The Ingredient is the rocket ship cross-country bike in Rocky Mountain’s lineup. Over time, nevertheless, cross-country has modified, and with it, the calls for of the machine. The up to date Rocky Mountain Ingredient is nicely fitted to no matter comes racing its approach. Whether or not pores and skin fits, baggies, racing, or exploration, the brand new Rocky Mountain Ingredient is lighter, quicker, and able to rip.
What’s it – Rocky Mountain Ingredient
The Ingredient is Rocky Mountains cross-country ripper. It’s essentially the most spandex of the Rocky lineup (minus the Solo Gravel), and its ethos is pace, agility, and flexibility.
At its core, the Ingredient is a cross-country race bike, however with 130mm of entrance and 120mm of rear journey, it’s slowly creeping up the down-country class.
The most recent iteration picks up the place the earlier one left off. It boasts a lighter body, up to date suspension kinematics, and size-specific tuning. The Rocky Mountain design workforce added distinctive gear-carrying options and further water bottle capability to the Ingredient, giving it an extended leash for journey and all-day exploration.
What’s New?
Probably the most notable elements of the brand new Ingredient are the suspension and body. The up to date Ingredient makes use of Rocky Mountain Smoothlink SL Flex Pivot suspension. It ushers in a brand new flex keep design that Rocky Mountain calls the Smoothlink SL flex keep. Another mountain bike producers have efficiently used this design, and it’s cool to see Rocky’s twist on the thought.
The Smoothlink SL Flex Keep helps the workforce get rid of the normal pivot, shaving an honest quantity of weight from the body. It additionally stiffens the rear triangle. The workforce has additionally upgraded dual-row, high-capacity bearings on the seat keep junction for elevated service life.
Rocky Mountain says the brand new flex keep design “optimizes the flex to behave like our four-bar Smoothlink suspension designs. Our suspension philosophy balances effectivity, consolation, and traction to attain the legendary Rocky Mountain experience really feel.”
Rocky Mountain Ingredient Body Particulars
Apart from the SmoothLink SL, the Ingredient body has undergone some modifications. First, it’s lighter than ever earlier than. Now arriving with an up to date carbon layup (mixed with the Flex Keep suspension), the brand new body is over 350g lighter than the earlier mannequin. The Rocky Mountain workforce says the burden drop and Flex Keep don’t compromise stiffness. Though it’s a lot slimmer than the earlier model.
The body replace additionally contains some sensible additions apart from dropping some weight. The up to date Ingredient frames characteristic an adjunct mount beneath the highest tube, ahead of the shock. This provides riders extra choices for bringing what’s wanted for every little thing from racing to deep backcountry missions.
The body additionally arrives with the Rocky Mountain Experience-4™ Adjustment System. This distinctive design lets riders shortly fine-tune their geometry with an Allen key. Transfer the rotator chip to change your experience, with 4 doable variations.
Totally Inner Cable Routing
The body has totally enclosed inside cable routing with consideration for moto-style brake setups – identical because the earlier mannequin. Most sizes (besides XS and SM) characteristic two decrease bottle mounts able to carrying full-sized water bottles.
Right here is the water bottle breakdown per body dimension.
- XS = 1x 650ml bottle
- SM = 650ml + x Fidlock 450ml bottles
- MD – XL = 2x 770ml bottles
Dimension Particular Tuning
The up to date Ingredient follows a Rocky Mountain’s size-specific tuning program. The suspension tune ensures that riders of all sizes get the appropriate stability of small-bump compliance, mid-stroke assist, and end-stroke progressiveness. Primarily based on real-world discipline testing, customized shock tunes are adjusted for every body dimension.
“The Ingredient is my go-to bike, and I can’t cease driving it. It’s mild and snappy on the path and likes to be flicked via the corners. It’s playful and poppy, making clean trails enjoyable, but nonetheless capable of hit nicely above its weight class relating to technical trails. The flex stays make the bike easier, lighter, stiffer, and extra responsive. The engineers knocked this one out of the park. It makes me wish to discover additional and is my bike of selection for 90% of my driving.”
– Sam Schultz, Rocky Mountain Athlete
Rocky Mountain Ingredient Geometry
The Rocky Mountain Ingredient geometry has stayed the identical. The Ingredient is obtainable in sizes XS, SM, MED, LRG, and XL. All sizes, besides the XS, roll on 29″ wheels, whereas the XS Ingredient arrives with 27.5″ wheels.
Rocky Mountain Ingredient Fashions
The Ingredient is obtainable in lots of construct choices, beginning at $4,500 and beginning at $12,000.
The bottom mannequin Rocky Mountain Ingredient 30 arrives with Shimano XT shifting and a Marzocchi Z2 Float EVOL Rail 130mm fork.
The race-ready Rocky Mountain Ingredient 70 has SRAM GX AXS shifting, SRAM Stage brakes, and a FOX Efficiency 34 130mm fork.
As for the top-tier Ingredient 99, this rocket ship spares no expense on the part entrance. The bike arrives with SRAM XX AXS, Rock Shox SID 120 Flight Attendant suspension, and all the trimmings a World Cup rider could be pleased to race.
Rocky Mountain Ingredient Pricing
- Ingredient Carbon 30 – CAD 5,599 | USD 4,499
- Ingredient Carbon 50 – CAD 6,699 | USD 5,299
- Ingredient Carbon 70 – CAD 8,499 | USD 6,999
- Ingredient Carbon 90 – CAD 12,499 | USD 9,999
- Ingredient Carbon 99 – CAD 14,499 | USD 11,999
- Ingredient Carbon Frameset – CAD 3,599 | USD 2,999
