{"id":20951,"date":"2014-09-01T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-09-01T03:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/2014\/09\/01\/project-black-part-3-the-light-enduro-build-r1580\/"},"modified":"2023-02-08T11:56:48","modified_gmt":"2023-02-08T11:56:48","slug":"project-black-part-3-the-light-enduro-build-r1580","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/project-black-part-3-the-light-enduro-build-r1580\/","title":{"rendered":"Project BLACK: Part 3 – The Light Enduro Build"},"content":{"rendered":"

South Africa\u2019s the leader in MTB stage races, but it is also adopting enduro racing with fervour. Fast catching on around South Africa, this discipline attracts a new breed of rider: from XCO and DH. Does that mean you need another bike in your garage? We\u2019d say yes (as you can never have too many), but the bank manager might having something to say about that\u2026<\/p>\n

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One bike with three personalities: the bike geeks at Momsen in Port Elizabeth have cooked up a lightweight enduro racer in the final instalment of their Project BLACK series. The murdered out VIPA frame takes a central role once more, transforming almost fluidly from an 8.35kg weight weenie build, to a 9.60kg World Cup XCO race rig and now to a 10.82kg enduro bike. That is pretty versatile by anyone\u2019s definition.<\/p>\n

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Enduro requires speed; on the downhill\u2019s, climbs, flats and twisting tight turns. This is singletrack, on speed. A light bike is most desired, but with enough travel for the rider to tackle jumps with confidence. The trick is that the bike should still be able to climb, and climb well. Read on to see how the Momsen men achieved this.<\/p>\n

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Equipped with a Rockshox Revelation 130mm fork and a Cane Creek DB Inline rear shock, the dynamics of their low leverage ratio suspension design and frame geometry engineered with Patrick Morewood makes this devour jumps, berms and rock gardens with ease. The 80mm of rear travel don\u2019t feel that way on the trails: that is down to the black magic worked by Patrick Morewood and Victor Momsen.<\/p>\n

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SRAM\u2019s XX1 drivetrain with KMC\u2019s superlight X11SL chain are bolted to the carbon frame, fitted with Momsen Design\u2019s DOWNer 60mm Carbon stem, 715mm wide UP\/DOWN carbon handlebars dressed with their Race Silicone grips add race-winning bling to the build. To make this bike stand out even more as a serious enduro machine, they have equipped it with a Rockshox Reverb dropper seatpost, SRAM\u2019s XO Trail brakes, and the now ubiquitous fender, a Momsen Design carbon model. The saddle\u2019s a Fizik Thar, and they\u2019ve completed the build with grippy Arisun\/Momsen Tubeless Ready (TLR) tyres mated to Stan\u2019s NoTubes ZTR Arch EX wheels with 3.30 hubs.<\/p>\n

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This isn\u2019t just an enduro bike built from equipment lying around in their offices. The enduro build has been a pet project of Victor Momsen and his staff who\u2019ve themselves embraced enduro racing and riding. They\u2019ve built this to be the bike they shred with, they love riding and one we\u2019d love to ride and race too. We now understand why Momsen calls the VIPA a \u201csuperbike\u201d \u2013 it does just about everything, and does it with South African style and flair for performance.<\/p>\n

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\nIf you missed <\/em>Part 1<\/em><\/a> and <\/em>Part 2<\/em><\/a> of the <\/em>Project BLACK series<\/em><\/a>, take a look at the Weight Weenie build <\/em>here<\/em><\/a> and the Real World Racer build <\/em>here<\/em><\/a>.<\/em>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

South Africa\u2019s the leader in MTB stage races, but it is also adopting enduro racing with fervour. Fast catching on around South Africa, this discipline attracts a new breed of rider: from XCO and DH. Does that mean you need another bike in your garage? We\u2019d say yes (as you can never have too many), […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":51431,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[4801,220,425,426,4802,1078],"featured_location":[],"class_list":["post-20951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech","tag-build-project","tag-enduro","tag-momsen","tag-momsen-vipa","tag-project-black","tag-vipa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20951\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20951"},{"taxonomy":"featured_location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/featured_location?post=20951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}