Eurobike 15 – DMR Bikes
DMR are celebrating 20 years in business, we check out their latest products including the new Trailstar.
The new DMR Deathgrip is here, almost. Expect to see this new custom grip designed by Brendan Fairclough hitting stores late November for the bargain price of £12.99.
There will most likely be four colour options and two thickness variants to dial down your contact with the bar.
The Deathgrip features four main features in contact with your palm. Ruffian style, a classic sits alongside a waffle to help out in wet weather. The mushroom sits on the inside of grip for the inside of your thumb, this is to help with fatigue giving more comfort and padding finished off with a flange, because MX is cool right!?
Just one lock-on collar for the Deathgrip, letting you hang off the end of your bars with rubber rather than aluminium digging into your hand. To keep the grip from turning into an MX style throttle, the inside end of the grip is tapered, smash it on your bars, do up the collar and it wont be going anywhere.
This camo colour will be way more dialled in for production, if you can see it?
DMR are 20 this year, what better way to celebrate than to re-release the classic which is the..
DMR Trailstar. (bought up to date for 2016 MTB)
This particular Trailstar on display is dripped in a retro paint job, let the reminiscing commence.
So why is this here? Well, to the guys at DMR the Trailstar is where it all started (after their first frame which was a BMX) and to be honest, it’s what kicked off hundreds of rider biking lives back in the day. DMR have aimed to capture what the Trailstar was all about, a hard hitting mountain bike that you could grab out the shed and go for a shred, nothing else mattered, just ridding bikes.
Launching forward we are now in 2016 product, so the Trailstar is quite different to the original. They didn’t want to jump backwards, lots has been learnt in the last two decades! The frame fits 275 wheels with a 12×142 axle and if you really wanted to, you could put the whole plus size thing to test in the Trailstar with its 2.8 inch clearance.
Will Vaults become as classic as the V8/V12 was? We think so.
The BB sits nice and low on the Trailstar paired up with a low standover height and slack head angle (66) making it a bike which shouldn’t be holding you back.
Droppers are the norm on most mountain bicycles these days, so DMR have let you fit a stealth one.
These are in stock now, so get them while they are hot. £499.99 frame only. It wont be long before we take ourselves back in time with the Trailstar and let you all know if time has been kind to it.
We have had a glance at the new DMR Axe cranks before in their new Alpine devision, but now they are landing with compatibility on 83mm shell bikes, expect to see them on some familiar DH bikes soon.
