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Manitou FS II Future MTB Project Reimagines Mountain Bike Classic with Gamux & Pinion

Manitou FS II Future MTB Project Reimagines Mountain Bike Classic with Gamux & Pinion

Manitou FS II Future MTB concept project bike prototype built by Gamux Support us! Bikerumor may earn a small commission from affiliate links in this…

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Is Manitou trying to reinvent the mountain bike again, more than 30 years later with this FS II Future MTB project?

Honestly no. Sure, Manitou was one of the pioneers of full-suspension mountain bikes back in the early 90s. But they are fully aware that suspension design has advanced far beyond simply strapping a second suspension fork to the back of an any frame to get rear wheel travel. Yet that doesn’t mean that it wouldn’t be fun to see what a more modern adaptation of their first full-suspension mountain bike would look like updated with some much more modern tech… Manitou FS II project: Updating a Mountain Bike Legend

(Photos / Hayes Bicycle) So, Manitou’s Hayes Bicycle Group parent company decided to reach out to Swiss gravity bike builders Gamux to see what kind of modern full-suspension trail bike they could create, built around a suspension fork managing rear wheel travel like in the early days of mountain bike evolution.

Manitou figured they could work with a short-travel XC kids’ bike fork in the back, a mid-travel trail bike fork up front, a Pinon gear box transmission at the bottom bracket, and then let Gamux create one of their wild machined aluminum frames to make it all work, with bonded in carbon structures to modulate frame stiffness as needed! Manitou FS II […]

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