Niner has updated their RLT line, putting thru axles where they weren’t and making them ever more capable of letting you hit the “road less traveled”.
The RLT Alloy model, shown above, gets a rear thru axle sliding through a new forged dropout, and the steel model gets one up front thanks to the new carbon touring fork that adds in-molded mid-mount rack mounts.
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The RLT’s new fork gets several in-molded threaded inserts to fit racks like the Blackburn Outpost front touring rack or cargo cage (shown above, check out more of the collection here and here). The forks layup was refined to soak up more of the small chatter common on dirt roads, too, and it switches from the QR dropouts on the original steel RLT’s OEM spec to a Maxle thru-axle.
Lower fender mounts are also in place.
The forged rear thru axle dropouts on the alloy bike make room for post mount brakes inside the rear triangle and fender/rack tabs. The RLT Steel debuted earlier this year with a rear thru axle already on board, so now both bikes have it at both ends.
The frame is ready for mechanical or electronic drivetrains – note the small wire port on the inside of the chainstay.
Upper rack/fender mount is located on the seatstay bridge, there are no additional mounting points on the seatstays.
The RLT 9 Alloy will come in Green/Canary Yellow and White/Gray/Orange.
- 5-Star Ultegra Di2 (Niner CX Carbon wheels) – $5,500 / $6,000
- 4-Star Ultegra Mech (Stan’s NoTubes Grail wheels) – $3,500 / $4,000
- 3-Star Rival Hydro (Niner CX Alloy wheels) – $2,500 / $3,000
- 2-Star 105 11spd (Niner CX Alloy wheels, BB7 brakes) – $2,000 / $2,500
- Frameset (frame, fork, headset, seatpost collar) – $1,050 / $1,500
- Fork only – $250
