The typical long chainstays on other 29ers makes for that characteristic semi-truck handling. What immediately stood out about the Yelli Screamy is that the rear chainstay is extremely short at 16.7″, while the current Gary Fisher frames are almost 18″.
CANFIELD NIMBLE 9 CHAIN RING TRIAL
Their initial product was not perfect, but they were driven to not settle for mediocrity. Through trial and error and many revisions, they learned what worked, and, more importantly, how it worked.Īrmed now with over a decade of experience, they make some of the most unique, best-performing, low-maintenance bikes available. They still use the same fabricator, who now also makes all of the frames for Niner. They found a well-known and respected fabricating outfit from Taiwan that turned out a limited quantity for testing.
They started with nothing but two guys, a vision, and their first design, a downhill frame with 12″ of travel (yes, 12″)! Lance was disenchanted about the bones he’d dropped on a frame that didn’t perform, but Chris convinced him to dive in together to make a bike that would solve all of these problems. There was no point in making a copy, so instead he bought that other company’s frame. As with many of the early full-suspension design, for as many advantages as this bike offered it had just as many flaws, such as mushy pedaling, brake-jack, and weird handling in certain parts of the travel. It turned out that Lance was also squeezing in a lot of work time drawing up bike frames. He came up with a full-squish design that he thought would make a killer bike and decided to make one for himself. Less than a year later, some other company put out a frame that was almost identical to his concept. Just over a decade ago, hardtails were still the only real definition of a mountain bike, and fully suspended frames had just begun to emerge. Chris was a college student who enjoyed riding. At the same time, his brother, Lance, was working for a company that made fiberglass enclosures for ATM machines. He gave us an amazing one-hour lecture on bike suspensions systems that would cream the pants of any bike geek and also prove that Canfields’ parallel link suspension designs are as well-thought out and perform equal to or better than any VPP, DW-link or any other popular design on the market. Static measurement (not sagged).Canfield Brothers: Lance (left) and ChrisĪaron and I rode in Chris’ van on the way to Castle Rock. Along with being a friendly and humble guy, he and his brother, Lance, are pioneers in suspension systems and just about anything innovative to do with mountain biking.Ĭhris summed up their design philosophy by stating, “We don’t make bikes to make money, but because we love to ride. We only want to make bikes if we know they will be better than everything else out there.” ( Based on 150mm fork, 563mm Axle to Crown) Size
Custom sliding Boost 148mm x 12mm rear dropouts, axle included.Radial-bent seat stays for vertical compliance.MRP Ribbon Air 150mm w/ Custom Canfield Decals A slack 66 -degree head-angle keeps things confident when you venture where no hardtail should, and short chainstays (adjustable down to 16.33 -inches via sliding dropouts) make sure the Nimble 9 lives up to its name. Handcrafted in small batches, the Canfield Bikes Nimble 9 is a steel all-mountain hardtail built to get rowdy and designed to accommodate 29-inch, 29-plus or 27.5-plus wheels with up to 2.8-inch tires.Ĭombining the revered ride quality of 4130 chromoly steel with updated aggressive all-mountain geometry, the Nimble 9 challenges preconceptions of mountain bikes with both big wheels and rigid rear-ends.
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