The Decree is Felt's latest bike, and fills the 140mm, 650b-wheeled gap in the firm’s mountain bike line. With a five bike range and price points ranging from £2,250 / $3,499 to £7,999 / $9,999 (Australian pricing was TBC at time of writing) it does so for a lot of different budgets. Two major features stand out when it comes to the Decree – its unusual suspension system and its low weight.
Related: Felt Decree First Look
At a glance, the Decree has a similar look to many competitors in this segment – but take a closer look and you’ll notice the seatstay doesn’t have a pivot where most bikes with a similar suspension design would do. That’s because the Decree doesn’t use the Equilink suspension system Felt uses on its longer-travel bikes. Instead it pulls out a classy acronym: FAST, or Felt Active Stay Technology, and a design that it already uses successfully on its excellent Edict 29er.
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Where's the pivot gone?
So, doing away with a pivot that Felt knows works perfectly well… what's going on there? Felt says that dropping the pivot saves on weight, allows for an increase in stiffness and provides for unique suspension characteristics that benefit the rider.
There’s definitely truth in that too, with an impressive claimed frame and shock weight of only 2,100g and even the cheapest complete build Decrees supposedly tipping Felt’s scales at under 30lbs / 13.6kg – very strong numbers.
First ride impressions: in a cutthroat marketplace, it it enough?
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