Micro Travel Bikes

BloggingFit

To be honest I'm surprised this hasn't happened sooner in a similar vain to Trek Domane road bike.

http://www.pinkbike.com/news/old-is-new-bmc-teamelite-01-introduces-micro-travel-technology.html

Maybe we will see Girvin make a come back...

The Rookie

Read the BR review just this morning, they seem to think it's a positive improvement over the full hardtail.

BloggingFit

I can see some real benefit to this, especially in racing applications or for those who are doing multi-day off-road touring. Enough to take the sting out of the trail so you don't lose momentum pedalling and at the same time not suffering the weight penalty and energy rob of conventional FS. Could imagine. Single speed build would be pretty interesting as well.

rockmonkeysc

At last, an actual innovation rather then just changing the size of a part and calling it the new greatest thing.
Although it is resurrecting old technology which was forgotten as suspension developed and finding new use for it.

Ferrals

Looks interesting, similar to the pinarello cobble road bike.

stretchy

RockmonkeySC wrote:

At last, an actual innovation rather then just changing the size of a part and calling it the new greatest thing.
Although it is resurrecting old technology which was forgotten as suspension developed and finding new use for it.

So an actual innovation that is also resurrecting old technology? :roll:

rockmonkeysc

I think it's finding a use for something invented as part of the original development process of rear suspension.
I always keep my abandoned designs from development projects, they quite often get used for another project later on.
I like that they have found a use for a very simple design where they could have designed in dampers and all sorts of rubbish to overcomplicate it and then charge a fortune.