Bikes you wish brands would make

Also Alan Millyard to make me one of his bikes (complete with his front and rear suspension & internal drive train) but with a single crown fork and 150ish travel.

The DH bike has 150mm travel already…

I think it was actually built by Specialized, the new Status 140/160. HArd to find, even harder to Demo… but yeah, one of those.

So i bought it 😀

There are probably quite a few for me, but in terms of bikes I might buy immediately…

A Privateer with 170mm-ish rear travel, and a mullet chip.

A Kenevo Sl with a removal internal battery and sell 300wh-800wh options so you can tailor the range. That would be an ebike killer.

Someone to make a relatively fast, light road frame (preferably aluminium) designed around deep drop calliper brakes and 32mm tyres. It might seem niche but I bet if you market it right (lighter and cheaper than a disc brake equivalent) you could carve out a wee market.

That said, I think I just saw a titanium Dolan reviewed elsewhere that does pretty much this ^

a 29er Maverick with modern geo. Still, can’t have everything 🙂

Ragley should make a single pivot, full suspension mullet. Like an Orange Switch, but miles cheaper and able to take a water bottle. It would be in keeping with the brand too.

I would really like a modern take on the Yeti ASX:

I’d go 130mm out back, 160mm up front. 64 degree head angle, 77 degree seat tube.

The mud clearing benefits of the elevated chainstay, but with a little progression added by the linkage and better bracing again side loading.

I’d got raw with murdered out graphics and parts.

A modern version of the Yeti ASR5c in 29er flavour would be great. Equally a shorter lighter Liteville 301, again in 29er

Cotic Soul 27.5 again please.

A MK4, internal dropper, boost, thru axles, non-longshot please. Otherwise Curtis would get my money next, which doesn’t seem like a bad thing as such.

(Didn’t oboe of the older SC Bullits use threaded an external Bottom bracket for it’s pivot bolt?).

Yup, the last version used a Shimano Hollowtech BB for it’s pivot bearing. I can’t remember if that was a good or bad thing.

@Tomhoward – Yeah, but I don’t need a modded Fox 40 on the front, just a nice slack 150mm(ish) Pike/Lyrik/36 on the front.

(Didn’t oboe of the older SC Bullits use threaded an external Bottom bracket for it’s pivot bolt?).

Indeed, they did. Nice idea, but every BB ive ever opened to regrease and eek a bit more life out of has been caged, so there are around 12 quite small little balls spaced out by a cage. Better for reducing rolling resistance, but no good for carrying load on a 1/4 rotation back and forth. I cant imagine they lasted very long (even if they were easy to swap out).

Transition Rapture please. As said up there. It’s the same / rebadged as the Traitor Crusade.

It would be a prefect replacement for my cracked Kona Dr Dew. Steel, singlespeedable, would fit all of my outdated components. I wish I could find one in 60cm size. Doesn’t matter about the colour, I’d get one powder coated some gooping colour to camouflage it in amongst my other bikes.

Aren’t they basically the same kind of bike but rebranded as ‘Gravel’ to appeal to a wider market? (Sorry for being cynical about bike industry marketing)

Actually distinctly different things, much in the same way an XC FS bike isn’t the same as an enduro bike, but anyway… 😉

I’d like a 120mm stumpy evo with a coil shock 😎

I reckon a Fatbike Orange Alpine could be an amazing bit of kit. Simple, bombproof, bulldozer point and fire capabilities with the grip of a fat bike.

A Whyte e-XXX that didn’t have its own gravitational field would also be much appreciated. Lifting mine over a gate requires a risk assessment.

Ragley should make a single pivot, full suspension mullet. Like an Orange Switch, but miles cheaper and able to take a water bottle. It would be in keeping with the brand too.

Good shout. We need more affordable single-pivot bikes with good geometry, full stop.

Modern version of the Giant VT2. Loved that curved frame tube thing

A modern version of the Yeti ASR5c in 29er flavour would be great

Yeah, that was such a good bike. I have no interest in their SwitchInfinitybollocks bikes at all.

