New 2013 abundance and alley bikes

Pivot acquire beneath the alternation stays by about 8mm (0.3in). They've aswell fabricated the basal bracket just a hair lower, anchored up the wheelbase and added the standover approval by up to 40mm (1.55in) depending on bike size.

In addition, Pivot architect Chris Cocalis told BikeRadar that the new bike's DW-Link rear abeyance will aswell affection a hardly beneath rear shock. This will allegedly accommodate a snappier feel and bigger damping ascendancy throughout the stroke.

In addition, Pivot acquire congenital centralized derailleur cable routing, neatly chip dropper column routing, post-mount rear anchor tabs, 142x12mm through-axle dropouts, molded-in ISCG tabs and a direct-mount foreground derailleur.

Frame and shock appraisement is set at US$2,799, while a complete Shimano Deore XT body will set you aback US$5,250. Kits with SRAM's new XX1 or X0 groups or Shimano's complete XTR amalgamation will be offered as well. Projected availability is November 2012.

Coming in January 2013 is Pivot's aboriginal 29er carbon hardtail alleged the Les (get it?). Designed for use with 100-120mm forks, it's expectedly ablaze at a claimed weight of 1,150g. But it's aswell impressively versatile, with swappable bolt-in dropouts that acquiesce for geared or singlespeed use.

The geared dropouts are fabricated of molded carbon cilia while the singlespeed ones are CNC-machined aluminum. The closing are abnormally clever, with a built-in, detented astriction adjuster that should not alone authority acclimation bigger than approved threaded adjusters but aswell accomplish it easier to accumulate both abandon even – just calculation the clicks.

Other appearance cover centralized cable acquisition with disposable apartment stops, Pivot's signature press-fit basal address cups and an extra-wide shell, a direct-mount foreground derailleur and approval for tires up to 2.55in wide.

Claimed anatomy weight is an absorbing sub-900g, too, and the new bike will affection a cone-shaped foreground end, an extra-wide BB386 Evo press-fit basal bracket, and centralized cable acquisition that's convertible for automated or cyberbanking drivetrains. You aswell get carbon dropouts, and a ride superior that Cocalis declared as firmer than the Ultralight but not objectionably so.

Retail amount is set at US$3,299 for the frame, fork, seatmast arch and headset. With a Shimano Ultegra accumulation it will be US$4,999, while a new SRAM Red accumulation and Reynolds Assault carbon clinchers will set you aback US$7,499. Projected availability is about August or September 2012.

Speaking of the Ultralight, buyers who acquire been absorbed in that agile flagship but aghast at the US$3,999 frameset amount will acknowledge a abundant cheaper Ultralight RC option.

Built with a beneath big-ticket alloy of carbon cilia but the aforementioned molds, the new RC assets 150g (but is still just 900g according to BH) while application acerbity ethics aural 5 percent of the top archetypal and accepting "much more" abundance than the absolute Ultralight. Further amount accumulation will appear with an all-carbon angle adopted from endure year's G5, which will tack on accession 100g.

BH acquire called the retail amount of the Ultralight RC at US$2,299 – a US$1,700 extenuative over the accepted Ultralight. In fact, a complete Ultralight RC with Shimano Ultegra, at US$3,999, will amount the aforementioned as a bald Ultralight anatomy while alone sacrificing 250g.

Time balloon riders and triathletes get a arresting new BH for 2013, too, admitting one with a less-than-creative name. The new BH Aero boasts a absolutely new anatomy and fork, congenital with assorted airfoil and truncated airfoil shapes that will allegedly aftermath beneath annoyance than the accepted model.

Wind-cheating new appearance aside, BH acquire done a acceptable job of future-proofing the new Aero. Congenital into the architecture is convertible centralized acquisition for automated or cyberbanking transmissions, and anchor mounts for the accepted TRP linear-pull accoutrements or accepted center-mounted calipers. The rear end can aswell acquire Shimano's new direct-mount standard.

BH aswell assume to acquire done a acceptable job of factoring in fit considerations – an included carbon cilia axis can be addled up or down after affecting how it blends into the aloft top tube abaft it. Aswell featured are 40mm of profiled angle spacers, accessible axis lengths of 80-110mm and a accepted 31.8mm bar catch to accommodate a advanced ambit of abject bar options.

With rim anchor cyclo-cross bikes still antic the abiding 130mm rear hub agreement but disc-equipped bikes abundantly switching to the 135mm MTB standard, anatomy manufacturers acquire appropriately far been affected to aces one or accession if acid molds for new models.

BH's new RX Team CX, however, calmly avoids the affair with a cleverly convertible arrangement that works for either blazon of brake.

Ingeniously, the RX Team CX is congenital with swappable dropout inserts that will finer accomplish for an adjustable rear hub agreement on the aforementioned carbon cilia frame. In addition, the axle column mounts are absolutely removable, abrogation alone even holes abaft that will be buried with snap-in corrective covers.