Niner MCR
#1
Senior Member
Thread Starter
Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: San Diego
Posts: 2,235
Mentioned: 3 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 353 Post(s)
Likes: 0
Liked 92 Times
in
67 Posts
Niner MCR
So it's finally out and Jenson has it in stock. Who's biting the bullet?
https://www.jensonusa.com/Niner-MCR-...r-1x-Bike-2020
Full GRX800 and the dropper post is properly installed with the left GRX shifter.
https://www.jensonusa.com/Niner-MCR-...r-1x-Bike-2020
Full GRX800 and the dropper post is properly installed with the left GRX shifter.
#2
Senior Member
Join Date: Oct 2015
Location: San Diego, California
Posts: 4,077
Bikes: Velo Orange Piolet
Mentioned: 28 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 2228 Post(s)
Liked 2,011 Times
in
972 Posts
It will be interesting to see it in competition, to see if the comfort provided by suspension outweighs the added weight in a race. Certainly, when the terrain gets rough enough, the suspension will result in increased speed over an unsuspended bike.
#3
Senior Member
Join Date: Feb 2014
Location: Pasadena, CA
Posts: 4,848
Bikes: Schwinn Varsity
Mentioned: 22 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 1931 Post(s)
Liked 742 Times
in
422 Posts
$6,000 for a FS bike w/ 40mm travel in front and 50mm rear? No NO NO........ for that price it needs to have a motor.
#4
Senior Member
Likes For gravelED:
#8
Senior Member
Likes For Chi_Z:
#9
Senior Member
Join Date: Jun 2008
Location: Pittsburgh, PA
Posts: 2,468
Bikes: Co-Motion Cappuccino Tandem,'88 Bob Jackson Touring, Co-Motion Cascadia Touring, Open U.P., Ritchie Titanium Breakaway, Frances Cycles SmallHaul cargo bike. Those are the permanent ones; others wander in and out of the stable occasionally as well.
Mentioned: 7 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 427 Post(s)
Likes: 0
Liked 339 Times
in
229 Posts
I bet it will be yeare before most of us ever see one of those out on the gravel...
#11
Full Member
Join Date: Nov 2014
Location: Paris, France
Posts: 399
Bikes: TCX & CAAD3 SAECO
Mentioned: 0 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 147 Post(s)
Liked 118 Times
in
66 Posts
I thought the GCN video on this was interesting. It didn't really sell me on the idea of owning one of these. Not to mention the cost.
#12
FLIR Kitten to 0.05C
Join Date: Sep 2014
Location: Lincoln, Nebraska
Posts: 5,331
Bikes: Roadie: Seven Axiom Race Ti w/Chorus 11s. CX/Adventure: Carver Gravel Grinder w/ Di2
Mentioned: 30 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 2349 Post(s)
Liked 406 Times
in
254 Posts
Uphill fight for Niner...they don't have near the market presence locally that Cannondale does.
#14
Senior Member
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: Ohio
Posts: 2,857
Bikes: Road bike, Hybrid, Gravel, Drop bar SS, hard tail MTB
Mentioned: 7 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 1218 Post(s)
Liked 298 Times
in
214 Posts
the Niner RLT with an AX fork was 100x better than the slate.
I am just going to walk way out on a guess, and say that this MCR would be as fun to ride as my hi-mod scalpel. Except being in road Geo, and with drop bars!
#17
Sunshine
Join Date: Aug 2014
Location: Des Moines, IA
Posts: 16,604
Bikes: '18 class built steel roadbike, '19 Fairlight Secan, '88 Schwinn Premis , Black Mountain Cycles Monstercross V4, '89 Novara Trionfo
Mentioned: 123 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 10947 Post(s)
Liked 7,473 Times
in
4,181 Posts
Likes For thehammerdog:
#19
Full Member
Likes For csrpenfab:
#20
Senior Member
Although it's reductive to refer to carbon frames as "plastic", it's just as ridiculous to claim that they have "zero relationship with plastic." They are literally plastic that's reinforced with carbon fiber. Without the plastic, a carbon frame would be a loose pile of cut-up fabric sheets.
#22
Senior Member
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: Ohio
Posts: 2,857
Bikes: Road bike, Hybrid, Gravel, Drop bar SS, hard tail MTB
Mentioned: 7 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 1218 Post(s)
Liked 298 Times
in
214 Posts
I think there is a disconnect with many riders on what suspension can give them far beyond the 'comfort' thing.
y'all know what happens when you pedal skip? The rear wheel comes off the ground, and sometimes you recover, sometimes you don't?
Now skip your rear wheel off of a rock. Suspension helps with keeping your wheels on the surface.
y'all know what happens when you pedal skip? The rear wheel comes off the ground, and sometimes you recover, sometimes you don't?
Now skip your rear wheel off of a rock. Suspension helps with keeping your wheels on the surface.
#23
Senior Member
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: Ohio
Posts: 2,857
Bikes: Road bike, Hybrid, Gravel, Drop bar SS, hard tail MTB
Mentioned: 7 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 1218 Post(s)
Liked 298 Times
in
214 Posts
https://diffzi.com/resin-vs-plastic/
which means that when you mix Carbon and Resin..... It isn't exactly carbon and plastic.
Probably why drive shafts are carbon fiber, and Bumpers are ABS plastic etc.....
#24
Senior Member
crazy they never distinguish the difference between Resins and plastic in that article.
https://diffzi.com/resin-vs-plastic/
which means that when you mix Carbon and Resin..... It isn't exactly carbon and plastic.
Probably why drive shafts are carbon fiber, and Bumpers are ABS plastic etc.....
https://diffzi.com/resin-vs-plastic/
which means that when you mix Carbon and Resin..... It isn't exactly carbon and plastic.
Probably why drive shafts are carbon fiber, and Bumpers are ABS plastic etc.....
The resins used in bicycle frame construction are generally synthetic polymer resins, not some stuff scraped off a tree.
The reason that a thermoplastic bumper isn't referred to as "carbon fiber" is because it's usually a purely plastic molding with no carbon fiber in it. If a plastic bumper was laid up with sheets of carbon fiber reinforcing the structure, people would call it "carbon fiber", but there would still be plastic bonding the carbon sheets.
I'm not saying that it makes sense to use "it's plastic" as a broad insult to carbon frames. But plastic does not have "nothing" to do with carbon frames.
#25
Senior Member
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: Ohio
Posts: 2,857
Bikes: Road bike, Hybrid, Gravel, Drop bar SS, hard tail MTB
Mentioned: 7 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 1218 Post(s)
Liked 298 Times
in
214 Posts
The reason that a thermoplastic bumper isn't referred to as "carbon fiber" is because it's usually a purely plastic molding with no carbon fiber in it. If a plastic bumper was laid up with sheets of carbon fiber reinforcing the structure, people would call it "carbon fiber", but there would still be plastic bonding the carbon sheets.
Whoosh! you missed the practicality side of the differences!