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Very similar to SC, looks really nice!
New Nukeproof Mega(tower)
New Nukeproof Mega(tower)
Mega 2021:
Assume the Giga(tower) is going to be their super enduro bike.
I still think the Mega is from a carbon mold that has a swap out lower section which can be replaced with fittings for mid-motor.
That's the first time I've seen a water bottle included in catalogue photos, almost as if they were trying to make a point.
Not only does it take a water bottle, it takes the biggest water bottle in the world.
(unless it's a battery, obvs)
So what do we think?
Mega 150mm/160mm & Giga 170mm/180mm?
Zooming into the pic I can see the fork is 180mm, so I'd say 170/180.
Shame it's too much for me, as it looks sick.
Shame it’s too much for me, as it looks sick.
But you could get the new Mega, pictured up there, instead.
brant
I still think the Mega is from a carbon mold that has a swap out lower section which can be replaced with fittings for mid-motor.
Am sure the e-bike version is only round the corner - the MegaWatt
200mm Bikes soon.
I was advised recently by the LBS that a new Mega frame was coming which would take a bottle. Makes the bike look like the older Hightower IMO
Really got to start asking what skill level and what terrain people are riding when you need s bike like this. Sure to see plenty at trail centres that are more suited to hardtail or short travel
Will still sell. Seen way too many fox 38s around Glentress recently.
But you could get the new Mega, pictured up there, instead.
For some reason I love the looks of bikes with lower shock like enduro, hightower etc.
That Mega looks like old SC
Really got to start asking what skill level and what terrain people are riding when you need s bike like this.
Swinley Alps, obviously. 😀
Really got to start asking what skill level and what terrain people are riding when you need s bike like this
Erm, I was riding a bike like this in the Lake District just the other day.
So, not exactly pro level skills but pretty chunky and/or steep trails.
None of my 170mm travel felt superfluous and I would have quite liked a Zeb or 38 on the front.
Where did you get this from?
Spanish forum
Bizarre that this Giga looks a lot like a Santa Cruz (not clear if it will be a VPP or a linkage single pivot rear triangle)
Whereas the new Mega (as per the pro team currently) looks just like a Yeti in sillouette (but as a standard 4bar, and no slidey kashima things)
Trying to cash in on another brand's image?
Trying to cash in on another brand’s image?
More just trying to fit a water bottle in, I reckon.
Spain!! Have you got a link?
There were a couple of instagram posts with CRC riders on what looked to be dissents earlier in the year.
More just trying to fit a water bottle in, I reckon.
but why are the two so different - the new (future) mega takes a bottle, could they not have got another 20mm out of that frame? Most brands have a "look" aacross most of thier models.
EDIT - hadn't seen the DH bike, kind of makes sense to carry that look over to the 180mm park/whatever bike
Its not a Mega(Tower), its a Giga(Donut).
Nukeproof has come a long way since the first generation Megas. Looks like a Santa Cruz though
fingerbang
Nukeproof has come a long way since the first generation Megas.
Yeah, they were a cheap brand from CRC back then, now marketed as a high end bike.
To be fair, they make some really nice looking stuff nowadays, the Reactor is a lovely clean looking bike that's a million miles from that first Mega with the tiny sizing and all the horrible logos, and they have Sam Hill winning the EWS overall on the Mega nowadays, which is more of a race pedigree that most of their competitors.
Gah the mega was a good looking bike because of the straight downtube.
Now look at it. ugh.
What it lost in downtube straightness it has gained in nice clean top tube design
Recent Nukeproofs haven't been all that cheap, so as it's clearly meant to be a cheap Megatower, I wonder whether it'll actually be that cheap.
Mega Looks pretty nice in that yellow team colour though!
Gah the mega was a good looking bike because of the straight downtube.
good looking, I grant you, but I take hydration over looks.
New Mega frame shape is a big improvement IMO.
It does seem like the cycling industry is about to go to 200mm travel enduro bikes but in ten mm steps to sell us obsolescence on the way. Now they're all 33lb why wouldn't you. Plenty of geometrons going about with boxxers on the front to prove the idea works. Plus suits ebikes, and as Brant hinted above will future enduro bikes have to piggy back off the ebike design to take cost advantages of larger production runs?
Although is that mega downtube big enough for a battery on the e mega?
Just to say, that first pic (of the Mega) is the most ridiculous Slanty Photo I think I've ever seen. Look at this extreme corner! Which is, er, completely flat.
I'll wait for the Tera next year, or the Peta the year after that.
Look at this extreme corner!
You mean to say that trees don't grow at 45 degrees? Colour me shocked!
Interesting pics, I guess your 85Nm has to go somewhere. Pretty clever from Nukeproof if correct, I wonder what the sales percentage e bike to enduro is?
