Is The MTB'ing Industry Actually Making Anything New? | Old Ideas, New Spin?!

In the run up to Sea Otter we've seen a glut of new kit hit the market, from Fox's glittering new gold lowers, updated dampers, and reverse arch XC forks, to Rocky Mountain's new Altitude enduro bike and Norco's new high-pivot e-bikes. But lots of these 'new' products take ideas and inspiration from old kit. Yep, gold forks, reverse arches, BB-centric virtual pivot suspension designs and high-pivot e-bikes have all been done before. Many protected by patents that have expired recently.
We dig into a few of these retro-tech designs in our latest show, along with first ride impressions on the new Mondraker Dune XR mid-power e-bike and Forbidden Dreadnought V2 enduro bike.
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Mondraker Dune www.mbr.co.uk/reviews/electri...
Forbidden Druid www.mbr.co.uk/reviews/29er-fu...
Fox forks: www.mbr.co.uk/news/special-po...
www.mbr.co.uk/news/product_ne...
www.mbr.co.uk/news/fox-launch...
Rocky Mountain Altitude: www.mbr.co.uk/news/rocky-moun...
Norco Range and Sight VLT: www.mbr.co.uk/news/norcos-new...
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[@LaurentiusTriarius]

I did paint my Judy DH lowers gold in nostalgia of the rock shock mag. This was like 25 yrs ago. Now it's antique...

[@tonybennett3904]

Always a great discussion with you two,really enjoy these.12 k for that bike,must not comment.

[@MBRmagazine]

Cheers!

[@TheBikeRoom]

12k and fast black stanchions? What, we don't get genuine kashima coated forks? I'd also like the Maxxis logo in yellow as others will think they're cheapo ones😂 Joking aside, it's a dream bike for sure

[@MBRmagazine]

They are Ohlins forks on the Mondraker.

[@Mtb9r]

I was just gonna say God damn $12,000 for a bicycle.😮.

[@LaurentiusTriarius]

Who'd have thought forty years ago we'd be drinking chateau de chasselas?
That's the industry. Margins are a hell of a drug 😂