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Ion 16 Breaks Cover
If you go onto the Nicolai website, there is a picture that shows the Ion 16 is being launched at Eurobike, complete with zerostack head tube.
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Last edited by loamranger; 08-20-2012 at 02:47 PM.
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With a 170mm fork that could be the perfect "one" bike
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my perfect "one" bike is my helius am with 170mm lyrik...i hope they wont drop the helius am from the range when the ion 16 surfaces ... the ion looks crap imo.
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 Originally Posted by dr.juggles
. the ion looks crap imo.
I can understand why you think that. If I was a better rider and could justify the extra bikes I'd happily own an Ion14 and 16.
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How can you be sure this is the Ion 16 rather than an 18? It looks like the headset may be zerostack and i know that the top cup on this new head tube is definitely ZS44 rather than ZS56 (as that is what is coming on my frame) so that might be the give away.
Other than that, it looks pretty much like an Ion 18.
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Originally Posted by geetee1972
How can you be sure this is the Ion 16 rather than an 18? It looks like the headset may be zerostack and i know that the top cup on this new head tube is definitely ZS44 rather than ZS56 (as that is what is coming on my frame) so that might be the give away.
Other than that, it looks pretty much like an Ion 18.
Slight differences in the shock mounts to an Ion 18 so it might just be an Ion 16. But what would be the point?
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Slight differences in the shock mounts to an Ion 18 so it might just be an Ion 16. But what would be the point?
Aha, well spotted. What would be the point in an Ion 16? I'm not sure but they're definitely working on it and I suspect there will be other changes to other models coming down the line that might explain the Ion 16.
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The posted blue ano bike is a sweet Ion 18.
The Ion 16 will have a zero stack head tube witch the blue one hasn´t got.
Eurobike is just a few days away, so we will know soon.
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An interesting bike.... More will be revealed in a few days at Eurobike.....
Going to be interesting to see the full line up.....
The_Lecht_Rocks: whafe - cheeers - may i offer an official apology for the wagon wheeler "dis-belief"
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There will be some nice changes in the Helius AC range. Slighly more travel and slacker geometry as seen in the AC 29er review. And the Ion 16 of cause.
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My appologies for misleading information.
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Argon AM
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So the Ion 16 will be fixed travel but variable geometry. No clues yet as to what that geometry will be but long and low is likely.
I'm going to speculate a little:
65.5 HA
74 SA
Medium at 595mm TT
Large at 610mm TT
BB +10mm
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Originally Posted by geetee1972
So the Ion 16 will be fixed travel but variable geometry. No clues yet as to what that geometry will be but long and low is likely.
I'm going to speculate a little:
65.5 HA
74 SA
Medium at 595mm TT
Large at 610mm TT
BB +10mm
Am interested also if in fact it is going to have a really slack SA, but the final position of the saddle is in the correct spot, kind of like my AM 29er or the AFR was....
The_Lecht_Rocks: whafe - cheeers - may i offer an official apology for the wagon wheeler "dis-belief"
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Originally Posted by norcosam
The adjustable geometry is very nicely done,just turn the bolt dropout 180 degrees.Good work Nicolai 
plus the bolts now sit in a recess in the rocker and seal against it via o-ring to keep more gunk away from the bearings...
already did that with my ion by chamfering the holes for the bearings and squeezing a 19x1 o-ring in under the preload "lids"...
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Whafe those are pretty much the numbers I've specced on my tailored AM that should be shipping early next month
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That would make the RS Monarch Plus 663g as a unit, which we all know is not the case.
Current AM is 3.1kg
Ion 16 with RS Monarch is 3.553kg
RS Monarch weighs 325g according to the SRAM website
Thus Ion 16 weighs 3.228kg
The only part that might not be accounted for in this is that the mounting kit for the Ion might be a lot lighter. But if the Ion looks to be 130g heavier, the mounting kit on the AM would have to be ~400g
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Hmmmm, so with bolts and mounting kit, it would add another 150g say, so with the Monarch Plus, that would take the AM to around 3.3kg, so yes, I guess it could be that the Ion 16 is fractionally lighter.
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Thanx
anyways, if its round about the same weight as an AM with not to slack ST angle it could be just what I want^^
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I'm really liking that
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