No. 22’s Reactor is their all-new race bike, taking over the top of the performance line from the Great Divide as a more race oriented model.
It replaces the seat tube with a carbon tube, which maybe saves about 50g when comparing apples to apples. But, since the tube goes all the way thru, it forms a seatmast that ultimately saves about 100g of system weight compared to using a standard seat post. It also allows them to make the ride a bit more compliant and lets them tune the final ride characteristics rather than leave it up to whatever seatpost the customer ended up with.
Up front, it gets an all-new headtube that’s tapered and uses integrated bearing shelves, something more typically found on carbon frames. That lets them use pressed bearings, which are much cleaner looking, and it saves weight. The new tube, headset spec and other details put total weight savings just in the headtube area is 150g.
Not every part of the bike got lighter, though…
The etched head badge instead of the normal titanium badge that’s bonded on also saves a few grams.
The seat mast topper is the forged version we saw at Philly Bike Expo, courtesy of Stijl Cycles’ Hinmaton, who helps design several of the tubes and dropouts for No. 22’s bikes.
The chainstays are 1″ diameter that have been ovalized to clear a 28mm tire, and the downtube is bigger than the other bikes, too. All in the name of stiffness.
