New Bike - Intense Carbine 275

[AB]

I've decided the path to fitness is with a bike! So incoming is this...

I'm quite excited!

XTR Throughout running 10 speed

Enve AM Carbon Wheels On Chris King Pro Hubs

Koshima Fox Front and Rear Shocks

Hope Tech 4 Brakes

Enve Carbon Bars

Rockshox Reverb Dropper Post

Answer Stem

Weighs 27lb



















Better get a helmet.

[Scoobyshue]

Wow - that's had some money spent on it in the past.

Fellow Intense rider here. Primer 275. Love it....although crashed it at the weekend resulting in a buckled wheel and snapped spoke.

[AB]

I'm told it was a £10k+ build and the wheels were £3k alone? I don't know whether that's true or not but I'm looking forward to riding it!

[Pablo16v]

That's really nice. Almost bought a Carbine myself a few years back when a pal was an Intense stockist, but stuck with my Nicolai.

You could actually buy those ENVE AM stickers separately so quite a few Chinese carbon rims ended up with them stuck on, but with King hubs there's every chance they are originals.

[P-Jay]

Nice, I had a Tracer 275 from about the same era, great bike.

[Fluffsri]

That's my local area to ride, nice bike as well

[Hugo Stiglitz]

That's a 2016 bike?

Takes me back

[AB]

I’ve no idea 😂

[Hugo Stiglitz]

AB said:

I’ve no idea ??

Ah. How much did you, erm pay?

[AB]

Hugo Stiglitz said:

AB said:

I’ve no idea ??

Ah. How much did you, erm pay?

£2.7k...

[P-Jay]

AB said:

I’ve no idea ??

It'll be a 2013 or 2014, Intense didn't really do yearly model changes back then, I don't think they do now either.

The good news is that, about 2017ish Bike brands went on a bit of game of one-upmanship on who could make the most LLS (low, long, slack) bike, but have stopped that now and are making bikes that work better for more people. In some ways, it might be more on trend that bikes from a few years ago.

[AB]

Wasn't particularly bothered about being 'on-trend' - just wanted an interesting bike to try and burn some calories that was pretty light.