Hey everyone, welcome or welcome back!
So how do you know when you come across a special bike?
I mean if it's not a head badge like this, it's gonna be at least the color
and you should see this black in real life, is really breathtaking!
This is the one bike to rule them all, it's called The Peacemaker and it's made by Mullet Cycles,
a true boutique company that built this from the ground up to be
a mixed wheel-sized bike, 27.5 in the rear, 29er up front, let's check it out!
And even though I can't wait to ride this bike, before I get it dirty I thought I would cover the build.
The guys at Bikecomponents.ca did an amazing job
by speccing this bike with some of the nicest components that I've seen in 2021.
And I'm definitely going to start by saying that the frame itself it's super special, and I'm going to leave that for the end,
but what you're looking at here is a cockpit made out of PNW components.
You have the Loam grips and the PNW Loam 170 mm dropper post, I reviewed this on my site not too long ago.
You're looking at 31.8 mm bars that use a 50 mm stem.
Both the bars and the stem are called the Ranger version 3.
What's special about the stem is the accessories mount that can be removed,
but this allows you to install a GoPro right here in front of your bike.
Bars are cut to 780 mm long right now and they are providing a 30 mm rise.
On top of the lifetime warranty dropper, you're gonna find this Prologo saddle that is MTB specific, you see it how short it is.
And as a remote you're gonna get my preferred remote as of late, this is the MT500,
the Deore version of the Shimano remote that I would highly recommend.
Bike is specced with Shimano components throughout
and you can see this I-SPEC EV shifter attached to nothing else but the XTR brakes that I looked at not too long ago.
Cranks are XT also, 170 mm, you can see the XTR trail pedals (M9120).
Obviously this is not the Shimano chainring, it is an absoluteBLACK 32 tooth oval
and right next to it you're going to notice this, the XTR M9100 chain
that I recommended in many of my videos before.
Here in the back you have again a 10-51T XT cassette,
and coming down you have that SGS XT derailleur that is part of the XT groupset.
And it wasn't that visible from the other side, but the bottom bracket is a threaded BB,
this is a Shimano Saint BB80 I believe,
and yes the color matching here goes to the extreme as even the cups are gold!
And I mentioned the XTR brakes, these are not any brakes
but the 4-piston M9120s that I looked at not too long ago.
What's special about these is that they are used with XTR rotors as well,
you see the Ice Technologies FREEZA, you see this painted black portion of the XTR rotor.
These would be the MT900 Center Lock discs.
Same 180 mm rotor is used in the back and you can see that spacer needed here to elevate your 4-piston caliper for it.
And I mentioned the components being special on this bike.
Well if you look at the wheels, these are actually BERD wheels, not just the spokes.
The spokes have been in the news as of late because they're super special,
they're not made out of steel but they do get installed just like regular spokes.
You can see that 14 gauge nipple here at one end, at the other end they have a loop
and a tiny tiny rod, that's how they attach to just standard either J-bend or straight pull hubs.
But what's special about these BERD spokes is the fact that they reduce the wheelset weight by 100 to 200 grams,
and also they reduce vibration, apparently they're about 200 percent better at dampening vibrations coming from the wheel.
So I can't wait to see them in action!
These are laced on Industry Nine Hydra hubs.
This is a Boosted bike, so 110 mm front and 148 mm rear and this has a really high engagement point.
We're talking about 690 engagement points that would sound like this:
This specific model is the TR30, so 30 mm internal ID.
The wheelset comes up to under 1500 grams.
If you take a look at their other wheels that they have on their website they're pretty impressive weights.
Remember this is a 27.5 rear and a 29er front.
And of course, on such a bike build we could only have somewhat different tires.
We're looking at the Vitoria Agarro over here,
just perfect trail tires that are built with what's called Graphene 2.0.
This is a 29 x 2.35 that has a thread pattern that reminds me of the Maxxis Rekons.
Even though the rear tire is at 27.5, it's the same Agarro and is the same width, 27.5 x 2.35.
Actually Mullet Cycles recommends using the same type of tires in the same width front and rear,
for optimal performance of this bike.
And the perfect suspension up front for the bike is being provided by this FOX 36 Factory.
So Factory comes with Kashima coating, this is a FIT-4 damper fork, not the Grip 2,
you can see the 3 positions here, and the adjuster for the Open position.
