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Contes Engineering Quad Bike (pic heavy)


hawkeye's picture

By hawkeye - Posted on 12 May 2013

Just the thing for the red centre?

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Hop fiend's picture

But fitted with Fox shocks n SPD's-looks a hoot!

GAZZA's picture

But I guess it's not made for singletrack?
Would be fun racing against others on a purpose built course though!

MrMez's picture

Maybe when I'm 100 years old, and I can't stand up, and I hate single track, and I have a butler to shuttle me.
Then MAYBE.

As an engineering exercise I'm quite impressed.

As something to actually RIDE, I'll pass.

-How do you get the thing out there? It's not going to fit in or on my car. That means a trailer. If im going to bother with that, I may as well grab one of the motorbikes and get some track time.

-HEAVY! I cried when I put 1.3kg 2.5 DH tires on my 12Kg AM bike. What size are those? 3.5, 4.5? Weight im estimating at ~40Kg. Have fun pushing.

-Where to ride? Obviously a location-specific issue, but in Perth you have boring fire trails, awesome single track, and jumps at the GF, and I just can't see that working in any of these places.

-COST. How much. A hand made frame, mini diff, 4x shocks, 4x wheels, 4x brakes and all the custom made suspension and drivetrain bits, along with an attempt to recoup R&D costs over a potentially small number of sales...I'll be shocked if they can sell it for under $10,000 and stay in business.

Probably a great thing to rent on holiday somewhere.... pay your money and get x rides and shuttles back up.

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