XC FS Race bike Built for the XTerra World Championships in Maui, HI - September 2008

Built for elite athlete Pete Hawkins for the 2008 XTerra World Championships in Maui, HI. The frame uses flat plate carbon fibre / aluminium sandwich chainstays to provide vertical rear wheel compliance with high lateral stiffness, and a pultruded integrated seatpost bonded in place. 

The bike helped Pete to take the gold medal and become World Champion.

Frame

6082-T6 alloy mainframe with pultruded carbon seatpost

Carbon / aluminium / carbon sandwich chainstays

Roll-wrapped UD carbon seatstays

135mm rear axle spacing

Manually machined rocker links

build

Shimano XTR 3x9 groupset & brakes

Maverick American DUC32 fork

Hope Technology Pro2 hubs & Mavic rims

Custom built seat clamp