Bike Build: 2008 Intense M6 FRO
Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008
2008 Intense M6 FRO
Intense is long known for creating high performance downhill bikes. This year they introduced the M6 to replace the M3 as their flagship downhill machine. We built up one to test for ourselves and see how it performs. Inside you’ll find our bike build and later down the road we’ll have a full review.
Special thanks to:
- Chromag
- Competitive Cyclist
- Diverse Suspension Products
- e13 components
- Industry 9
- Intense Cycles
- Point ONE Racing
- Push Industries
- SDG
- Shimano
- Twenty6 Products
- VSI Products
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September 2nd, 2008 at 10:36 am
Oh holy mother of pearl!
Nice ride, didn’t know green link were an option.
Impressive weight numbers!
September 2nd, 2008 at 10:47 am
Thanks!
The Green links are custom done, they are not an option
September 2nd, 2008 at 5:57 pm
sweet build… just curious what’s the weight of that 11-28 shimano cassette? and what are the ratios?
September 2nd, 2008 at 5:59 pm
Incredible build, must be awesome fun riding this beast!
September 2nd, 2008 at 6:06 pm
Simon - The weight of the 11-28 cassette is in our Saint writeup (231g).
Gears:
11-12-13-14-16-18-21-24-28
September 3rd, 2008 at 10:14 am
Those Green links COULD be an option:) ask around:P
September 3rd, 2008 at 10:15 am
can you give some more details about the hydraulic spring perch? i am considering a ccdb and am worried about the rubbing issues.
September 3rd, 2008 at 1:45 pm
If you do have a rubbing issue (and have a ti spring) you can get a protective sleeve from cane creek to stop that. If you’re not running a ti spring, it shouldn’t rub.
The spring perch serves a different function, but it just worked out that it also relieved any spring rubbing in our case.
September 4th, 2008 at 11:27 am
i saw this bike at winter park it was stunning
September 4th, 2008 at 1:40 pm
what exact model of spring perch was used? I havent found one in the weight table.
This this is indeed pretty interesting, havent seen them used before
September 4th, 2008 at 4:35 pm
The spring perch is 56g. Its not on the weight table because the company don’t sell them for the mtb application specifically.
Yep we’ve had the bike a bunch of places, winter park was one of them! Good eye.