Teased for a few months, Felt has finally lifted the curtain on its new 27.5in wheeled 140mm (150mm front) travel trail bike – the Decree. Felt claim the new bike sets a benchmark for lower maintenance, lower weight and increased stiffness. The Virtue remains as the Californian brand’s 29er trail bike.
Featuring the relatively simple and yet responsive Felt Active Stay Technology (FAST) suspension design, the brand has been able to reach an impressive weight goal in its top tier model - 24.06lb/11.17kg to be exact. Although such an impressive number for a bike with 150/140mm of travel does come at a jaw dropping US$10,000, thankfully there are more affordable options in the Decree line-up.
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The Decree FRD frame is priced at $3,999
Contributing to this enormous price tag is the FRD full carbon frame that will also be available separately for $3,999. Standing for Felt Racing Development, the FRD acronym is given to models where the engineers are given free reign, costs being a secondary consideration. With this, the Decree FRD uses an ‘Ultra High Modulus Ultimate’ carbon fiber for superior stiffness to weight. For comparative sake, the ‘standard’ full carbon Decree 1 frame uses a lower grade of high modulus carbon fibre and sells for $2,999.
Unique to Felt is the use of TeXtreme for its carbon fibre, a technology that claims to create thinner laminates resulting in reduced resin and therefore a higher stiffness to weight ratio, along with improved strength and impact resistance. For the Decree, this technology is only found in the FRD and 1 models.
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