Niner Bikes Announces New Air 9 and E.M.D. 9 Frames

The New Niner Air 9: Strong, Lighter

Niner riders hit daylong idolized the simplicity of an impureness hardtail with enthusiastic mate quality. For those riders, we are excited to foretell updated Air 9 and E.M.D. 9 frames, acquirable immediately.

New Frame Material:

For the updated Air 9, we hit designated a newborn acquirable metal impureness from the 6000 series family. For those who are metal loyalists, this may require a modify in mindset, but the advantages of our activity are clear. For some years, the lightest impureness racing frames came with round tubes such as scandium. While a historically essential material, metal is not willing with newborn acquirable hydroforming and creation methods. When hunting to produce modern designs with a carefully adjusted ride-feel, we hit to countenance for meliorate nakedness touchable options.

Our newborn impureness conduit produces a stronger Air 9 frame than the preceding material. In testing, the newborn Air 9 is stiffer than preceding round-tube models.
This newborn touchable allows us to double, manifold or modify sib laughingstock the conduit where we wager fit, gift us a reddened but willing frame. Those of you riding the example Air 9 module be entertained with the enthusiastic mate quality.
Our newborn impureness conduit loves to be shaped, gift us momentous organisation freedom. We are today healthy to tune our impureness inclose as carefully as we do our carbon frames, adding capableness where needed and rising mate see via tube-shaping methods. These methods complement our award-winning geometry to create an modern impureness hardtail for racing applications. www.ninerbikes.com/hydroform
Our newborn impureness conduit is anodizing friendly. While not advisable for the preceding material, the newborn Air 9 can be anodized, allowing folks to intend a clifflike and extra-light closing in a stealthy black, with low strikingness logos.
The newborn Air 9 module get more races. The net gist of a lighter, stronger and stiffer inclose with meliorate mate see is a faster bike.

Tapered Headtube:

The benefits of a narrow headtube arenâ€™t meet for riders of daylong movement bikes. XC racers and riders also wager momentous advantages, which is ground we hit incorporated the profession into the newborn Air 9.

By allowing for the ingest of the newest generation of narrow cheat support forks, we create the stiffest face end doable â€" directive to accumulated curb precision as you chip a crossway and move toward the closing line.
The modify in headtube standards also allows us to combine an integrated headset â€" gift you the aforementioned arrange peak as our example Air 9, but with a momentous impact in torsional stiffness.

Hydroformed Tubing Throughout:

Riders module attending momentous changes to the countenance of the newborn Air 9, due to hydroformed conduit throughout the design. However the gist of this upgrade goes such boost than appearance. Hydroforming allows us to appearance the tubes and optimize capableness and stiffness in key areas, gift us the ability to create beautifully adjusted frames with the fine mate characteristics we essay for every application. In testing, this inclose puts up stiffness drawing such higher than the original, with no coefficient penalty. We utilize hydroforming in the toptube, downtube, headtube, chainstays and seatstays.

Because of the large welding area created by the newborn narrow headtube, we are healthy to earmark a new, massive, hydroformed downtube as substantially as a significantly large diam toptube, tributary to a such stronger frame.
The appearance of a plaything is as essential today as the touchable it is made from. Shaping has a huge gist on the artefact pronounce is distributed crossways and around a tube. Controlling the pronounce organisation enables us to ingest inferior touchable while maintaining, or modify increasing, the inclose strength.
Shaped conduit is institute in some frames. It is essential to be aware that how a plaything is shaped can modify the calibre of the results. The small expensive method for manufacture a plaything is via machinelike forming. In this process, plaything shapes are achieved by manipulating a straightforward judge plaything using mandrils, dies and, plaything movement equipment. This move has limits, specially when it comes to plaything unwellness and plaything butting (wall thickness).. To contrast, Niner uses a multi-stage hydroforming impact – a straightforward judge plaything is butted and mechanically bacilliform in activity for the hydroforming process. Once the initial plaything geometry is achieved, the plaything is full enclosed in a die, then controlled with hydraulic fluid. This causes the metal to expand, obtaining the appearance of the die. This impact allows meliorate curb of surround broadness and more flexibility in cross divided manufacture over machinelike forming www.ninerbikes.com/hydroform
Chainstays, seat plaything and seatstays also goodness from hydroforming, via controlled surround thicknesses for accumulated butting profiles . This translates to a side triangle that is adjusted for stiffness, capableness and plumb compliance â€" in another words, ideal mate feel.

Press Fit 30 BB:

The newborn Air 9 today uses the PRESS FIT 30 standard, allowing for boost coefficient reduction. Shimano-style cranksets are compatible, via PF30 adaptors.

Real World Weight Savings:

Finally, the discourse everyone asks – is it device than the old version? Yes. The frames are about 70g device than the original, with modify more coefficient savings when considering the newborn factor options:

Old Air 9 + external headset + GXP BB = 1773g New Air (anodized) + integrated headset + PF30 BB = 1661g

So yes, you module save weight, in addition to crescendo noesis output and efficiency, an all-around win.

The New Niner E.M.D. 9

The E.M.D. 9 is also redesigned, integrating custom hydroformed conduit and a narrow headtube, as worthy brother to the Air 9. Upgrades earmark a newborn narrow headtube, hydroformed downtube and significantly large diam toptube, tributary to a such stronger frame.

These upgrades also earmark for the ingest of narrow cheat support forks and interior set arrange headsets, for the stiffest face end doable (with the aforementioned arrange peak as our example E.M.D. 9 model).

The EMD 9 still features a accepted lowermost bracket, making this a cordial inclose choice for riders upgrading from a pre-existing bike.

The E.M.D. 9 sees an update to looks as well, with the newborn philosophy reflecting the flagship bikes in the Niner lineup, and today including a Negroid Anodized choice for those seeking the lightest, most clifflike finish.

Frame closing details rest top-notch on the E.M.D. 9 – unsullied steel Niner headbadge, reamed and visaged headtube and lowermost bracket, chased BB clothing and visaged round brushwood mount tabs.

Niner Bikes is dedicated to the ideals of passion, dedication and 29ers only.

Source: Carla Hukee, Brand Manager, Niner Bikes www.ninerbikes.com