While on their adventure to the Forest of Dean and Cwmcarn last week Benji, Matt and Dom were shown a new Saracen Myst downhill bike by the guys at Madison. The thing that made this particular bike very special was the fact it had a rather neat Shimano Di2 Electronic Shifting setup on it – is this the future of shifting?
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Nice trainers Alby. 😉
“Jesus check out those pink trainers.”
Not to mention that “new rave” top.
Its all about getting the name talked about rather look at what we can do. Saracen have relaunched for 2010 and the Aerial got the best “fun/play bike” in WMB and if they can get the Myth at a starting price of around the 2K mark I think they are onto a winner. Whispers are you’ll see Killi for next year too…. nice.
I was in Mountain Trax Swinley area and chris the owner has fitted Di2 to his Santa Cruz. He says it works really well.
Thanks Pimpmaster Jazz, they’re Vans Owen Vulc Hi-tops 🙂
what shifter did they use?
to all the people saying teh brand is tarnished
ithought taht at first but tehre is a lot of buzz about the bike on the dh forums it will sell
especially if they put a race team together
and im all for electronic shifting!
Yeah, like toons, I wanna know what shifters they modded in there…
I remember (vaguely, as I didn’t ride anywhere near as much back then) when Saracen where what everyone wanted, before the became chav. They look to be heading back towards the upper end of the scale again, as good solid stuff that is worth riding.
A Gimmick to help promote the rebranding of saracen? Seems like a good way of getting a saracen downhll bike into a bike mag/website aimed at more serious mountain bikers to try and shake the old image of chav shopping bikes.
Apart from always wondering exactly what a “Chav” is – When Saracen were going for a different segment of the market under the previous owners -I.E cheap and cheerful and populist (I imagine that’s upsetting enough for you Adam 5555) they probably got more bums on bike seats than the big three together… Terrible eh?
“I wanna know what shifters they modded in there”
it’s a new 7970 dura-ace satellite shifter
Shifter pic here > http://yfrog.com/5n26765594kj