The discharge of those 2 new Pinarello Dogma XC mountain bikes has been teased for longer than it took to develop them. And that’s perhaps the wildest a part of the story of how a relative newcomer to the mountain bike scene turned out 2 World Championship-winning XC bikes within the span of lower than a 12 months.
However now, after teasing us final spring and summer season, the Pinarello Dogma XC mountain bikes are prepared for shoppers.
And you may choose up both the travel-adjustable full-suspension or the wildly uneven hardtail, every in two totally different carbon layups and requisite performance-focused construct kits…
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2024 Pinarello Dogma XC full-suspension & hardtail MTB
Pinarello are again within the MTB scene with the official rollout of two all-new XC race bikes. Certain, It’s true that everyone knows the enduring Italian bike maker for highway bikes, however they’ve additionally had a mountain bike line on and off in current many years. However these Dogma XC bikes are nothing just like the informal Pinarello mountain bikes of years previous.
Two all-new off-road race bikes developed intently with Tom Pidcock and Pauline Ferrand-Prévot. Two all-new bikes which have every already been ridden to World Championship titles. All much less that 10 months after the entire Pinarello Dogma XC mountain bike growth venture started.
All-new full-suspension Dogma XC
The primary one we laid eyes on was Pidcock’s full-suspension bike. Raced and gained in its first World Cup outing in Nové Město, Czechia final Could. He adopted that up three months later with an XCO World Championship win on the identical bike.
That bike is now made official because the Pinarello Dogma XC.
All-new hardtail Dogma XC Laborious Tail, too!
The following one we noticed was Ferrand-Prévot’s hardtail which turned up in Peebles, Scotland in August. And she or he proceeds to win two UCI World Championship titles within the bike’s first race outing – each Elite Girls’s XCC & XCO.
That second bike is now made official because the Pinarello Dogma XC Laborious Tail.
Ten months begin to end. Pinarello turned a spark of an thought into 2 World Championship-winning bikes in a single season.
(Extra on that story with my First Rides Overview!)
OK, again to the bikes you should buy!
Each new bikes can be found beginning right this moment for buy by way of your native Pinarello supplier. The INEOS workforce has a growth partnership with SR Suntour, in order that’s what the workforce is racing. However that suspension isn’t prepared but for shoppers, so you may get wonderful new FOX suspension within the meantime. Additionally they race on Shimano. However since there isn’t but a brand new XTR Di2 group, Pinarello figured they’d spec these business bikes with the most recent SRAM AXS T-Sort Transmissions. Fortunately (in my private opinion and the minds of Pinarello), the bikes get spec’d with the best-performing Shimano brakes as a substitute.
2024 Pinarello Dogma XC & XC full-suspension bikes
In brief, the Pinarello Dogma XC is the full-suspension choice, with 90mm of single-pivot rear journey paired to a 100mm fork.
Nevertheless it encompasses a movable machined aluminum entrance shock mount that allows you to optionally swap in an extended stroke shock paired to an extended for to get 100mm out again and 120mm up font with the very same geometry.
Tech particulars
Kinematics-wise, you get a roughly 100% anti-squat with a flat curve and a leverage ratio round 2:1 for a “easy but progressive” suspension setup. The linkage-driven flex-stay single pivot rotates on bearings on the principal pivot and bushings all over the place else.
Key options of the full-suspension bike embrace the additional triangle above the underside bracket to dramatically enhance drivetrain stiffness, and stiffness on the body’s principal pivot. It additionally follows Pinarello’s idea of uneven design to deal with the uneven forces exerted on a motorcycle evaluating driveside vs. braking forces.
Much less apparent, however the rear finish of the Dogma XC consists of two fully separate triangles. Not chainstay or seatstay bridges to attach them. However… hidden contained in the outsized principal pivot, the edges are joined with a Hirth joint. An outsized aluminum half axle is molded into each halves of the rear triangle, and a toothed interface connects them again within the center to stiffen the 2 sides into one. The result’s stiffness such as you had a chainstay bridge, however with the flexibility to have ultra-short 427.5mm chainstays with 2.4″ tire clearance, and no mud shelf!
Built-in cockpits
Pinarello additionally offers each bikes a brand new one-piece built-in carbon MOST XC MTB cockpits to avoid wasting weight and enhance steering stiffness. With totally inside cable routing by way of the headset and an inside 60° steering cease.
It’s an enormous handlebar to take a look at. And we’ll depart it as much as the feedback part to debate inside cable routing on a mountain bike. However a pleasing shock no less than to me, Pinarello did a strong job of constructing it stiff in the proper instructions, with out it rattling your tooth (or wrists) when driving uneven trails!
