RiDE Creatives Shows Off Unique Gearbox DH Bike Concept
Press Release: RiDE Studio
We created this concept bike to offer a compact and progressive mountain bike in a unique system. The frame uses a virtual high pivot point with a rearward wheel path which allows the shock to be placed low and centered in the frame. We utilized a Pinion Gearbox to keep the mass centralized, reduce unsprung weight, and heavily reduce maintenance.
This bike could also be set up as an enduro bike with its steep seat angle and long seat post insertion length. On the touchy subject of cable routing, we decided to make ports that look good with any drivetrain setup, wireless or not. Overlapping the swingarm with the front triangle provides a unique aesthetic. The tubes vary in thickness to reduce weight and give extra flex where desired.
Our ambitions with this project are to take it all the way to production in the next years.
RiDE is based in Austria and is connected by a strong, creative network of individuals with experience in the bicycle and motorcycle industry. Although we are only just getting started, we have been privileged to collaborate already with Intense since day one. Our partnership with Intense has already formed several soon-to-be-released bikes that will deviate from industry trends.
At RiDE, our creative endeavours extend beyond commissioned projects. In order to maintain a high level of innovation, motivation, and expertise, we engage in the development of projects between client assignments. This project is one of those.
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Interesting, never seen that before. That's clearly not what this is, but nice to know.
If you're going to put a press release out there to the public, it's probably a good idea to have somebody that knows a thing or two about bikes take a look before announcing it to the world. If they can't get rotors on the correct way around, what does that say about the rest of the design?
This is every high school kids first attempt at drawing a bike in their shop class.
Slow news day at PB HQ...
Yet, the communication might be a little too rushy/agressive as the company is a very young name in the bicycle Design and needs mature attention when it comes to details.
The stance of the bike is sick but the functionality and realistic feasibility could be questioned so be aware in the next designs to build up experience and maturity.
People could have already spotted the belt impossible to assemble, the swingarm needs a split or should go around it (above like Orange for instance).
I will add a few points as well, like the shock compatibility in such a tiny space and the access of the shock settings. Gravity is the most critical discipline with suspensions, there are so many shock options and different sponsoring on the circuit, and users/mechanics need to get they're fingers on them regularly. Shock options could be narrowed down but the mainstream choices should be taken into consideration. The Fox X2 lineup and angled piggyback settings will be impossible to setup without getting the shock out.
Forged carbon is also cool and esthetic but it has no good structural properties for frame tubbing. It's rather useful on linkages and small parts with specific applications, injected nylon + short fibers is also a very close process which is widely used.
The high center of gravity can be a drawback for handling and timed racing. The Intense M29 initiated that same idea of compacity but the shock was still quite low. If the Pinion Box is rotated this would leave more room to lower the shock, increase the shock accessibility and maybe align the toptube with the seatstays and keep a slick and fast look.
And as widely spotted, rotors are backwards on MTBikes compared to Motorcycles.
So once again, very cool design but back up next designs with strong details to add credibility. Keep up the good work!
They've done an awesome job on the Intense M1 and maybe the Ride team wanted to communicate a bit because of the Intense team announcement, and did it a bit hastly with a concept that was not 100% thought out (I mean the lack of opening in the rear triangle with a belt is a big error for a bike oriented design studio, they could have use a chain and nobody could've said anything).
But better get new clients with a hasty concept than fold the company because of no clients. I'm no bike company searching for a design studio, but I've heard about them thanks to this article.
One could say it's a style concept more than a proto, but it's "too realistic" to be a concept, so it's perceived as a proto, and then those issues matter.
Designing a bike looks simple, and you want to get noticed by doing something original, but often you realise there's a reason if bikes look like... bikes, and most often a technical reason as qblambda listed.
It's cool to make original shapes but if prototype testing makes you change the whole bike, then it means your initial idea was just wrong.
Regarding forged carbon, maybe it could be used for the seat mast that is supposedly not used much in DH, but the rest of the frame should not use forged carbon.
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I have one order with the revised drop outs which are interchangeable (0, +10, +20)
I'll have mine in a few weeks.
Both designs can be used to accomplish similar or radically different suspension properties.
Stop thinking that suspension perf can be intuited from frame layout. It does you a disservice in choosing bikes.
Either compare bikes by looking at the real kinematic charts or ride them to experience how those design choices affect ride feel, but stop w the " this layout means this and that one means that" voodoo bs.
Go ride an Altitude and swap between them, you can feel the suspension feel weird untill you change setup.
Physic's dont change lol. I guess next you'll tell me breaker bars dont make any difference because they have a different handle despite the 500mm length increase.
I've ridden 20+ Frame designs in the last 3 years i guess experience is just a fake news thing now.
Riding bikes gives you an understanding of ride feel but does not give you direct insight into kinematics, only kinematics do that.
You are correct, physics do not change, but you have not actually identified any physical difference in designs with your assertion that this design does not change the chainstay length (bc it does)
Yes it is possible to ride many many bikes and still not understand how they work, case and point.
Nice looking DH Frame, though!
The purple looks awesome