Salsa Bucksaw Carbon - first look

Salsa Bucksaw Carbon - first look

Full suspension fat bike now available with a carbon frame

Salsa Cycles already has a carbon version of its full suspension fat bike in the works

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Josh Patterson

Published: November 6, 2014 at 6:12 pm
Salsa Cycles already has a carbon version of its full suspension fat bike in the works - Courtesy
The Bucksaw uses the Split Pivot suspension system - Courtesy
The Bucksaw Carbon complete will come with a SRAM X01 drivetrain - Courtesy
Geometry of the Bucksaw Carbon is the same as the aluminium version introduced earlier this year - Courtesy

Salsa Cycles has just released details of the next fat bike in its line-up: the Bucksaw Carbon. The Minneapolis, Minnesota-based company unveiled the aluminium version of this full suspension fat bike earlier this year and has wasted no time in creating a carbon fiber counterpart.

Related reading: Salsa Bucksaw First Ride Review

The Bucksaw Carbon shares the same frame geometry as the alloy version and offers the same 100mm of rear suspension travel via Dave Weagle’s Split Pivot suspension platform. Likewise, the Bucksaw carbon has external cable routing, a 121mm-wide PressFit bottom bracket, a 177x12mm rear thru-axle and is designed to accommodate 26x3.8in tyres on rims up to 82mm wide.

Salsa claims the move to carbon shaved approximately 300g from the aluminium frame.

The bucksaw uses the split pivot suspension system: - Courtesy

Both the aluminium Bucksaw and Bucksaw Carbon use carbon seatstays with aluminium chainstays

The Bucksaw Carbon will be available in the spring of 2015. Salsa will offer it as frame with Monarch RT3 shock for US$2,699, as well as a single complete build that will retail for US$6,499.

The complete Bucksaw Carbon will come equipped with a RockShox Bluto fork, SRAM X01 drivetrain,Guide RS brakes and a RockShox Reverb stealth seatpost. The complete bike will roll on 70mm wide Whisky No. 9 carbon rims shod in Schwalbe’s new Jumbo Jim tyres.

Interested in a full suspension fat bike but turned off by the price of carbon? If so, you’ll be glad to know The aluminium Bucksaw 1 and Bucksaw 2 will be available later this month.

For more information visit http://salsacycles.com/.

Josh Patterson

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Josh Patterson is a BikeRadar contributor and former technical editor. He has spent most of his career working in the cycling industry as an athlete, mechanic and journalist. He holds a master's degree in journalism and has more than 20 years of experience as a cyclist and 12 years of experience riding and writing for BikeRadar, Cyclingnews, Cycling Weekly, Dirt Rag, RoadBikeReview and Outside Magazine. A native of the Flint Hills of Kansas, Josh was a pioneer in the gravel cycling movement, having raced the first Unbound 200 and many other gravel events around the globe. He considers himself a cycling generalist and enjoys road, gravel and mountain biking in equal measure. When not traveling for work, he can be found exploring the singletrack and lonely gravel roads that surround his home in Fort Collins, Colorado. In addition to his love of cycling, Josh is an enthusiastic supporter of brunch, voting rights and the right to repair movement.
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