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.
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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.
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/.
