Niner BSB 9 RDO cyclocross race bike gets refined, plus colors for a new season

Written by Tyler Benedict Jun 12, 2017 1:30 p.m. ET

2017 Niner BSB 9 RDO carbon cyclocross race bike updated with flat mount brakes and new colors

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If you (like us) are already thinking about ‘cross season, Niner’s BSB 9 RDO carbon cyclocross race bike has a few updates for ya. They’re simple, mainly just the switch to flat mount brakes, new colors and a single, effective complete bike build featuring SRAM Rival 1.

Available in this Yin and Yang Black/White or Loud and Proud Green/Blue (shown below), the complete bike retails for ~~$3,200~~ $3,800 with Stan’s Grail wheels and a Niner alloy cockpit. A frameset, which includes their carbon RDO flat mount cyclocross fork, is $2,300.

Niner says they’re only available in limited quantities, so if you’re interested, talk to your Niner dealer now to get one on order. We reviewed the BSB 9 RDO a couple years ago and it is indeed a “race day weapon” as they put it, with the added benefit of their 29er mountain bike DNA to make handling really good in the rough stuff.

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KBogey

6 years ago

Nice bikes but who ran that front brake hose across the tire and under the downtube? Yikes!

mudrock

6 years ago

I do that on my bike, it gives the cable (in my case) a gentler bend to the caliper. It just stands out more when your frame is a dayglo green – yuk.

Dylan

6 years ago

Reply to mudrock

But this is a hydraulic line – as long as it’s not pinched, you can bend it as tight as you like and it will work perfectly. Beats me why anyone would have it rubbing on the frame by choice, so there must be a reason.

silverlining

6 years ago

Green and blue color way reminds me of my old 2014 s-works crux. I dig it.

PFS

6 years ago

On Instagram niner said that they only made a few of them and that “when they’re gone they’re gone”. Where does that leave a customer with a warranty issue down the road?

Ryan

6 years ago

Reply to PFS

More like they only paid to have their name painted on a few of them. It’s a great frame, but they definitely aren’t the only one selling it. Not gonna name drop here, but I know of two other brands off the top of my head selling this frame.

James Grosser

6 years ago

Reply to Ryan

Time and again I see posts saying “open mold,” you can get that elsewhere, blah blah blah, etc., but I never see any verifiable details. If someone else is selling this frame, then who is it?

Richard

6 years ago

Hard to tell but it looks like these bikes are spec’d with a short cage derailleur. With a 1x drivetrain, these should really come with a long cage derailleur so as to run a 10-42 or similar cassette. I suspect most folks will feel overgeared on anything resembling a ‘normal’ cyclocross course.

Chris Sugai

6 years ago

Dear Ryan, We take our frame designs very seriously and have our own in house engineering and design team. Your comment about “they only paid to have their name painted on a few of them.” is simply not true. We have never in our history used a catalog frame. Every frame we have sold has been curated by Niner Bikes. We designed this frame in June 2013 and released the BSB in June 2014

https://bikerumor.com/2014/06/17/niner-introduces-full-carbon-bsb9-cyclocross-bike-updated-jet9-rdo-w-limited-edition-build/

We see a lot of copies of our previous designs in asian catalogs which we take as a form of flattery.

Peace,
Chris Sugai
Niner Bikes

typevertigo

6 years ago

I don’t know if anyone noticed, but it looks like the BSB9 sprouted bottle cage mounts on this iteration. I believe the previous version of the frame did away with them, living up to the “RDO” tag.