New Felt Trailshot Arrives in UK

“Just into the warehouse and ready for new homes” reckons Ross, our inside man at UK Felt Bikes importers Saddleback. Here’s what he has to say about the “designed for the UK” bike…

“I have had a proto frame since the summer ’09, and have put a lot of miles on it and ridden right across the winter. Can’t wait for the spring! The bikes that have just landed have had a couple refinements over the proto, and are ready to hit the UK soil. I am bang on 6ft and the 17.5” frame gives easily enough leg extension to ride out to the trails, and easily enough clearance to shimmy the bike through Bristol’s finest Singletrack© and Wales’ techy-ist trails. The bike has been with me to the majority of Welsh trail centres and on many classic rides, and to a lot of the South West’s BMX tracks and hidden pump tracks. I could not be more happy with the bike and the people I have met out riding, who managed to blag a ride on the bike, have all been equally as impressed.”

We love a good 'Here's one I just built' warehouse shot... And they say it's all work there?

Marketing schpiel…

“From your local single track blast, to trail centre red runs, the Trail Shot gives you all the confidence you need for innovative lines, bold moves and sustained flow. Whether you’re aiming to clean a section first time, or do your share of the next 12 hour race, the purpose-built Hydroformed 6061 aluminium frame, Rockshox 2010 Recon Solo Air fork and SRAM drive train give you the performance and confidence to up your game.”

And here's one that someone else shot in a studio earlier...

More details here: Felt Bikes

Chipps Chippendale

Singletrackworld's Editor At Large

With 23 years as Editor of Singletrack World Magazine, Chipps is the longest-running mountain bike magazine editor in the world. He started in the bike trade in 1990 and became a full time mountain bike journalist at the start of 1994. Over the last 30 years as a bike writer and photographer, he has seen mountain bike culture flourish, strengthen and diversify and bike technology go from rigid steel frames to fully suspended carbon fibre (and sometimes back to rigid steel as well.)

Comments (14)

jamesjames February 24, 2010 at 4:37 pm

I think its the saddles that always make felts look a bit wierd. They look overly long
I’m not sure I’d want to ride a 12hour race on something with as beefy aluminium tubes as that either

jagairejagaire February 24, 2010 at 6:31 pm

nice looking bike; looks solid.

thomthumbthomthumb February 24, 2010 at 10:30 pm

is it a case of ‘if you have to ask, you can’t afford’?

grimtechgrimtech February 25, 2010 at 12:34 am

The pricing, geomatry and spec sheet is all in the link below:

http://www.feltbicycles.com/United-Kingdom/2010-Product-Catalog/Mountain/TRAIL-SHOT-Series/Trail-Shot.aspx

acorlettacorlett February 25, 2010 at 10:30 am

Looks nice. My experience of Felts has been that they have mentally steep front ends, but this looks a little slacker…

FuzzyfeltFuzzyfelt February 25, 2010 at 11:00 am

Hey Ross – looks like I’d struggle to break one of these! But if you’d like me to have a go…. That Virtue 2 frame is going well, so thanks for that – martin

crashvictimcrashvictim February 25, 2010 at 7:38 pm

I have had the good fortune of riding the proto in a few places and have to say it does what it says on the tin, Bristol single track stuff was a blast and Welsh trail centre riding it felt at home, the sort of bike that makes you want to try that last section harder and faster, If I had some spare cash I would go for one.

Paul@RTWPaul@RTW February 25, 2010 at 8:07 pm

It’s dual with a bash ring but what size rings? Looks like a big jump. 24/40 may be?

grimtechgrimtech February 26, 2010 at 1:51 am

@Acorlett, Its a 69^ head angle.

@Paul@RTW , its a 24/36 combo upfront

Paul@RTWPaul@RTW February 26, 2010 at 1:25 pm

Oh, ok. Looks bigger then that in the photos, that’s all.

Benji HaworthBenji Haworth February 26, 2010 at 2:16 pm

Grimtech – is 69 degrees static or when sagged?