DW Link spread its wings

For years, most of us who are looking for aluminium DW Link bikes can only find it on IronHorseBikes , but fear no more cause for 2008 they will be a new company who will use DW Linkage, some of you might heard of it and some of you might not, but anyway Chris Cocalis (ex-Titus) is launching his own bicycle company named PivotCycles. Okay I know the site havent been updated yet but the bike has been shown at Interbike which is happening now.

So what do PivotCycle will offer us?
First up is the bike as stated in my first paragraph will be made out of aluminium. Secondly is it will be available in both 4" and 5" version. The bikes a named Mach 4 or 5 depending on its travel (it must be fast cause the name says it all). There is still no official weight of the bike yet and riders dont need to worry about the rear linkage because as I said before, its using world renowned DW Link (which can be found in IronHorseBikes or Ibis).

Anyway below are the pics of the new Mach 5 (pics provided by Cyclingnews.com)




From the pics, the linkage supporting the shock is interestingly design, it looks like they are 2 pair of pivots on the upper link and the bike features a top mounted shock position and there is no seatstay bracer which could possibly means that the bike would mostlikely to perform flawlessly in muddy condition (very usefull for UK weather) and will most likely have the feeling of a very flickable bike. None of this is confirmed yet but we will see what the journalist comment on the bike in future bike magazines.

Update #1 : okay, I recently browsed through BikeRadar.com and found a Mach 4 pic. See below: