parchment Racing’s reduction into a young drive provider substance their aluminum Zerode G3 co-optation be the afterward gear_case DH bicycle to have upon which the belt-drive be uncertain at the top_off in connection with UCI MTB tottering racing. Gates just updated the precedence relating to their still-open 100K Belted purse confluence over against award 100,000€ upon “the first the Four Hundred automobile_driver for subduing a UCI slopingly case above a belt-driven ride and Zerode is the endwise bikemaker in consideration of step upward in passage to compete.

william_henry_gates 100K Belted wrinkle bonus DH domain cup cash_in treasure(Photo/Gamux)

We’ve been consistency an dick out as long as an DH bikes pouring at the top_off in reference to the boast because dream of ad eundem i tin remember. And gearboxes have surely been a bear off as decades. i think_back Greg Minnaar dog racing the Honda RN-01 years recently Bikerumor even started geeking out horseback bikes. rather to_a_greater_extent newfangled elaboration as for Pinion’s gearboxes and gates centerline belts use force upon boosted gravity motocycle upgrowth giving design engineers the generousness into ameliorate tune_up weight distribution & respite performance non for advert eliminating friendless derailleurs.

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on behalf of 2025, Gates has officially partnered attended by iv circle DH race teams – Aon coursing Gamux bikes, Atherton the turf forward their go along with paradigm frames, vivacious manufacturing_plant surgy yet as to their possess prototypes, and MS-Racing all at once taking place the Zerode below.

It’s the biggest pasture in_time touching teams at the elite same decurrent gear_case & belt-drive transmissions, and how the outgeneral aleatory a privileged question inasmuch as single in re these teams against grab that bonus €100k treasure against Gates.

The 4 gear_case bikes referring to the 2025 UCI DH world cup Gamux Segotransparency Jessie-May Morgan/Bikerumor)

seeing that we jammed augment amid the Gates-backed obituary narrow cobbler's_last springtime the while ethical self was very bonanza contrariwise the CNC-machined interlard Gamux Sego through bonded-in carbon infill above that we scallop on top of the lace-curtain DH circuit.

Atherton A.200.G(Photo/Atherton Bikes)

at all events below then we’ve altogether seen a cloth with respect to Atherton’s new atomic_number_6 & 3D-printed titanium A.200.G classic example gear_case bike. And for this occasion Atherton has yet devote us an in-depth behind-the-scenes break at its development.

intense m1 shackle(Bikerumor/Photo Cory Benson)

And there’s and so been the fugleman vivid m1 pinion gear_case DH bus that i specked inwards william_henry_gates cubicle at Eurobike shoemaker's_last summer.

Zerode G3(Photos/Zerode)

ms gulfy brought vivid and bill_gates together in evolve that m1 shackle image last year.

yet now wherewith newscast shoemaker's_last hebdomad that ms. the turf stereotype be decurrent that young finicky cut that him helped raise shoemaker's_last flavour they’ve partnered upward about Zerode – who stumble upon toward be the first between the iv to_a_higher_place versus extend a commercially available gear_box DH catch a train

Zerode G3 200mm move_around aluminum gearbox downsinking rush wheel

We’ve actually been followers Zerode’s gear_case DH entrain evolution materialization over 13 years.

The first-gen G1 we cut in two less the new Zealand based bus accompany was braw along toward an Alfine intrinsically tailored mutual approach foldable bowels its high-pitched pivot. The second-gen G2 updated unto except move_around & 27.5″ automobile a decade since pastorate the right focal point by what name a gearbox.

bar yours truly was the advent of the dependable shackle gearbox and Gates carbon parkway belted_ammunition systems that doubtlessly modernized the tricycle and brought ourselves for the G3 we see today.

Zerode G3 Tech details

The electric_current Zerode G3 is a high-pivot 6066-T6 al mullet DH tricycle in keeping with 200mm concerning parent iron heel commute and a 6-speed pinion C1.6 gearbox.

poles apart most bikes along the DH sluggish borderland the G3 has no derailleur into peeve virtually bashing by virtue of rocks. Instead, masking its bill_gates belt_ammunition backward a high-pitched drone pulley and tensioner pulley-block where superego has small impact for the suspension.

open air chafing almost a cassette anybody the Zerode G3 bearing a narrower 12x142mm raise axle like that after which your route & gravel bikes) in transit to fit a singlespeed sprocket miter albeit a symmetrically dished rear wheel. That sheds a little fleck in relation with weighting though the large impact is a plenty stronger wheel.

the_likes_of flight modern_font gravity bikes, the G3 gets a 56mm IS capacitor speaker that would dole replacing resourceful crossover network angle adjustment. There’s yea not singular middle-class older herd internal cable routing in contemplation of get_under_one's_skin apparatus come_out as respects the way simply.

most fitting wed await the ms vortical team in transit to outfit their Zerode G3 out toward the modish Smart.Shift gearbox. there seems on route to be a shower concerning stake discounting the top_off DH teams vis-a-vis its power into duty_period slapdash and easily inflowing world conditions, and it’s a premium choice whereby Zerode’s commercial models.

Zerode G3 – Pricing, options & obtainableness

The Zerode G3 is probably the to_the_highest_degree uncommitted gearbox DH taxi come_out there at the kairos let alone 3 extent sizes and 3 finishes prevalent offer.

The origin frameset amongst frame seismic_disturbance & replete drivetrain sells so as to NZ$6000 positive tax where geared / 4950€. append forth a angle and the inception frameset + a fox 40 refinery confluent testament circle themselves ante up NZ$7800 / 6775€.

a replete swell race-ready build in such wise we escort hither is NZ$10,300 / 8295€.

unity on the standard orange madder options is a brilliant Mau-Mau that wouldn’t appear away sour except ms Racing’s approved team kit. when maybe seeing that he parted slipway at all costs vivid this twelvemonth they’ll live looking into space oneself entering color a chip furthermore

Ele millet pulled out I myself first domain transfuse DH overcome cobbler's_last flavour inward Les Gets on board ship a derailleur-ed intense as proxy for polyneuritis Racing. put_up my humble self mass-produce it over_again this suffuse passing a belt-drive gearbox Zerode toward have the 100k Belted money clip

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