The Moose410 is a specialist mountain bike frame, designed from the rubber up to 'go it large'. A full 16 (yes sixTEEN) inches of travel make this the longest travel useable frame ever designed. Designed around the Avalanche 3.5" stroke custom built shock, which comes valve’d for each individual rider, the Moose410 offers an unsurpassed amount of travel, with the control that only an Avalanche shock can provide.
With 55mm diameter top and down tubes, and a massive 4.5mm wall thickness throughout the length, combined with the enclosed head tube result in a massively stiff front triangle. The webs supporting the top tube are 5mm thick, and milled out to save some weight
Widely spaced linkage plates result in stiff pivots by design, add to that the PTFE bushes to increase lateral rigidity, and the oversized fully sealed cartridge bearings with the 10mm thick plates to remove as much flex as possible, without adding monstrous amounts of weight. The width of the pivots necessitate a 100mm width BB, however these are now relatively widely available.
A robust 3bolt 20mm x 150mm wide rear triangle means no slop when big hits try to force the rear wheel in directions it doesn’t want to go. Massive machined yokes on both pivots and gobs of mud clearance mean that this frame can not only take the big hucks, but also the big hucks in terrible conditions. The rear axle path is has a highly rearward trajectory to give the frame as much time as possible to react to bumps, this also means that on the big hits the wheel-base extends resulting in a less twitchy landing.
Designed around the Marzocchi Super Monster T, the frame has a perfectly standard head angle of 66°, this results in better handling than many other 'huck' frames. This angle slackens upon hard landings due to the 4" difference in travel, also giving a more stable landing.
A top tube length of 550mm (21.5") mean this frame is in no way 'monkey only' territory. Due to the extreme length of travel a stand over height of 39" means that leggy people are best suited for sitting on this frame when stationary, but who will right? Besides, a BB-Top tube distance of a mere 14" make this frame as low as possible at the rear, to aid cornering ability (huh? what are they?) and mean that even short people can pedal this frame, the will just have to jump off when they stop!
A super slack 53° seat tube mean very little. After all, what is the seat there for when hucking? A bit of padding for 'the Vitals' in case it all goes wrong. A super short 31.6mm seat post is recommended, it is important that the seat post does not protrude and allow clashing with the top yoke when the frame is bottomed out.
All bearings sit on easily replaceable steel inserts, with massive 17mm bore by 30mm OD bearings on all pivots result in a very high load rating, and remove any possible chance of bending or snapping pivot bolts ever again! That said, just to be safe 12.9 M8 bolts are used on all pivots, Loc-Tite (tm) is mandatory!
How much does this beast weigh? Does it matter? Well, its arguable if it does or not, but its 17lbs for the frame WITH the avalanche shock and steel spring.
A animation of the frame working can be found here
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