Simply final spring Bike Forward launched their surprisingly inexpensive, 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 palms 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 inexpensive, 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 that you would be able to 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 elements.
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 experience off-road, glancing off rocks & rocketing up climbs such as you by no means have. In actual fact, 8 kilograms remains to be simply one in all Bike Forward’s lighter full bikes, nonetheless with a 120mm fork for Path driving.
However with loads of choices & upgrades obtainable, 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 beneath.
The place did it come from?
The Body itself was a number of years in improvement, as Bike Forward collaborated with Carbon Crew to carry 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 fairly spectacular combo for a motorcycle made completely between Portugal & Germany.
Now, constructing that EU-made body up into customizable full bike builds dripping with extra German-made carbon elements, this can be a easy approach to get what Bike Forward describe as “the last word hardtail for racers and purists.”
“We at Bike Forward are massive followers of hardtails. They’re mild, uncomplicated and supply 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 last word full bundle.”
– Christian Gemperlein, Bike Forward Composites founder & CEO
Tech particulars
- One of many lightest manufacturing race bikes on the 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 completely within the European Union
- body manufactured in Portugal by Carbon Crew, 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 driving
- max 29 x 2.4” tire clearance
- unguided inside cable routing within the aspect of the headtube
- 34.9mm seatpost and Intend Corona exterior seatpost clamp
- 12x148mm Enhance spacing & 180mm put up mount brake
- BB92 backside bracket
- UDH common derailleur hanger
- 105kg max rider weight
- 120mm max fork journey
- 4 sizes obtainable (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 finances and extremity of your weight weenie tendencies. And naturally, you possibly can nonetheless purchase the 1979€ frame-only when you’ve got different concepts on 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 greater finances, 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 light-weight carbon Three Zero XC wheels wrapped in 2.25″ Racing Ralphs at <8.00kg full. There are many elective upgrades right here too. You’ll be able to bump journey as much as 120mm with a 34 SC Manufacturing unit (+150€) fork, get a BikeYoke Divine SL (+80€) dropper put up, or shave extra grams with a Bike Forward The Hypersaddle (+300€) or their wild ultralight 6-spoke monocoque carbon BiTurbo RSX (+1500€) wheels.
Availability?
The brand new The Body HT full bike builds can be found to customise your order now by means of a neighborhood Bike Forward seller bike store, with deliveries beginning in February 2025, now only a couple months away.