If you go down at the bottom of the fork you're going to find your rebound adjuster
hidden right underneath this cover, here we go.
Fork is installed on this tapered head tube with the Cane Creek 40 headset.
This is the ZS type so you're gonna have to press the cups into the frame.
And a couple of things that are special about this fork,
first of all is this floating thru axle, that's what motorcycles have,
and also what you're going to find on motorcycles is this bleeder for the lowers,
just to make sure that you don't build up any pressure down here that would just destroy your small bump sensitivity.
This is a 2022 fork with that redesigned arch and you also have the bypass channels right here at the back of the lower leg.
And to go along with that short 44mm offset fork, we have an Ohlins shock
that is performing a lot of duties on this special frame.
That is because this is a single pivot frame and you can see that oversized main pivot over here.
It says Double Stack (DSSP) because you actually have 2 bearings in here, one radial and one needle bearing
that keep that rear end really nice and stiff.
And if you look carefully at it you're gonna see machined pieces like over here, you're gonna see tubes again connecting to other CNC machined parts
that are hollow here in the middle to save a little bit of weight.
And you're going to see this 160 mm post mound directly machined into the left side dropout.
What's up with the elevated chainstays?
Well, first of all you can install up to a 38T front chainring on this bike,
that with an up to a 3.0 tire so 27.5 x 3.0 and believe me,
you have a ton of clearance in here.
I love how the bottom of the seat tube is nice and straight so you are not going to have
any junk or mud accumulating here at the bottom.
And with that main pivot down here you have a straight seat tube that allows you a lot of dropper post insertion,
I would say that you have about 20 cm or 8 inches available to you here until you get to that cable port.
The main pivot is right here on top of your bottom bracket so you don't push into the shock.
The shock is fine tuned to work best with this frame.
This TTX air shock is the more expensive version that Mullet offers for the bike.
Shock is attached to the swing arm using needle bearings and yes, you do have this color matched with the bike and the fork.
And right next here you're gonna start to see this top tube that is hydroformed into these very interesting shapes.
You have a really neat weld here that attaches it to the head tube and to the down tube that's hydroformed,
you see the taper here coming down to the bottom bracket that has this box
where that main pivot and the threaded bottom bracket is.
What we're looking at in there is ISCG-5 tabs
and you can see a OneUp bash guard that's installed on two of those attachments.
As for cable routing, frame accepts internally routed dropper post but other than that
all the hoses and the cables are run externally, so yeah I guess shop mechanic rejoice!
With the dropper remote housing going right here right in the middle of your down tube
and the shifter and rear brake hoses being routed right here under the top tube.
The beauty of this is that these lines are pretty much straight from the handlebar
all the way to the back where they are needed.
So that allows you a smooth movement of that inner cable
or in case of the brake it just makes it easier to properly bleed your brakes.
And just like you expect from a modern bike, you do have room in the front triangle for a 600 ml bottle.
So what's special about this 150 mm bike aside from being an awesome build?
Well, The Peacemaker was designed from the ground up to be using a mixed wheelset,
so 27.5 in the back, 29er up front,
or as they say it's all business up front and it's all party in the back.
And that means that it has perfected geometry for the way the bike behaves.
That's supposed to give us not only amazing tire clearance in the back,
not only that it's built like a tank,
but it's supposed to corner better than a pure 29er and it's supposed to roll better than a 27.5.
And according to them everything is so customized that is not even worth comparing geometry numbers
between a bike like this and one of the bikes that you would find from the major manufacturers today.
So much so that they only provide the Reach numbers, this is a Medium providing 457 mm Reach.
As for the top tube, so seated pedaling position, this is 622 mm which would be perfect for me (5'10").
Other than that, like head tube angle, seat tube angle, bottom bracket height or even chainstay length,
none of that is provided, but that makes me even more curious to take this for a spin.
And I plan to do that in my next little video.
So what do you guys think about these awesome Mullet bikes?
Did I mention that they have more than one option for a head badge?
This is actually just one of the 3, called The Rooster.
Would you be interested in trying out one of these?
Would you be interested in building one of these aluminum amazing bikes?
Let me know what you think in the comments below.
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and keep an eye on my channel for the part 2 of this video
where I'm gonna take The Peacemaker to my local trails.
Cheers guys, cheers!