South African company Pyga Industries – the brainchild of famed frame designer Patrick Morewood and Leatt cofounder Brian Hopkins – has announced two new shorter-travel carbon 29ers to complement its current range of trail bikes: the 95mm-travel Stage for full-on cross-country competition; and the 126mm-travel Stage Max for marathon racing. They’re expectedly sleek and light but it’s the progressive geometries and novel rear-end design that promises to make both bike an absolute hoot to ride.
Pyga has built both bikes with unusually long and slack front ends, with the Stage sporting a 68.5-degree head tube angle and the longer-legged Stage Max wearing a 67.5-degree front end. On average, cockpit reach is also about 15mm longer than mainstream competitors for what Pyga says is handling characteristics more in keeping with modern trail bikes.
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Pyga says the new bikes are intended to handle ideally with 70mm stems
“When designing this bike, our focus was on creating a bike suitable for pros as well as the general rider,†Morewood told BikeRadar. “We therefore felt that a slacker fork angle was in order. To achieve this, we needed to extend the reach and therefore shorten the required stem length. A 70mm stem may not be regarded as short, but in stage racing or marathon terms it is. The Stage Max can be comfortably ridden with 50mm stem.â€
Things get even more interesting out back with what Pyga calls ‘Plus 5’ wheel and dropout spacing. In contrast to Boost 148 – where the rear dropouts are symmetrically spread apart by 6mm and the chainrings pushed outward 3mm to match – Plus 5 keeps the chainrings exactly where they are but offsets a standard 142x12mm rear wheel 5mm to the driveside.
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