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hi it's James Vincent from single track
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magazine here shooting the bike test
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video for issue 118 of the magazine got
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three director consumer bikes on test
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the first bike is the bird Cycle Works
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Aries 145 so cool because it's got 145 M
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travel at the back and it's a hardcore
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trail uro bike it can run anything from
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150 mil Fork to 170 mil Fork at the
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moment where running it with the 160 mil
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Yari at the back I said it's got 145 mil
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of travel bird have actually just
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released a new linkage which unlocks 160
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mil of travel at the back swapping it
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over takes all of 5 minutes and a cup of
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Allen keys and that's available to
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existing customers or you can buy it as
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a complete long travel frame as with all
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bird bikes uh it's incredibly long it's
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incredibly low and it's incredibly slack
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with a 65.1 de head angle at the moment
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one of the things I really love about
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this bike is the way that bird allow you
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to Speck it out you can start with one
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of four base builds and then you can
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completely customize it from there so
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we've chosen Maxis minion dhrs on the
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front we've got a high roll on the back
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uh we've got the GX Eagle group set um
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we got a Race Face dropper on it um but
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from there you can customize completely
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anything that you want so if you want
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different tires you can get different
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tires if you want different Forks you
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can upgrade to a different Fork what
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what we've done is we've put a beefier
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shock on the back for riding in the Lake
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District on some of the biger gnarlier
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terrain that we hit out there um that
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just give us a bit more damping a bit
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more suspension control out back um but
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as I say you can customize absolutely
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anything on this bike as you can see
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this is an incredibly long bike and it's
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super super slack which really
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encourages you to push your weight
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really far forward and load up the front
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wheel if you're a bit more timid and bit
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more reserved and you don't get the
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weight on the front wheel it's not quite
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are hot but if you do manage to get your
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weight forward and you really engage
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with the bike it really really rewards
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that and it flies through Rocky terrain
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um absolutely eats loads of stuff up
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it's absolute monster of a bike if you
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want to read more about this bike check
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out issue 118 of single Tru magazine or
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head to the website single TRW world.com
