Looks like a quality job and very neat execution. Love the flipchip
Future competition for Starling?
http://baudou-bikes.com/en/project/morph-cycless-full-suspension-frame/
Tis nice.
Can someone remind me of the benefits of a rocker driven single pivot shock over a plain old single pivot only? (Swarf v Starling).
I am slightly concerned that the T shirts & stickers are up on the website before the frames.....
In the two pictures the frame is in-line either heading towards or awy, so you can't see the frame details, and the picture with the guy jumping is on a different frame...
The lad is still at Uni, and I think this is part of his degree working on linkage curves etc. He hasn't ridden it yet as far as I can tell, and is not looking to sell at the mo.
He's designed it in CAD then he's had the balls to pay for it to be built. It's made by a French frame builder
I am slightly concerned that the T shirts & stickers are up on the website before the frames…..
Proven business model 😉
a straight single pivot bike tends to not have the progressive suspension feel like a linkage driven one and is more dependant on the shock used to acheive this. Not sure how Orange bikes get away with it tbh. Maybe their bikes are different or just rely on the shock doing all of the progressive work.
I have got a single pivot heckler with a coil shock (fox dhx5) and the suspension is great for riding hits and mini dh etc. However when I had an air shock it was hopeless and blew though it's travel too much. It was fine for xc though, but the bike is beefy and is designed for more aggressive riding.
Isn't Morph Stiff's in house frame brand?
He realized the design and studied the kinematics of the framework on a software until arriving at the result of the concept that he proposed to me to manufacture it.
It's a single pivot without any sort of linkage. That a bit like saying
He realized the design and studied the kinematics of the round wheels and having both wheels in line with the center of the frame on a software until arriving at the result of the concept that he proposed to me to manufacture it.
It really hasn't re-invented the wheel. Not necessarily a bad thing (I agree with his comment that easy maintenance is an overlooked aspect on a lot of bikes) but he does appear to have basically recreated Murmur, which in itself is in concept a steel Orange Stage6.
"DJ Inspired Styling"?
It would be hard not to make a simple single pivot steel frame look like a Starling but I think that's taking the proverbial.
Still . . . flattery and all that . . .
Morf is the Stif branded hardtail, not Morph - but it still fooled me!
I lost interest at "quiver killer " .
Designed to be a quiver-killer
I'm out. Sorry, but that phrase makes me sick in my mouth.
Looks it will be mid June till the frame is built up as he's waiting till he's finished his final exams
Hate to be negative and all but...what does this bring to the market that many frames offered by established brands don't already?
I know for some the appeal is purely a bike that none of their mates have got but how big is that market?
He's taking orders now. £400 deposit.
"The guide price is £2200 for a frame with no shock, or £2400 including a DVO Topaz T3 Air."
That's an expensive frame but he appears to be throwing the shock in at half price.
Pricier than Stanton, I'm not sure he'll sell many.
Looks nice though!
Looks lovely but then I do have a Starling so I would say that.
Not sure about the parrallelogram swing arm brace though, that's going to do F*** all
I love a steel frame me but the engineer in me winces at the expected loads fed into shocks on flexy frames without isolating linkages.
Production Privee with their Shan No5 do it correctly.
