MDE Bikes (Italy) – "What All Mountain means today: for us an All-Mountain machine must have a very high pedal performance. It is an ideal machine to plan long mountain biking trips in search of new trails and new amazing scenography. It must therefore have a very stable pedal suspension platform and very reactive during acceleration; a suspension that helps optimize traction and to apply all the rider power on the rear wheel. But power is nothing without control and the modern All mountain bicycles requires geometry, rigidity and riding precision as the best enduro bike", stated MDE Bikes.

Based on these requiremets, MDE Bikes redesigned the new Carve. "Our new All-Mountain machine designed to get the most support possible by pedaling with our proven I-link suspension, here updated and optimized, with a new rigid structure and ultra-modern geometry, not so different respect an enduro bike but designed to give the maximum on the rocky and technical alpine trails on which our bikes have always been tested", they added.



Another fundamental concept in the development of the new Carve is MDE Bikes new technology called FAST (Fit all standard tecnology). "Only one frame where you can set all of the most popular standard available on the market today. Our frames with Fast technology allow you to set up the bike with 27.5 wheels with a very shorty chainstay lenght (429mm) or, replacing only the dropouts, you can set 29 or 650b + wheels. Standard 200x57mm and metric 210x55 mm shocks can be fitted due a special braket. 135x10 QR, 142x12mm, 148x12mm and 150x12mm hubs spacing are all possible to set on. Single crown or double crown with front derailleur. Iscg 05 or 03 replecable tabs are available", they concluded.

What's New in the Carve:

• New geometry with shorter rear chainstay lenght and lower bottom bracket. Seat angle is now 75.8° while head tube angle is 66,3 °
• Completely redesigned rear swingarm with new “sabers stealth” machined only from the inside to enlight them. New tubes shapes and new design of the junction from lower stays to the lower pivot rod
• New hydro-formed down tube with larger sections: they worked a lot on the BB area to stiffen the frame and make the bike even more reactive
• The rear shock mounting brackets and the upper rod have been redesigned to ensure more stiffness
• MDE Bikes have redesigned the bottom bracket with a new quick ISCG removable brackets system. Available in both ISCG05 and ISCG03. These brackets can be replaced with a specific spacer, provided with the frame, in case of mounting 1x11 or 1x12 transmission
• Straight vertical tube for Stealth s dropper seatposts with fully internal cable route
• Choice Boost 148 or 142 x 12 with new MDE axis
• New 148mm + 14mm Boost dropouts designed to set 29 or 650b + wheels on the same frame
• Compatibility with 27.5 "wheels (with 150mm fork) or 29" / 650b + (with 130mm / 140mm forks)
• Compatibility with single crowns (1x11 or 1x12) or even with double crowns with Shimano top swing , side pull front derailleur
• Compatible with standard 200x57mm or metric 210x55mm shocks
• New Crystal security control external graphics designed in collaboration with ForkOver Bike Protections to protect the frame where it need

Technical Features:

• 140mm rear travel, with I-Link optimized suspension
• STD rear shocks; Rock Shox Monarch Rt3 Debonair or Rock Shox Deluxe Rt3 Debonair
• 200x57mm or 210x55 shock lenght (FAST tecnology)
• MDE dropout system with 142x12 Maxle, 148x12 Boost, 148x12 Boost + 14mm, 150x12mm rear hubs spacing
• 2.90 kg tg.M
• ZS44 upper , EC49 under haedset dimater (much stronger than ZS56)
• Compatible with new Shimano side pull front derailleur
• 73mm threaded bottom braket
• Replaceable ISCG brackets available in 05 or 03 version
• Use without ISCG support with a spacer
• 7005 Custom hydroformed aluminum tubeset
• 30.9 Seat Post diameter with internal stealth routing
• 27.5x3.0 or 29x2.5 max tires section
• Hand-made in Italy