Prototype Downhill And Cross Country Tech From The Vallnord Pits

Neil and Doddy have been in Andorra for the Vallnord World Cup and have been checking out the pits for all the exclusive new tech from both the worlds of DH and XC World Cup Racing. Check it out!

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One of the awesome things about being a pro mountain bike racer is that get to ride products that just aren’t available to the public! It’s the pro’s job to help develop the next big product that is going to blow us away! Here are a couple of the bits of prototype tech that the pro’s are testing in Vallnord at both the XC and DH World Cup races!

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– We’re at the Andorra Cross-Country and Downhill World Cup. We’re gonna take a little tour of the pits and check out the cool downhill and cross-country tech. Let’s hit it? – Let’s do it. – So this is Victor Koretsky’s BH Ultimate cross-country race bike with a few really cool touches on it. It’s got these SR Suntour Axiom forks up front, carbon fibre crown, we’ve got a really neat lock-out system, so you push with the thumb to lock out and then you just push your finger sideways to unlock that fork again. It’s obviously got this very neat, quick release, bolt through system so you’ve got the advantages of that stiffness of having a bolt through system but still be able to release that really quickly to change the wheels in the case of a puncture. BH also worked with Suntour to develop that system for the rear. Again, you can see that sort of star-nut there, really quick to get that rear tyre out as well. He’s also got this carbon fibre KS-Lev dropper seatpost. We’ve also got some Prototype Michelin tyres on here. They’re the Jet XCR, super low profile cross-country race tyres. – So just checking out Lars Förster’s BMC four stroke. It’s got a whole bunch of cool tech on it. Got a cool carbon fibre chain guide down here, you got a really cool carbon fibre rocker and the thing I really like on it is the Fox iCD electronic lockout system. There you got a slave unit on the shock here, you’ve also got one on the top of the fork and they are actuated by this really cool little thumb lever on the bars and on the Di2 remote display here it actually shows you what the shock and fork are doing. – So we’re at the FMD transition pits. There’s a few bit’s in here we’re not allowed to take a close look at just yet but this is Tahnee Seagrave’s transition to carbon fibre. Don’t get too close! And also some prototype tyres, well pre-production tyres, these are Schwalbe Magic Mary and these are super soft compound. You see the colour purple? That follows the formula one of supersoft being purple and then the orange ones are the soft. – So one of the cool things we spotted here, is this new prototype Mondraker. Now, they’ve been pretty tight lipped about it but we do know that the working title for this is called the F podium. So the hardtail race bike is called the podium and it’s go this integrated stem design. This is the full suspension version and this has got the Mondraker zero platform. We know it’s got a 100 mil travel and that’s about it. There will be more details coming soon. – Okay, so we’ve found this pre-production bike. It’s made by Unno, a company founded by an ex-pro rider called Cesar Rojo, he used to race world cup downhills. He’s the man behind the designs of some really famous downhill bikes already, like the Mondraker and Intense’s new 29er. Take a look at the carve and lay-up of this bike, it looks absolutely amazing close up. Some really neat touches, this isn’t actually the final production bike yet but you can see how the cables come round into the top tube there to make it really easy to mount that number plate on the front. Also some changes to be made, there’s this routing down here but all in all, a very nice looking bike. – Okay, so this isn’t exactly new tech. You could actually say it’s old technology, we’ve seen some of the top downhill racers here in Andorra actually switching back to their 27.5 inch wheel bikes. It’s very steep, it’s very tech this track and we’ve seen a riders like Danny Hart, amongst others, going back to their old bikes. – So Brendan, we’re at Andorra. One of the roughest, steepest tracks of the year and you just got the 29 option for the Scott Gambler and you’re back on the small wheels? – Yeah, we went too early again and it was the first time I had the chance to ride the 29. You know, I felt like that track, it’s not smooth but it’s like a lot of motorway, high speed, not super tight woods or anything and I thought it was the track to try, I’ll try it here. So I put ’em on, had the whole weekend, felt really good, felt like on the edge, really good run, and I did my race run and I was way off the back. So, obviously it’s easy to blame something but we did some more testing last week at Innsbrook on 29 and it’s a weird feeling for me cos I feel on the edge, I feel fast, I feel really comfortable, and it feels quite normal. – Yeah. – But then the times are not there for me, it feels like I’m going the same speed as I do on this. – So back on what you know I suppose? – Yeah, so I was getting a bit desperate and try not to change up too much stuff and I’m a big fan of this track so I really wanna get back up there in the top ten. That’s really what I want. So yeah, we put back on 27 and I was straight back up to faster than I was on 29. I think we need to put some more time into it and maybe not worry about it for the off-season. – Alright mate, good luck for the weekend. – Thank you. – Here at Andorra, Specialise are unveiling the new 2018 Specialised Epic. This is a brand new frame design, still fully carbon. Up fronts got a slightly slacker head angle and out back you’ll notice that it’s got a slightly more slender chainstay design, it’s got a new brain position and it’s actually missing the FSR pivot they’ve had for so long. I’m doing a pro-bike check so you can see the full details of this, belonging to Sam Gaze, make sure you look at that. – So we’re in the Hope pits checking out Adam Brayton’s bike. Now Andorra is a really steep track, it really works the brakes really hard so the brakes get very hot and they start fading so to counter that you need big brakes and Hope have these brand new six pot brake callipers. They just use two big brake pads, look at the size of that, some of these designs actually use separate pads for each piston but not in this case. It’s a 203 rotor on the back and the biggest rotor I’ve ever seen on a mountain bike on the front, that’s a 223 mil rotor, and they have to use this adaptor to space that calliper out cos that is a direct 200 mil mount. On the back of the calliper here, you can see these heat-sensitive stickers, that will show you at the bottom of the course just how hot that callipers got, so the lowest measurement there is 88 degrees C and Adam’s not quite getting them that hot so that’s well within operating temperatures so they’re not fading at all. – So, there you go, there’s some tech from the pits here at Andorra World Cup. – Don’t forget to click here to subscribe for a new video every day. Click down here for a full pro-bike check with Sam Gaze. – Click over here for cross-country racing explained. Give us a thumbs up if you liked this video.