bionicon

max123 · 06-22-2006, 11:56 PM

Im in europe right now and I came across a bike made by a company caled Bionicon. The make a couple of sick fully suspension mtn bikes where the fork is air and the rear shock is, and the are connected. for uphill when you make the fork less travel the rear shock extends and the geometry of the bike changes. This company invented travel adjust and licensed it out to rock shox fox etc. check em out.
the website is in german but u cud put it into google-language tools-translate web page...
http://www.bionicon.com/index.html?S...00000009353e1d

East Bay Rich · 06-23-2006, 08:36 AM

Mt. Bike Action featured one of their trail bike in an issue. I believe it was from 5-6 months ago. Interesting concept...

max123 · 06-23-2006, 08:43 AM

there bikes are actually extremely light, the fork on the 6" travel bike of theirs is all air, even the damping. They must be prety hard to work with though, wiring hoses through th frame to take off the fork and stuff. It was eactually really cool in person because the bike just changes to lean forward for uphill like an xc bike and then leans bike for dh. I thought it was really the next lvl of bikes for uphill and downhill.

MTBTHIS · 06-23-2006, 08:45 AM

Yea, i talked to the guys there at Sea Otter. Crazy stuff.

BIGHIT8989 · 06-23-2006, 01:48 PM

Dood those bikes are sooo sweet !their DH bike has adjustable travel front and rear ! i dun remember the actuall mm lengths in the rear, but it is enough to be a good trail bike/dh bike. The travel adjusting in the rear and front pretty much makes the bike !