Second the congrats to Marcelo - You still rock young fella and I hope to see you stepping out at some more WC this year!

I am interested to know if we are going to see these bikes available outside of the UK and Europe?

Not that I am siding with either of you - but La Bresse only ranked 4th according to the teams.. http://www.imtto.com/news.php - but Schladming was 5th...

yeah - but this time c'dale at least got someone else to build the complicated part - the shock :) I am going to hold judgment on these. I want to hear some tests first before considering, and it is a bit strange that no-one seems to have been given a bike yet for a long test...

I don't disagree with you, Mike, but the claims of some of the big boys that they have 'created' a 'ground breaking new design' every time they simply tweak something already out there has to be seen for what it is - big heaps of marketing bull shit! (and I am guilty as charged - I've shoveled it). The full floater has been around for years (see float link by fusion) so nothing new there - so why call it new?

Bugger the bike - I am more impressed that Jeremy got that fat prick Liam out racing for a whole season!

Gabe truly is one of the best blokes in the sport's business end. He helped me out more than once when we were not riding his bikes (regardless of where he was) and Devinci have scored a real asset in bringing him on. Good luck to both of them!

Sorry, Shred, but that is not really what happened. The Trek really is just a collection of other peoples ideas. DW's split pivot, Bodo Proobst direct shock connections... I respect Jose G a whole bunch, but saying they invented any of that is not being completely honest.

Where is the massive amounts of hype, Tim (madm3c)? Devinci are showing at interbike, so have organised PB to visit and post - not hype just good marketing sense. They have a well know designer so they've used him. They have created a slick advert because they are not a backyard operation and with this bike they can sell into the US without patent infringements. Again, just good sense. I am sure if you had the cash you'd do the same for the Akuma (after of course redesigning it, so people would buy it :). Massive hype would mean girls in bikini's, a big truck, WC team, and endless stories about the riders telling us how they just stubbed a toenail or trained for a day... (I am looking in your direction, Trek) Yep - it is a single pivot - but fuck, Tim, you of all people know that that is like saying a bike is a four bar - there are good four bar and shit four bar.

Shred - I think you need to check the 'using Trek elements' you have blurted out twice. DW actually created the Split pivot before the ABP - no matter how much spin Trek puts on it. Yes this is just a single pivot - but unless you are an absolute numpty you'll know that that is about as insightful as saying is a bike. I have ridden dozens of single pivots and each is different. IS it ground breaking - maybe not, but until you've thrown a leg over it your opinion just sounds ill-informed and a bit like bleating sheep...

So Commencal have a new prototype... and it is a Fusion Terminator..? If Commencal can make them so they don't break they'd rock!