We got a run down of Matt’s race day set up, and a back story on the development of the new bike that is due to go to production by the end of this year.
of the Madison Saracen Factory Team have been piloting a new downhill bike since January, a frame that is now into its second phase of prototyping. The latest Saracen Myst prototype was raced by the aforementioned at last weekend’s Fort William episode of the British Downhill Series.Matt Walker demonstrated that he remains a continued threat, placing 2nd behind Santa Cruz Syndicate’s Laurie Greenland, but ahead of the likes of Amaury Pierron, Charlie Hatton, Troy Brosnan and Loris Vergier.
By housing the brake caliper on a floating arm that is mounted to the bottom bracket, rather than on the swingarm, braking forces are directed into the front triangle instead of the rear; as a result, the swingarm is free to move in response to the terrain and the rider’s cycles of weighting and un-weighting, regardless of whether or not the rear brake is being applied.
Where the production Myst delivers its 200mm of rear wheel travel via a single-pivot push-link arrangement, the new frame utilizes a six-bar linkage. The shock is positioned through a partition in the seat tube, and is driven by a link nested below it. A key element of the Myst prototype’s suspension design is the articulated rear end, wherein the chain stay and seat stay meet at a pivot concentric to the rear axle, with the brake caliper mounted to the seat stay. This is put in place to isolate the suspension from rear brake-induced braking forces. As a result, the prototype Myst has no need for a floating brake arm.
Geometry wise, the new Saracen Myst is to be very similar to the production Myst. It was important to Matt that the new bike feel familiar to him, and so his prototype race bike has a 480mm reach, the same as the current bike in a size medium. That said, the 56mm head tube does allow for use of a +/- 5mm reach adjusting headset.
The Madison Saracen Factory Race Team made use of the BYB Telemetry system during practice on Saturday. The downtube has a wee port just fore of the shock mount for an option to run its cables internally.Cables enter the head tube closer to the front in order to keep things tidy in the cockpit
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