Didn’t Ragley have a few full suspension bikes years ago (I remember seeing the press release but never any in the flesh). They had forks with more travel than the rear end and I remember lots of the reviewers at the time commenting on how they didn’t like that and bikes should have similar front/rear travel (which always makes me laugh in recent years when the same reviews praise over-forking bikes in recent years).

A steel, short travel, single pivot, single speed with moderately progressive geometry for classic UK winter woods riding.

Exactly like a Starling Beady Little Eye, but cheaper and easier to get hold of!

I’d love to see Honda build a new version of their DH bike.

Didn’t Ragley have a few full suspension bikes years ago

Yes, they did. I think they only ever got to prototype stage and were multi-link jobs.
https://www.pinkbike.com/news/Nukeproof-and-Ragley-Eurobike-2011.html

like a Starling Beady Little Eye, but cheaper and easier to get hold of!

I’d love one of these but cheaper and with gears. Steel, single pivot, almost hardtail but not. Ragley would be a great shout for this. Are you listening Ragley?

Quite specific, but a 29+ steel frame singlespeed with sliding dropouts running a 130mm (or thereabouts) fork and with internal dropper routing. Not LLS geo please and more like pre-CEN tubing, so a bit twangy. Oh and bosses only on the down tube and on top of the top tube.

Trek to make a new Remedy 29, that’s basically exactly the same as the old remedy 29 carbon except slacker, longer, with better seatpost tubiness, and a proper headset.

Yup an ASR 5 29er or so its a third the price a genesis grapil 29. Though obvs both would need to have the fall in halfiness engineered out

I’m another that missed out on the soda maxes, even had the money at the time, haunted by that choice

Having loved riding my On One Carbon EVO, an upgrade on that.

Boost and 29 inch wheels. Stealth dropper. Not bothered about internal routing.

So many have been mentioned already. New versions of Yeti arc-x, Trek Stache, Cotic Soul would all be greeted with excitement.

A couple of others:
Bring back the Trek 69er or Singular Hummingbird – mullet 27.5/29 with short dual crown fork and updated geo

Yeti world cup xc race bike

An affordable/accessible version of Andrew’s Waltworks

A full suspension tandem with modern geo and e-bike components for durability – we’re genuinely looking for this as our 26″ Ventana feels quite old school

I do like that Waltworks

Pedals bike care had a singlespeed moxie that wasn’t a million miles off the Walt. Not quite there in the chainstay length but not a million miles off!

https://images.app.goo.gl/oUD9x7DXjD4SgnXA7

170mm travel e-gravel bike……

I’d like a current gen Solaris at carbon weight. There are loads of xc weight, fun head angle fs bikes that in the mould of the spur but surprisingly few hardtails to choose from. I want to be able to stick two bottles on it and spend all day on the South Downs way one weekend in the summer, race xc on it the next and still have it feel fun on steep, slippery north downs trails in winter

A full suspension tandem with modern geo and e-bike components for durability – we’re genuinely looking for this as our 26″ Ventana feels quite old school

There is that new Zealand couple who do the DH racing. Contract them to build you one!

i’d like a short travel starling. 120 at the back and front.

i’d also like chromag to make a cheaper version of the arcturian (29+ trail hard tail) and to include medium in the size range.

i love the idea of a carbon 5.

It might just be rose tinted hindsight, but I’d love a modernised version of a Lawhill bike. The rear suspension on my old Schwinn straight 8 was amazing, and given newer geometry, bigger wheels and better components it would be pretty much perfect.

Would love to see a production version of this, with all modern componentry (instead of the old Boxxer).

https://www.pinkbike.com/news/iron-horse-sunday-reborn-the-rebuild-of-a-classic-downhill-bike.html

Wouldn’t buy it though.

27.5+/29 P7 in 853. With track ends.

A specialized ‘chisel’, without the nose-down, arse-up race geometry.

Something that’s light and comfortable enough for all-day epic rides, but with 140mm up front when it’s time to get rowdy.

In black, with the ‘specialized’ logo in that yellowy-orange.

Talking about Specialized, I’d actually be really interested in an aluminium Enduro.

With a mullet chip.

And on the same theme, an aluminium Nukeproof Giga – even if I had to do without the gutter-effect downtube.

Also with a mullet chip, obvs.