Full-suspension specs & pricing
Pinarello makes the Dogma XC from their top-tier, lightest and stiffest Toray M40 J carbon fiber, accessible in 4 sizes (S-XL). All manufacturing in Italy, no less than for now. All full-suspension bikes & frames come arrange as 90mm of rear journey out of the field, and may later be prolonged with a unique rear shock. Full bikes all get 100mm forks.
The highest-tier Dogma XC is accessible in Pidcock’s rainbow and Olympic gold duplicate paint job or traditional carbon black and pink, for $13,000 / 13,000€. For that unworldly sum, you get a SRAM XX SL AXS groupset, XTR brakes, DT XRC 1200 wheels, and a FOX manufacturing facility suspension bundle together with the new reverse-arch 32 Step Forged fork. Full weight of simply 10.45kg.
Or choose up a Dogma XC frameset for $6000 / 6000€ together with the Fox Float SL shock. Frameset weight of 1750g, plus 252g for the shock.
The merely named Pinarello XC is similar bike out of the identical mould, however constituted of a barely much less stiff Toray T900 UD carbon fiber that provides lower than 100g extra to the extra reasonably priced body. It is available in black solely, and solely as an entire bike for $7900 / 7900€. At that worth you get Fox Efficiency Elite suspension, a SRAM GX AXS transmission, XT brakes, and alloy DT wheels. At a claimed weight of 11.3kg.
2024 Pinarello Dogma XC Laborious Tail & XC Laborious Tail hardtails
The Laborious Tail is a a lot less complicated design, however will seemingly make extra folks scratch their heads.
It additionally will get the identical distinctive backside bracket and decrease entrance triangle design to enhance stiffness. Nevertheless it takes the asymmetry design idea to new extremes. With dramatically totally different chainstay and seatstay layouts for the hardtail. Pinarello say this asymmetry addresses the forces in a body in a extra balanced method, main to higher vitality switch, improved traction, and elevated pace.
Just like the totally, it will get an built-in cockpit. And in addition is available in 4 inventory sizes (S-XL). What it doesn’t embrace is a dropper publish. The entire bikes are dropper appropriate, however the light-weight dropper that Pinarello needed to spec on the bike wasn’t accessible in manufacturing portions. (We expect that was this world’s lightest Vertical Helium dropper.) In order that they gave the hardtails a inflexible dropper, and left it as much as the customer to swap one in if they need.
Hardtail specs & pricing
Once more, the Pinarello Dogma XC Laborious Tail is constituted of top-tier, lighter and stiffer Toray M40 J carbon fiber. And designed for a 100mm journey fork.
The highest-tier Dogma XC Laborious Tail is accessible in Ferrand-Prévot’s rainbow duplicate paint (a bit much less gold) or carbon black/pink, for $11,200 / 11,000€ full. Once more eye-watering, you get virtually an equivalent spec. SRAM XX SL AXS, XTR brakes, DT XRC 1200 wheels, and FOX manufacturing facility suspension with the brand new 32 SC fork. Full hardtail weight of simply 9.2kg.
Or choose up a 960g Dogma XC Laborious Tail frameset for $4500 / 5000€.
And the merely named Pinarello XC Laborious Tail comes out of the identical mould, constituted of the marginally much less stiff Toray T900 UD carbon fiber that provides round 50g extra to the extra reasonably priced body. It is available in black solely as an entire bike for $6600 / 7000€. At that worth you get Fox Efficiency Elite suspension, SRAM GX AXS transmission, XT brakes, and alloy DT wheels for a claimed weight of 10.2kg.
First Rides on the Pinarello Dogma XC
Phrase from Pinarello is that till final week, solely two folks had really ridden these new Dogma XC bikes. Tom Pidcock and Pauline Ferrand-Prévot. Nicely, that was till I joined Pinarello’s growth workforce and INEOS MTB Coach Kurt Bogaerts for the primary take a look at rides on the brand new bikes in Italy. Along with about ten different journalists. I obtained in a few quick rides over various terrain on the top-spec full-suspension Pinarello Dogma XC. In its inventory quick 90/100mm journey setting. And I’ve to say… the bike pleasantly stunned me, at how a brand new XC bike from a highway bike model can really feel so fast whenever you put the facility down, but nonetheless really feel plush in such quick journey with out ever bottoming out.
Extra driving and growth particulars in a full first rides evaluate quickly!