Why-oh-why haven't they cut a little hatch in that massive bulbous seattube for tool and snack storage?
woots787
Interesting pics, I guess your 85Nm has to go somewhere. Pretty clever from Nukeproof if correct, I wonder what the sales percentage e bike to enduro is?
Matters much less if you can use your mould for both. I'd say Brant has called it correctly there. Would be very interested to see what they come out with, can only be a mater of time given what they've done with Vitus.
Exactly, but I could imagine a future where 90% of sales of enduro style bikes are ebike, so nice to think that they are less likely to leave the battery free bike completely behind.
Just to say, that first pic (of the Mega) is the most ridiculous Slanty Photo I think I’ve ever seen. Look at this extreme corner! Which is, er, completely flat.
Unless that wall on the right is flat, I think it's also cropped from a fisheye to exaggerate the perspective. Vertical is vertical on the RHS and about 45deg on the left!
Really got to start asking what skill level and what terrain people are riding when you need s bike like this. Sure to see plenty at trail centres that are more suited to hardtail or short travel
Anyone who frequents Revolution and Dyfi bike parks and also pedals to ride similar sized features in local woods. This is basically everyone I know who rides a mountain bike.
Really got to start asking what skill level and what terrain people are riding when you need s bike like this. Sure to see plenty at trail centres that are more suited to hardtail or short travel
Plenty of stuff in the Lake and Peak Districts, Wales etc that is a challenge on a 6" travel bike. I guess the question becomes how much are you prepared to make the winch up about as entertaining as a Turbo training session in return for those few seconds quicker coming down. It was always an inevitability that someone would make a DH bike that weighed 30lb and peddled OK. Chris Porter used to have an Orange 223 built like that, and you can see the logic, with a similar spec the weight difference between a 223 and a 5 was mostly just the fork.
And lots of people have one bike. So may well ride enduro/Dh and then take that bike to a trail center. Just as Ive taken a CX bike. Sub optimal, but still fun.
Just going off my last two bashguard strikes I might destroy that downtube.🙂
that is a challenge on a 6″ travel bike.
is that not the point?
I can see the attraction of pounding your way down Revs or Fort Bill or whatever at the fastest speed money can buy, keeping up with the Joneses on bike performance.
But a big ol' day out in the Lakes?
is that not the point?
I can see the attraction of pounding your way down Revs or Fort Bill or whatever at the fastest speed money can buy, keeping up with the Joneses on bike performance.
But a big ol’ day out in the Lakes?
The eternal question..... For some riders "fun" = "being challenged technically and picking my way down something touch and go", for some it's "cleaning a techy climb", for others still it's "finding maximum speed through a section of trail". I fall into the latter, it's very much about fun = fast. I **can** ride a tech DH section on an underbiked basis but it does absolutely nothing for me, whereas absolutely flying through that same section is a massive buzz.
Plus of course factor lots of people want one bike for everything, and (like me) are more than happy to be "overbiked" (jesus I hate that ****ing phrase though) on blander, flatter rides, or hunt out features on tjose rides to spice things up a bit 👍👍
Trouble with the *overbiked crowd for me is they're just making things harder both technically and fitness for themselves losing out on fun. They might be having fun, but so sure there's more fun in it for them on the appropriate bike for what they actually ride.
*Not much experience, so skill/strength isn't there to tell the bike what to do so looking lost in all that bike. Also predominantly riding very tame stuff nervously. Totally unrealistic about what they actually ride. Not that fit.
A 160-180 bike under a strong, fit, competent rider who needs a one bike solution for trail riding and uplifts, seems like a reasonable solution.
I can think of a couple of 6" plus travel bikes that have been great for big lakes and peaks days.A decent 160mm travel bike these days will be good enough for Fort Bill or an all day pedal. I have to say the Giga looks ace but the Mega that Elliot and Ant are ride seems a better option. And im sure Rockgardz can do something to stop the worry over that MASSIVE down tube. plus an old innertube never hurt if its being ridden down the Beast none stop
I’m not sure if anyone has seen this, but a bit of digging has revealed some more details.
It seems to be carbon only, 180mm as 650b, 170mm as 29er. Both versions use 38mm 180mm travel forks. Otherwise specs are very similar to the 2021 Megas.
No mullet option that I can see.
JP
Straying a bit off topic here.. But why do people get worked up if others choose to be, in their eyes, "over-biked"? What the hell does it matter if a complete stranger is riding a bike with, theoretically, 20mm too much travel for a trail centre?
Because they’re doofuses.
I know someone who can ride Ark at Ee at Wind Hill (black trail with some decent sized doubles and step downs) on a gravel bike. By the logic of the you’re over biked club we should all be able to do this, as it’s possible, so even an XC hardtail is over biked.
JP