Continuation of my original post sometime ago.

Siiiick.

Does it ride as good as it looks?

Nicolai bikes are bad ass, always enjoyed the alternate shifting location they played with...

My SantaFe wishes it looked that cool

Pinkbike tested one.

That's cool AF dude. Got any details or ride impressions?

Love it so far!

Been on four rides.

Not the most efficient climber in the world, but either am I so it doesn't matter to me. It's also a heavy, big bike so my exceptions as far as climbing are concerned weren't high. But it does what I need it to do. Now going down is a different story, it's amazing. I'd say so far I feel it performs better than my prior DH bike, another Nicolai Ion 20. I think I can credit that to the high pivot design, the thing just eats when going down at speed. In slow areas it's not the most nimble, but I'm also running a duel 29'er set up on it right now. Will probalby swap to a mullet configuration next wheel build.

One of my favorite things is the absolute silence it provides, well beyond the I9 hub. Awesome bike, shifting workings as one would expect and just a great all around bike. Not that I broke a ton of rear mechs in the recent years but not having it hang down there is pretty dang cool.

That thing is wild, personally I've smashed a ton of derailleurs, so Im always interested in attempts to get around them on mtb's. I had a Pinion bike for a few years, and it was nice to have a silent drivetrain and to never have to replace a rear derailleur, though it had it's own issues.

Cool bike