2015 Norco Aurum Carbon (Full Pics)
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heavyp
You heard it here first
heavyp
You heard it here first
Didn't Lapierre just bring this out for 2015 but with a modified front triangle.
Definitely, less material to use on the area that under goes the the most side to side and torsional flex. Id also wager its not effective from a price standpoint if they can't drop the weight, Alloy has served us well to counter the stress the rear end needs to deal with, if we don't need carbon for its strength/stiffness purposes in the rear, that only leaves us with weight. If they cant engineer it in a way that retains or improves its stiffness while dropping weight its a waste of resources if alloy does the job and is cheaper.
Equally the front end has more mass to loose weight so its the logical first move, its also high over the COG so dropping weight there is hugely beneficial over the rear end which is low and has less bang for buck on return.
I think we can expect most bikes will shift to carbon though in the rear eventually, but that implies that they have one of the following goals.
1.Drop weight while maintaining stiffness, strength etc
2.Maintain weight while improving stiffness,strength etc
3.Drop weight and improving stiffness, strength etc
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FoxRidersCo
Sanity is not statistical
One of these will be at Rampage this year... Fine looking Norco IMO
What brakes is Blenki running on that bike?
andy73
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Formula brakes
that guy was punching a lot of runs at whistler. There were a few people riding the carbons throughout the season, couple of them were unlabeled protos maybe.. norcos are looking a lot better these days