I'd rather have the weight of that hub in my rear wheel than that high up in the frame. Just a simple double sprocket inline with the axis of the swignarm would do to cure the chain growth. Definately not a new idea. But hi-pivot bikes do work good in the nastier stuff that's for sure. Overall very nice frame.

Funny to see this winning, I guess it's a great accomplishment for a student but overall this can't be manufactured for many different reasons. Bottom line, that's the people's choice award, so what that says is that people are tired of rear derailleurs.

Fuckin awesome !!! Pinkbike is cranking out the best a-fool vids every year !

Don't mean to bash by any ways but I think there ain't much up there that's really awesome and that is an answer to a specific need beside the footsie. All the devices used to keep the chain on, relocate the derailler or CVT transmission are great but are just a plan B to me. Plan A/best solution is a Gearbox integrated frame, period. You can't think that way until you own one, and it's all right. I just hope that most of you guys will end up experiencing the benefits of a gearbox frame somethime in your life. Converting the best seatpost around to accept another "standard" is nothing that great & innovating to me. I think this design exercise really show how much mountain bikes have evolved since the 70's and that most of the stuff has already been thought of, made and done. My vote goes to the footsie.

They still didn't understand that the rear derailler is that one piece of bicycle equipment they need to get rid of and find a better solution, eh...

Grrrrreat idea, seems like it's the evolution of the G-Boxx. I've been riding one for 3 years without a single problem and I love it. Love the Gripshift too. I would like to see the possibility of mounting the swignarm pivot right around the crank axle like the G-Boxx so you don't have to use a chain tensionner like this one above and hear that chain slap going down like a fückin Harley-Davidson idling at a red light.

If you guys are that bad of a rider and end up shifting everytime you hit a jump with a gripshift system or think you can't ride DH with it, then you should probably be riding something like a 26" trike with a 24 pack of beer in the basket on the back. Ride a little more relaxed, you won't have a problem, you don't need to hold on as hard as you can to the bars, typical problem with the true bike riders who've never ridden anything else, goes away when they ride a 215 pound motocross for a season or 2.

Nice pedal that's for sure but I'm questionning the relieves on the front lower side of the pedal where they say the pedal did clip objects... I don't know about that... If you were to look at those pedals after half a season of riding this relief is gonna be where the scratches are, relief or not. Without this relif the rear exterior pin could've been placed more on the outer edge and maybe offer a wider platform, but again I didn't put my feet on'em. DOLLARWISE is one SIMPLE thing to remember guys : they gotta pay for that 1 000 000 $ robot arm that loads and unload the CNC machine... so that explains part of the pricetag. Gotta say they did an awesome job though but at this price I'm gonna go with the industry's nicest jewelry : the new Twenty6 Predator

They're soooo raaad ! The absolute cream of the cream right there ! Got a pair of 6foe on my DH and Prerunners on my XC bike. Those might go on my next full rigid 29er.

Unbelieveble.

Loving the fact that you guys are building "highway trails" (or non-single track trails) with an excavator, way to go guys, doing it MX Style. An idea would be to make'em so you just gotta do one run down with the same machine or a Bobcat to flatten them up for maintenance instead of shovels, sweat & beer... KHMR, still a personal favorite for me.