on integrated stem bikes so you can add/remove them very easily.

On my orbea, with integrated cables, the cables route behind a bolt on plate under the stem which means you can change the stem without disconnecting cables, but they’ve not done that on this bike – which seems shame as it makes it more complex to work on.

They’ve also managed to make their top end carbon trailbike weigh 35lbs, and stuck a Pressfit BB on it too, but the stem is so bad tha tpeople have barely noticed those things

Small mercies and all that, eh? 😂