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Niner Drops $300 Off Air 9 RDO Carbon Frame Retail Prices

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Niner Bikes drops AIR9 RDO frame prices to 1799 USD

Looking to make your race hardtail a bit lighter without the accompanying weight drop to your wallet? The Niner Air9 RDO has just dropped to $1,799 retail, down from $2,099. That’s for the frame only, in either Niner Green or Arctic White, as shown. The Air 9 Carbon is still $1,399, but the extra 400 beans gives you a frame that’s about a half pound lighter and laid up a little stiffer and racier.

At the moment, Niner’s rep says this doesn’t mean anything new’s in the pipeline to replace it, they’re just making it easier for racers to upgrade their bike. We’re waiting to hear back if complete bikes also see a price drop and will update when we do.

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Quickie
Quickie
10 years ago

Buy two.

What
What
10 years ago

All this means is we cannot sell bikes, so we better lower the price before we are stuck with too many.

Ryan
Ryan
10 years ago

My guess? 12×142 which would be the next step. Surprised they didn’t go this direction already.

Jugdish
Jugdish
10 years ago

I hope they have too many! Come July they’ll be under a 1k.

methats who
methats who
10 years ago

One 9 RDO already available and thats the upgrade

Brody
Brody
10 years ago

This is very good news. Good to see proving actually coming down for a change once they’ve had production up and running.

Mindless
Mindless
10 years ago

Or you can just order $400 original.

JMS
JMS
10 years ago

Niner lost me with their prices on the new bike I’m getting.
Tough for them (or not)

BT
BT
10 years ago

Niner is feeling the 650b heat…it isn’t too late for them to start a sister company called Tweener.

Eric
Eric
10 years ago

I don’t think this is the bike that would first have the price drop due to a 650 explosion that would probly be the WFO first. They probably just made enough money to cover the R&D so they don’t need to make as much money to cover their bottom line. Good on you niner keep it up.

matt
matt
10 years ago

@ Eric, they are definitely not dropping prices out of the goodness of their hearts. Their hand is being forced in someway – 650 pressure, new spacing, to much production, etc….

The funny thing about this company is that the first thing they teach you in even the most elementary marketing class is – don’t name you company something that puts it into a box or places restrictions on growth in the future. If you want to grow your new bank into a nation brand, don’t name it Bank of Sonoma. You get the idea.

BT
BT
10 years ago

Anyone that thinks that Niner lowered the price out of kindness is delusional.

Burt
Burt
10 years ago

The price was lowered on the Air 9 RDO to help it compete against the One 9 RDO. They’re not clearing it out and no, 27.5″ sales really aren’t hurting them. In relation to the whole bike market, 29″ bikes are still very strong. If their name was sixer, then they’d be in deep trouble.

Topmounter
Topmounter
10 years ago

$300 is not the decision point between a 29″ and a 650b hard tail.

Bobby J.
Bobby J.
10 years ago

Pivot has the Pivot Les… How about Niner comes out with 27.5’s and calls them Niner Not! No harm no foul…

Eric
Eric
10 years ago

You know being optimistic is allowed everyone in a while, yes even on a cycling forum as hard as that is to believe based on the typical bikerumor comments. Especially in a case such as this that none of us actually have a say in. Although, maybe a glass half empty would seem lighter?

Tavern Puzzle
Tavern Puzzle
10 years ago

TI heard that there is a redesign coming to make the cable routing even more difficult.

FarmerJohn
FarmerJohn
10 years ago

tooling paid off+650b= discounts

K11
K11
10 years ago

i feel the reason is that riders are just starting to get tired of the whole everything HAS to be carbon. For what niner was charging, there are custom frame options out there that once you are in the $2100 dollar range, you are so close to a custom frame sized for you with the features you want and minus the things you don’t need. (with the durability to last a looong time.)

not to mention, the resale value after a couple seasons.

badbikemechanic
badbikemechanic
10 years ago

Great more green niners out on the race course. For all the haters on this forum, niner is likely dropping the price just to clear them out for the next model year/color. Also the word is that Niner’s giant bottom bracket is a complete turd.

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