If you’re like me, and I know you are, you can’t get enough carbon fiber, especially on your XC mountain bike. I mean, just look a the pros vs. cons. Pros: Its lightweight and its shit doesn’t stink. Cons: Its brittle, fragile, its shit might stink, its ugly, fugly, and pug fugly.
Until now, we’ve had to get by with only 11 speed drivetrains and bamboo bikes at our disposal.
Wait for it…
Enter the Arantix from Delta 7 Sports:
Supposedly 10 times as strong as steel, this 2.75 lbs bike frame is only .61 lbs heavier than the Scott Scale LTD and only $4,995.95 more expensive!
The rods are composed of several hundred layers of carbon fiber, wrapped tightly with Kevlar cord and woven to form a long series of little pyramids. The rods crisscross to produce hundreds of brawny joints that add strength to the whole thing.
Thanks to Sparky for the heads-up and according to the Men’s Journal gear review article
(Sparky reads the Men’s Journal, get over it), 
only 50 Arantix frames will be put into production this year. They say, “broken struts on the frame can be repaired individually, so fixing a damaged Arantix is easier than other carbon fiber bikes.” No shit? My current mountain bike is damn near impossible to repair when the frame cracks in half. I mean, I have to get the welder out and so forth. With the Arantix, all I’ll need to do is repair individual struts every time it breaks.
Where do I route the cables? Oh yeah, anywhere’s fine!
Can you do this to your frame? If the answer is yes, your bike is too heavy!
Unlike Sparky, I frequent Bornrich.org, since I was born rich suckaz! And being that they are a far more credible source, I’ll believe them when they say in their review of the Arantix that in addition to being “possibly bulletproof” (which will come in handy out at OCNP some day, right, right?), “only 200 of these frames will be put into production in 2008.”
But I’m sorry guys, whether 50 or 200 are produced, it’ll only be available in a hardtail.
Reserve yours today!
xoxo,
Johnny
PS. Delta7′s site confirms that 200 will be put into production. What is the Men’s Journal trying to hide? I dunno, but please click here to order me a gift subscription!
