Prototype: Rockrider racing all-new Decathlon Race 940S full-suspension XC mountain bike

What made the full-carbon Rockrider XC 900S prototype that the staff raced final season distinctive was that it shared the identical carbon entrance triangle as Decathlon’s price range cross-country bike, solely changing the alloy rear finish with a brand new 1-piece flexing, pivot-less carbon rear triangle. Now, it looks as if the Rockrider Racing Staff’s bike could have simply been the analysis & improvement undertaking aiming to refine the perfect journey traits for an all-new full-carbon XC race bike.

What’s new? Tech particulars

The brand new bike shares the identical fundamental single-pivot suspension idea with a linkage-driven shock situated parallel beneath the toptube, however the execution is all-new – from the entrance triangle again to the rear finish. Primarily, the upcoming Rockrider Race 940S fully reshapes the now 2-piece machined alloy linkage design and format. It strikes the body’s linkage pivot under the seatstay pivot onto a boxy vertical seattube, in entrance of a kinked part of the body that enables a dropper submit to increase under that higher body pivot. And the alloy linkage is pared down to scale back weight, with a second alloy strut connecting to the rear shock mount.

Apart from guaranteeing lengthy dropper compatibility, that new seattube association mixed with a dropped downtube and ahead extension on the backside bracket, collectively makes room for a second set of water bottle cage bolts contained in the fully reshaped entrance triangle.

On the again, the now-flattened seatstays get a singular twist of their higher half that creates a thinner part close to the outer diameter of the rear wheel that ought to higher management the place they flex, along with the carbon layup, after all. And a brand new seatstay bridge presumably boosts rear-end stiffness whereas nonetheless permitting for loads of tire clearance to suit fashionable large XC tires – like these pro-only Hutchinson Racing Lab prototype Krakens.

Aside from the most important reshaping of the highest of the brand new rear triangle, the decrease important pivot seems to be to be in successfully the identical place – simply in entrance of the BB, and aligned with the chain on the highest of the chainring. It will get the identical uneven dropped chainstay format and small vertical stub developing from the rear dropout.

The bike does stick to standard inside cable routing via ports on the facet of the headtube – though it seems to be like that may be a 1.5″ higher headset cup that might permit for an angle-adjust headset or absolutely inside routing. However the cable routing does get a brand new design with forward-facing openings, and 4 ports to help mechanical or digital 1x shifting, plus a dropper submit & distant rear shock lockout.

When will this Decathlon Rockrider 940S be out there to the general public?

We don’t have any official phrase from Decathlon of the Rockrider Bikes model about after we ought to count on this new Race 940S XC bike to be out there. However the Rockrider Racing Staff is now racing the brand new bike with out even protecting the brand new mannequin’s title, and Rockrider itself is teasing the bike on its YouTube & social media.

We count on it’ll seemingly get an official debut on this season’s UCI XC World Cup racing calendar, perhaps on the Nové Město na Moravě opener within the Czech Republic? However Rockrider is formally calling it a MY2024 bike, so hopefully client availability might come early as this summer season, however they promise it will likely be in Decathlon shops subsequent 12 months.

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