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Nathan Rennie and Mitchell Delfs' World Champs Morewood Bikes
by brule
Posted: Sep 1, 2009
Source: Mathieu Dupelle
I just finished building up Mitch's World Championships bike and wanted to share it with you all. Nathan and his mechanic Nigel just put the finishing touches from Race Face, Burgtec, Mavic, SRAM and Obtanium on his Morewood frame too. Nathan feels good on the course and he likes it, this type of course suits his power pedaling. Mitch's course description for this race would be BMX type turns and jumps with a massive drag strip at the bottom. Although this is not the type of course that suits Mitch, he wants a good result for the World Champs as they are in his own country.
Check out more details and all the pics inside of Nathan and Mitch's bikes,
I just finished building up Mitch's World Championships bike and wanted to share it with you all. Nathan and his mechanic Nigel just put the finishing touches from Race Face, Burgtec, Mavic, SRAM and Obtanium on his Morewood frame too. Nathan feels good on the course and he likes it, this type of course suits his power pedaling. Mitch's course description for this race would be BMX type turns and jumps with a massive drag strip at the bottom. Although this is not the type of course that suits Mitch, he wants a good result for the World Champs as they are in his own country.
Check out more details and all the pics inside of Nathan and Mitch's bikes,
Bike set ups - some of the racers have special set ups that are very non traditional to normal downhill racing. Some have smaller travel bikes and some full on downhill bikes with lock out suspension. We're gonna run what we brought and have been running all season, Morewood Makulus:
-Mathieu
-Mathieu
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ronniealio
(Sep 2, 2009 at 0:20)
SIIIIIIIIIIICK bikes, i want one, or both
Weird. One of them does have a 185mm front and 203mm rear. There's no reason why you'd want a small front rotor IMO. Just lay off the lever.
But, then again, I aint pro...
But, then again, I aint pro...
Those are really nice looking. I'm slightly concerned by the 3 "feather" looking cut-outs on the shock pass-through on the seat-tube. That looks like a weak point/stress-concentrator. Otherwise, pure class!
if the worlds have almost no vertical, then why wont they just use one of their shorter travel bikes? its lighter and more pedal efficient.
oh yea i know about how theyre using the sx trails. but doesnt team morewood have similar bikes? i think they would get better runs with the pedal efficency.
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German?
I love how BOS claim that steel springs are better (hence why they don't sell them) yet rennie is running a ti one. contradiction? I think so!
I love how BOS claim that steel springs are better (hence why they don't sell them) yet rennie is running a ti one. contradiction? I think so!
'alistaircv' - its Delfs' bike that has the grey spring actually, and by the way its wound, it looks just like a normal steel spring but painted grey instead of black
they arnt painted grey you idiots... if you read the article you would notice that it said they are partnered with obtanium...they make titanium springs....
I know it says Delfs is sponsored by Obtanium, but Obtanium only make one spring type for each spring rate and use spacers to make the spring fit each shock, Obtanium springs have a much larger diameter and bigger spacing between the coils than that spring too - I'm not saying for sure that it isn't, but many pro riders run Maxxis tyres whilst flying the flag of another tyre mfr... I think the same is going on here, it looks identical to the Bos spring Rennie has on his bike, just grey so it looks like a Titanium spring at a glance - it wouldn't hurt to have your brand name written on Mitch Delfs' bike now would it? even if he wasn't actually using their products!
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BOS suspension is French, they are made by a guy called Oliver Bossard he used to be Nico's mechanic, he has done alot for formula 2 rally cars in europe
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haha, they scrubbed the maxxis logos of the tyre. they should get the tip x out and turn them into limited edition kendas. 
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+1 because the 2010 The one brakes have black levers,gold bolts and The one decals written on the lever body.Nathan is running the R1 and im not blind because i see these brakes all the time.
Well obviously they aren't prototype. They aren't out yet, but they come with complete bikes prerelease model 2010.
^^ Most of the riders are running smaller rotors due to the track being very pedal worthy thus not much need for heavy braking.
don't let that van outta your sight , you hear to many stories about bikes getting stolen and those are beauties ;-)
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