2010

18" Lrg - XL, 16.5" Sml - Med

The Abyss frame uses shaped and extruded tubes that are selected to offer a smooth and accurate ride at a low weight - it's a lower slung, beefed-up version of our proven Core series frame.
We reject curvy, hydroformed fashions in order to have greater control over wall thicknesses and tube integrity and use a greater range of tube dimensions across different frame sizes than we could if using hydroformed tubes.
Overall frame weight is now between two and four ounces lighter than our previous Core frame design.
For a structure that has to cope with forces as dynamic as a bike frame does, tubes are still hard to beat in terms of stiffness to weight balance.
By simply tapering or ovalising the main frame tubes in the right places we can tune the levels of stiffness in various parts of the frame, and adding head tube reinforcements and thicker-wall chainstays and down tubes add impact strength for tough trail use.

If the downs are more important than the ups, the Abyss has ISCG mounts for a 1x9 gear set-up.

A larger diameter, reinforced top tube and down tube plus a ring-reinforced head tube take the stresses of 140mm travel forks.

Plenty of mud clearance from the wishbone seatstays and curved chainstays

6061 T6 triple-butted aluminium

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