Race Face Turbine Review

Race Face Turbine primed for assembly

With the “Turbine” sort name, Race Face resurrected a distinction of beautifully color-anodized metal components. This distinction includes essentially every the parts a complete metal and carbon organisation class that meet happens to be focused on cycle components would be due to concoct and is described on the Race Face website so I won’t regurgitate. This analyse profiles the Turbine stem, seatpost, handlebar, cranks and lowermost bracket.

Resurrection

It’s pertinent to toss text like “resurrection” around when conversation most Race Face. The consort abruptly closed its doors early this assemblage without whatever signs of warning, for reasons documented in this particularly well-written article. This was a damper to industry insiders, to the bike-buying open and nearly every Race Face employees, whatever of whom were cut adrift with complimentary consequence and unreimbursed expenses. Fortunately, Race Face was saved from the brink, employees rehired, creation resumed and components (including the Turbine group) rolled out.

North Vancouver, BC

Even before this happened, the Turbine assemble had been assembling whatever buzz, what with its beautifully finished, lustrous “bad-ass black” ultimate refinement hearkening back to the good-old-days that geriatric mountain-bikers fondly recall. Many riders (I am one) strength recollect lusting after the prototypal Turbine LP cranks – ooooh red, CNCed so bling. This aforementioned concupiscence haw arise when looking at the newborn Turbine group.

New Turbine, older Turbine (LP)

At this saucer it’ll also be pertinent to disclose that I’m digit of those riders who is hopelessly biased in tendency of the countenance of Race Face’s components. However, beauty is in the receptor of the beholder so you will have to figure discover your individualized concupiscence factor. In my prejudiced opinion, modify if the Turbine artefact weren’t also grrrrr I’m going to bout your pants soured sexy, objectively they’re a worthwhile kindness for an AM/XC cycle as they’re functional, crafted and brawny sufficiency for intended purpose.

Whistler (Picture by Toby Salin)

Final Resurrection

This leads to the disturbing epiphany that in choosing ultimate components (stem, handlebar, cranks, BB, post) decisions are mostly most looks. They’re ultimate and meant to be so. Assessments of action is essentially binary; either they impact or they don’t impact (if they don’t impact hopefully the component doesn’t catastrophically fail). So this is as much a feature as a review.

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