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Pro bike: Marie-Hélène Prémont’s Rocky Mountain Vertex RSL Team

Direct Mount looks like the latest standard to be adopted by frame makers.

  • Canadian cross-country star Marie-Hélène Prémont will compete for one more year aboard Rocky Mountain's newest Vertex RSL Team carbon hardtail.
  • Canadian cross-country star Marie-Hélène Prémont will compete for one more year aboard Rocky Mountain's newest Vertex RSL Team carbon hardtail.
  • Rocky Mountain says the new direct mount front derailleur allows for more liberties in shaping the bottom bracket area.
  • Direct Mount looks like the latest standard to be adopted by frame makers.
  • This smooth integrated seat clamp is typical of the design detail on the new Rocky Mountain.
  • The down tube surface has a distinct concave curve.
  • It’s business as usual up front with huge tube sections to increase stiffness.
  • Fox finally offers consumers a handlebar-mounted lockout for 2009.
  • The lockout lever is designed and manufactured for Fox by Shimano.
  • Prèmont also gets a Rocky Mountain-edition Sigma computer.
  • As there's no need to allow for a conventional clamp, Rocky Mountain could shape the seat tube nearly however it wanted.
  • Neatly integrated cable guides run the length of the frame.
  • This Hutchinson tyre is a special soft compound edition and was perfect for the unpredictable Schladming course last month.
  • Curved seat stays provide a unique look.

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Direct Mount looks like the latest standard to be adopted by frame makers.

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