NBD: Flow eBMX, Trek Top Fuel, YT Decoy SN, Kona Process 153 & 134…

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NBD: Flow eBMX, Trek Top Fuel, YT Decoy SN, Kona Process 153 & 134…

“Elite Dream Kit with Carbon Fiber Frame Building your custom E-Enduro is no longer a Dream”. You’re right, it’s a nightmare.

And I’d hate to be Richard Skidmore trying to justify the existence of that e-bomination. Cool surname though.

I have a soft spot for Lapierre, had great times on my Spicy, but I can’t believe in 2024 someone would launch an Enduro bike with that dropper arrangement and expect people to buy it. Is that a 100mm dropper?

Looks like they’ve done all the studio photos with Small or XS frames, which do indeed come with 100mm droppers, jacked up to the rafters. Resulting proportions look highly peculiar.

There’s some incredible AI generated & translated text in these. It’s like a fever dream at times.

 

THOK me, that is one awful looking motorcycle.

That new Top Fuel looks ace. Its smack bang in the middle of (for me) what mountain biking is. You could enter a local enduro race on it and manage. You could do a short course XC on it. It even looks fast.

That catastrophe of a “BMX” deserves no oxygen – let it die as quickly as possible.

honourablegeorge
I can’t believe in 2024 someone would launch an Enduro bike with that dropper arrangement and expect people to buy it. Is that a 100mm dropper?

+1 – Bike looks great but was it designed in 2004? Shock’s in the wrong place for 2024 and 200mm+ droppers. Basic design FAIL. Shame.

That eBMX – WTF? It appears to be a BMX shaped eBSO. Ridiculous. No surprise it’s already discounted 

My thoughts exactly 😀

That BMX is destined for the future ugly bikes threads.

Taken the simplest best looking bike design & uglified beyond recognition

I thought the Trek seemed nice until…effective seat tube angle gets slacker as the sizes increase. Nearly 77 on a medium and 75 on a XL. Any company doing this has got it all wrong.

Strangely Pinkbike mentioned this about the Kona, which has a much smaller variance, but not the Trek. Guess it depends on the height of the person writing the article.