would you trust this frame

jacob2910

this frame from on-one.com just looks plain wrong but would you trust this frame when the trail faces down
http://www.on-one.co.uk/i/q/FRSLRIP/sli ... -mtb-frame

Dave_P1

No matter what anyone told me...................no I wouldn't trust it.

getonyourbike

nor me

bobgfish

Is it a fold up?

nicklouse

why not? the slingshot design has been around for yes.

NatoED

i'd trust it. A cantilever system is the strongest design in many applications. plus they are dead comfy to ride boosts climbing too if i remember correctly

cee

do you get many rocks pinging up and whacking your thighs with one of these?

Dangermouse64

Yes, probably had hundreds of thousands of pounds thrown at it for r & d and had to pass CE and BS to be marketed in the UK

MountainMonster

I saw that the other day, and didn't know what to think of it either. Just really not sure.

I'd try and see how it felt on my local XC route, but that would probably be the roughest I would take it on.

ricardo_smooth

ride it, if it breaks then on one would get a big shafting if it was down to design faults and not crash/abuse damage

the phantom pieman

Where do you put the crud catcher !!

Arkady001

A mate of mine rode one for a couple years with no probs back in the '90's - we found a way of attaching a simple crud-catcher to the cable as well, IIRC...

wordnumb

Nice idea but I think I'll stick with one of these:

Stoo61

I would trust it but its soooooooooooooo ugly.

allen.coulson

I would not trust it as much as a frame because it has one more mode of failure.

Pirahna

The design has been around for the best part of 20 years and I don't recall hearing of any failures with it.

mel d

wasn't there a bmx like that back in zee day ?
retro dodgy

beelzebomb

..even odder is that when you "zoom in" the picture ends up smaller...

jacob2910

beelzebomb wrote:

..even odder is that when you "zoom in" the picture ends up smaller...

tis odd innit