IB13: Scurra’s 29er Hard Enduro and its Unique Praying Mantis Suspension

lts just so ugly….

What problem were they trying to solve with this design?

I will quote my favorite BR post from 2013 by repeating it verbatim:

“I believe the proper response it to kill it before it lays eggs.”

The owner of this bike is the same type of person who owns one of those Jones bikes: They don’t ride, they just like showing up to the trail head and talking for 60 minutes straight to any person who comes up to them to ask them about their bike. Then they go for a 10-minute ride on their useless–but cool looking–bike.

I appreciate companies trying different design alternatives for our traditional components. Naturally this is not initially appealing to most folks, but it may have some merit. After all, this is how we learn and better the industry. Even if it fails, I say it is still worth trying out.

There’s more than one, it must have already laid eggs. Therefore, I beleive we escalate to “Nuke it from orbit. It’s the only way to be sure.”

It’s an anti brake dive design and as such has been proven by BMW to work rather well…All that stuff about looks and and weight is valid but let’s not dismiss it as rubbish before it’s even had a revue.

dumbest suspension design to date. good luck keeping things on plane as soon as you factor for front end travel

Now this is the trick : head over to Las Vegas Boulevard, pick up some LSD from the guy at the corner of Flamingo Av.,head back to the Sands Expo to stare at the bike and you will see a common suspension equipped bike rather than this monstrosity.

I’d try that just for the photo op

@Hogdog- you can achieve anti-dive without nearly as many moving parts. IRD made an anti-dive fork around 1997, it was called the TL-5; there also was the one-sided USE fork, I forget what it was called but it also was anti-dive. Neither of those forks was nearly as complicated as what’s on that bike.

Lots of hate for a suspension design that I doubt anyone here has ridden. I can take my BMW GS 1200 fully loaded into a corner at 100mph and slam on the dual 12″ rotor front brake an the fork might drop 1cm- thats all. If they get the telelever working on a bike without adding much/any weight it could make for some exciting technology. I’m not denying that its one FUGLY bike thou.

@Alex, everyone here has probably extensive engineering backgrounds, as well as millions of hours in the saddle. The all must own 30 different full suspension bikes that they ride at least 60 hours a day. That is how everyone here can know this design is a failure.

@Mark, wrong forum. Click me.

Many Bothans died to bring us this suspension.

27.5″ rear wheel, not 29″. No way is it going to use two of the same wheel size; that’s too normal.

Where’s the carbon? Ain’t no Blackbox. That’s real innovation.