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Ognjeni ptič

16. June 2010

Firebird. Pivot Firebird. Ptič iz male štalice koles, oz. okvirjev Pivot Cycles, izdelek o katerem smo hoteli čivkati pred slabima dvema tednoma. Žgolenje smo zavili v temo z naslovom Dave Weagle in sicer zaradi sistema vzmetenja, ki pri tem okvirju odigra glavno vlogo (očitno ima v rokavu še kako neodkrito karto). Gre za nihajni sistem DW-Link in poglejmo kaj o Američanovem izdelku pravi tester s tega linka:

The harder you push the shock on a climb, the more the DW-Link kicks in. You can stand on the pedals and whale away without feeling any wallow or give. Particularly on a steep climb, with maybe a switchback or two thrown in, DW-Link saves the day. Your rear end just bites into the trail, even on loose stuff, and moves you forward as though you were riding asphalt. I know this sounds like reviewer hype, but trust me, I’ve been there. Even when you hit a rock or root going up, it doesn’t impede. The rear wheel rolls right over it almost unnoticeably. I’ve found it’s better to keep the rear wheel weighted, in fact — counter-intuitively so, where I’ve ridden before and always had to thrust my torso forward or stand or otherwise maneuver to get up over a rise or obstacle

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Navdušenje nad to vrstico je bilo namenjeno plezalnim sposobnostim Pivota in DW-Linka, v zvezi s spustaškimi kapacitetami pa se je testerju izpisal sledeč odstavek:

The Firebird blew away my expectations. Going downhill was like being a kid again, where your reflexes are firing and you’re totally sync’d with the bike and you think there’s nothing you cannot do. I did a couple of log rolls I’d always had trouble with so smoothly that I wished they were bigger and harder. I glided over a rooty boneyard like a bearing over glass. I banged down rocky creek channels and went airborne from ledges further than I’d ever done before. At the bottom I was sucking wind, not from wrestling with the bike but from pinning it to the max the entire way.

Sodelovanje gospodov z imenoma Chris Cocalis in Dave Weagle je skorajda pravljično. Prvi je pred nastopom funkcije v hiši Pivot Cycles predsedoval podjetju Titus, drugi je zagotovo najbolj referenčno ime v svetu nihajnih sistemov gorskih koles. Oba sta znana po pikolovski natančnosti in po dejstu, da izpod njunih razvojnih prstov vedno prihajajo hudo uporabni kosi. Lahki, všečni, predvsem pa funkijsko izjemni. Nedosegljivi. Pred Pivotom še nista sodelovala, tokrat pa sta združila znanje. End the rest ...

Torej, pred nami je pravljični projekt. Projekt, ki mu v naši hiši še ni bilo para. Okvir je zagotovo glavni krivec za pravljične dimenzije, a ne smemo mimo vzmetne vilice. Tudi slednje v imbbusu še nismo imeli priložnosti občudovati.

Več pa v prihodnjih dneh. Najprej se bomo natančneje posvetili okvirju, nato pa verjetno sestavljenemu biciklu.