2016 Niner AIR 9 1-Star Deore

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About this bike

Because the racing bug doesn’t choose who it bites, Niner offers the AIR 9. With World Cup-tested mountain bike race geometry and lightweight hydroformed aluminum, this privateer-priced bike has the design to win. Hydroforming allows Niner to control the shape of the tubes and wall thickness to optimize strength and stiffness in key areas. The rigid sides of their signature down tube and top tube shapes maximize torsional stiffness, with a buttery smooth ride quality achieved via the flat sections on each tube, which act like leaf springs. A PressFit 30 bottom bracket and 142 x 12mm thru-axle complement and magnify this efficiency, ensuring lightweight stiffness where power might otherwise be lost to frame flex. The AIR 9 1-Star build gives you everything you need to get out and ride with no extra frills. A RockShox Reba RL Solo Air fork keeps the entire bike lightweight, while quietly delivering 120mm of speed-carrying travel, so you can focus on going faster and hitting your line, not holding on for dear life. A never-say-die Shimano Deore drivetrain and hydraulic disc brake set provide the power to leave your competitors in the dust and the subtle control to push as hard as the course allows. And you can push pretty hard, because your Maxxis Ikon tires Roll fast and bite hard through loose corners.

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