Simply final spring Bike Forward launched their surprisingly reasonably priced, EU-made carbon mountain bike body, and now they’re again build up The Body HT into superlight 8kg manufacturing hardtails. Whereas wildly mild premium bike builds are most frequently left to the devoted weight weenie with time on their fingers and cash to burn, Bike Forward is making it simpler to get a killer light-weight mountain bike.
The brand new The Body HT builds aren’t precisely reasonably priced, however in a world the place you possibly can simply spend $5000-15,000€ on a inventory carbon XC bike from the likes of Specialised or Trek, perhaps a 5000-8500€ hardtail made in Germany isn’t so far-fetched!
Bike Forward The Body HT full hardtail mountain bikes
Bike Forward says their new 8kg Bike Forward The Body HT full hardtails are principally the lightest manufacturing mountain bikes you could purchase. The one factor they are saying trumps the brand new bike is the 7.84kg Stoll R1, which not coincidentally Bike Forward truly manufactures the frames for Stoll and outfits them with loads of Bike Forward Composites parts.
8 kilograms for an off-the-shelf manufacturing mountain bike is loopy mild. That is the kind of bike that may change the way you journey off-road, glancing off rocks & rocketing up climbs such as you by no means have. The truth is, 8 kilograms remains to be simply one in all Bike Forward’s lighter full bikes, nonetheless with a 120mm fork for Path using.
However with loads of choices & upgrades accessible, you possibly can simply shed extra weight in case your pockets permits. They declare the lightest full construct weighs 7.85kg with the choices outlined under.
The place did it come from?
The Body itself was a number of years in improvement, as Bike Forward collaborated with Carbon Staff to deliver premium carbon bike manufacturing again to Europe, since simply earlier than the pandemic. Bike Forward debuted The Body final March – weighing below 800g and promoting for lower than 2000€, a reasonably spectacular combo for a motorbike made solely between Portugal & Germany.
Now, constructing that EU-made body up into customizable full bike builds dripping with extra German-made carbon parts, it is a easy approach to get what Bike Forward describe as “the final word hardtail for racers and purists.”
“We at Bike Forward are massive followers of hardtails. They’re mild, uncomplicated and provide an enormous vary of makes use of, from on a regular basis rides and Alpine crossings to marathon races. With THE FRAME HT, we provide the final word full package deal.”
– Christian Gemperlein, Bike Forward Composites founder & CEO
Tech particulars
- One of many lightest manufacturing race bikes on this planet, 8.00kg in dimension M with 120mm fork (declare)
- as little as 7.85kg within the lightest configuration with 100mm fork & BiTurbo wheels
- one-piece monocoque carbon The Body made solely within the European Union
- body manufactured in Portugal by Carbon Staff, completed by Bike Forward Composites in Germany
- no-paint, matte UD carbon end with easy decal graphics
- 795g carbon body weight (dimension M, declare)
- rated ASTM Class 3 for Cross-country & Downcountry using
- max 29 x 2.4” tire clearance
- unguided inside cable routing within the facet of the headtube
- 34.9mm seatpost and Intend Corona exterior seatpost clamp
- 12x148mm Enhance spacing & 180mm submit mount brake
- BB92 backside bracket
- UDH common derailleur hanger
- 105kg max rider weight
- 120mm max fork journey
- 4 sizes accessible (S-XL)
- customizable full Race or Path bike builds
2025 Bike Forward The Body HT – Pricing & Choices
Bike Forward affords the brand new The Body HT full bike in two semi-customizable builds – Path or Race – relying in your funds and extremity of your weight weenie tendencies. And naturally, you possibly can nonetheless purchase the 1979€ frame-only you probably have different concepts in your personal weight-weenie construct.
The Body HT GX AXS is the path allrounder, beginning at 5000€ with a 120mm Fox 34 SC Efficiency fork, SRAM GX AXS transmission, Shimano XT brakes, Bike Forward carbon The Flatbar & The Straight seatpost, and an alloy DT Swiss XM1700 wheelset with 2.4″ Schwalbe Racing Ralph tires, at 9.2kg full. For a bit larger funds, you possibly can improve to a BikeYoke Divine SL (+80€) dropper, an ultralight Bike Forward saddle (+300€), standard light-weight carbon Three Zero XC (+1500€) wheels, or ultralight 6-spoke monocoque carbon BiTurbo RSX (+3000€) wheels.
However the absolute lightest inventory construct is the Bike Forward The Body HT- XX SL AXS Race setup. Beginning at 8500€ you get a superlight reverse arch 100mm Fox 32 SC Manufacturing unit fork, the top-tier SRAM XX SL wi-fi transmission construct, XTR brakes, 1-piece carbon Bike Forward The Unit ICR handlebar/stem combo & The Straight seatpost, and lightweight carbon Three Zero XC wheels wrapped in 2.25″ Racing Ralphs at
Availability?
The brand new The Body HT full bike builds can be found to customise your order now via a neighborhood Bike Forward supplier bike store, with deliveries beginning in February 2025, now only a couple months away.
