The folks at Feedback Sports (that’s their Pro-Elite work stand holding this bike up) clued us in on a prototype Fox downhill fork being put through its paces at the Lousã bike park in Portugal ahead of a season of the World Cup DH season opener in a couple weeks in France. The photo was snapped by one of Fox’s top technicians, mechanic Kolja Schmitt. What do we know from this pic? Well, it seems to confirm rumors of 29″ wheels making their way into the World Cup DH scene. Other than that, we’ll likely have to wait a bit longer to confirm what new tech might be hidden under those RAD49 decals (and who’s got a World Cup ready DH 29er waiting in the wings). Check out a closer look at these lowers, and a bit of speculation after the break…
So, we’ll have to start rumoring now as to who the bike belonged to, but around the same time this photo got posted from Lousã, the Radon Factory DH team was at the bike park as well, with Manon Carpenter giving a shout out on social media to Fox thanking them for support. At the same time it seems Trek Factory Racing was spending time with Fox there (also touting a new faster Trek Session), as was the Cube Global Squad and Brendan Fairclough’s Scott-Velosolutions. Yeah, let the speculations begin…