Yep, a new Pivot mountain bike is coming next week. We’ll be at PressCamp for the debut and report back with all the details. What do we know so far? Nada, other than that tiny rider looks like they’re hauling butt on a mid-travel bike. We asked founder Chris Cocalis if we could tease anything. Here’s how that conversation went…
So, see ya next week!
Can’t wait. Just prepped up a friend’s Blur XC Carbon he bought used, and had a chance to ride it back to back with my Mach 4. The two bikes were market competitors, but have different suspension characteristics. After riding them both, I’m happy with my decision – and thinking about my next DW link bike from Pivot.
Waiting for a mid travel 29er with enduro 29-like geo. Slack and low, with trail bike handling, suspension, & poppiness, xc-like lightness and responsiveness, and freeride-like stability at speed & in the air. 45″ish wheelbase, 430ish RC, size 17/med with long reach (410-425) and relatively low ~610-625 stack (for a 130-140 fork’d 29er). Water bottle mount inside the frame a plus. Could this be it, or do I have to wait for the SJ FSR revamp?
I don’t understand this marketing tactic. If they told me something about the bike, I might hold off a purchasing decision till I knew more. Just saying “there’s a new bike coming” doesn’t encourage me to buy a pivot at all; if I were thinking of buying a mach6, for example, I’d wait till I knew what the new bike was (and the wait might well convince me that a Nomad is a better choice). If I was considering buying something pivot doesn’t currently offer (like a longer travel 29er), should I wait, or just get a Ripley or something else already out?
Of course what I really want doesn’t exist yet, so I’m waiting regardless. So my hope is it’s something similar to an Intense Carbine 29, only sized big enough to fit an adult.
@Jason – of course all companies are going to continue to release new product and there will continue to be times when hot in demand bikes will outpace production. There is a finite capacity in production for any bikes, especially so for small innovative companies.
As for marketing tactics, this photo was posted by projekt roam .. so tyler grabbed it and ran with it.. i really doubt pivot set him up to this.. hence the name of the blog – bike RUMOR
