Everybody likes a good rumour.

[Oldfella]

Isn't this beautiful. I spotted it in the bike park. A Zerode with an electric Pinion motor gearbox, belt drive and 180mm travel. It's a one off and no talk of production. Nothing like peer pressure to get things moving.

 

[gbcoke]

Some Ai love
Looks like full carbon,what is the chance it's really a one off ?

 

[Mart-e]

It is defiantly Zerode pleasurable to the eye photographically.... Zerode take up your position...... oh yeh the one off....

Would like to view the drive side workings.....

A Rogue review on youtube in comments, bloke claims has ridden it, praising the performance, suggesting.... hold back your coin for this one....

Nice frame design holds somewhat reminiscent with Transitions TR250....

 

[slickrock]

Need to see the drive side. Also, no belt.

 

[Mart-e]

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Isn't this beautiful. I spotted it in the bike park. A Zerode with an electric Pinion motor gearbox, belt drive and 180mm travel. It's a one off and no talk of production. Nothing like peer pressure to get things moving.

just gotta to push it through

 

[mtbant]

hopefully we get to see more of this soon!

 

[Mart-e]

A carbon mule one hit wonder.... a bike staged to photo poser all intentional for a good rumour thread... but was this deliberate holding back on further tech info to one image taken from the non drive side.....

 

[west]

Need to see the drive side. Also, no belt.

Can see the belt if you zoom in

 

[Oldfella]

I saw the bike, talked to the owner, who is involved in Zerode, and took one photo.
If anyone wants to think it's staged thats up to them.

 

[slickrock]

Can see the belt if you zoom in

Yeah, good eye. No underside or transverse spring belt tensioner to be seen though. Maybe it has Zerode G3 bungee tensioner, which IMO is a cool minimalistic design. But even Zerode has done away with it in favor of a Hope spring tensioner. Really do need to see the flipside of this bike.

 

[The Hodge]

Nope..UGLY..
Reminds me too much of an Orange 5..and I never was a fan of that scaffold bike

 

[mtbant]

any more footage of this bike?

 

[Oldfella]

Sorry, I just saw it when I was at a bike park I don't go to very often. But I will keep my eye open when I'm down there next season.

 

[B-man]

Here's Rob the founder of Zerode.

 

[slickrock]

Here's Rob the founder of Zerode.

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Nice MGU rendering, if you like Orange. I was really hoping for MGU version of their HP downhill rig:

That Pinion MGU belt tensioner leaves a lot to be desired. Was hoping to see Zerode's own tensioner design:

 

[Mart-e]

Ok, suspension platforms appears to be moving via a single pivot.... an e powered gearbox belt driven super 8....

l got something new shiny soon out all in process, but yeah id send this a trail nudge to boost!

 

[mtbant]

fantastic! thanks for the replies guys, looks like it might be close to something there. Id be interested in more details, I guess we will need to wait and see!