A STEEL XC bike?! Starling Cycles Mini Murmur | Workshop Chatter
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 25 มิ.ย. 2024
- Can a steel, full suss XC bike ever be any good?
We reckon so - and we just made the Starling Cycles Mini Murmur. It's a steel-framed, single-pivot Starling mountain bike with 120mm of travel.
Here's Starling's main man Joe to explain all about it and why we decided it was a good idea.
More on Starling here: www.starlingcycles.com/bikes/...
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I had the privilege of riding this very bike in the Starling 0:53 parking lot. It accelerates like a rocket. It’s so amazing that one frame can be build up is so many exciting ways.
Absolute dream machine!!!
What I’d like to do: Murmur (or possibly Twist…) frame, 2 different sets of suspension and wheels for enduro/ XC. The minimal time it would take me to swap that out seems well worth it!
I remember when 100mm was your long travel bike... those were the days.
Very nice Bike. Is this a Medium+ ?
Each time Joe talks about wheel weight, I remember the articles of Bicycle Quarterly and Jan Heine, saying that wheel weight doesn't matter that much because bikes don't accelerate (or brake) as fast as a car or a motorcyle ... but from my personnal experience they make a bike much more faster than the same weight saved on the other parts of the bike ... I don't know wich one is true :D
Good point, i should clarify.
For a road bike you are just overcoming losses, so agreed wheel weight has minimal impact.
But for mountain bikes on rough terrain, every bump and lump acts to slow the wheel down. You are constantly having to put in energy to accelerate the wheels again. Lighter wheels need less energy!
I really like this bike, I've been drooling over a murmur for awhile. I'd really like to try it with a 52.5 stroke shock and a 140mm fork.
I'll pinch that water bottle line, if you don't mind, xx
That looks rapids, looks like it can take a beating too
Could you run a 130mm fork on that?
Yep, that would be good!
"Not an enduro bike". Brother it's steel, I would be throwing myself off cliffs on this thing 🤪. I used to ride enduro trails on a 100mm 'XC' bike. Anyway looks like a blast.
Just say the weight!
Agreed, you’d be better off saying “it’s X weight, but here’s why that doesn’t matter”. Going on a rant just makes it sound overly defensive.
It's about 14ishKG with inserts. How's that?
Thnx
@@starlingcycles835 oh that sounds quite heavy for a downcountry bike 😬
@@markbrown9803 hopefully you're winding us up!!