Now we have Religion within the youth to hold on the traditions, stewardship, and love of driving bikes. Big Bicycles is renewing that Religion with an all-new, up to date youth mountain bike. It’s a renewal, because the Big Religion isn’t a brand new line, nevertheless it’s reimagined for a brand new era of youngsters who wish to have enjoyable and shred.
The Big Religion is particularly for growing younger riders. The brand new vary options purpose-built (youth-friendly) suspension, up to date geometry, and elements for smaller, lighter our bodies.
A Return of Religion
The brand new Religion vary is the primary of its variety from Big. It’s a set of high-performance, full-suspension path bikes which can be on par with grownup mountain bikes. The distinction is that they’re particularly dialed for youth use and dimensions—proper all the way down to the dropper seatpost.
The up to date Big Religion line begins with an aluminum body with youth-specific geometry. The up to date geometry expertly matches Giants’ all-new proprietary suspension setups, WheelSystems, and ergonomic touchpoints for smaller our bodies.
The small bike packs quite a lot of cool tech, so let’s begin on the base.
Big ALUXX SL Frameset
Let’s begin with the body. The Religion’s canvas is a high-performance ALUXX SL aluminum frameset with youth-specific path geometry. Weight is an enormous a part of the image right here, and Big desires to maintain the Religion as slim and modern as potential.
The body boasts options like inside cable routing, dropper submit compatibility, and a tapered headtube. Its building appears to be like very beefy and on par with some critical alloy path bikes. The graphics are cool and understated, with a little bit of skate type combined in. Plus, there’s numerous clean area for stickers, and in case your youngsters are like mine… the extra, the higher.
TRA WheelSystems
Subsequent up is the wheelset, and that, too, is youth-focused. Big’s new youth-specific TRA WheelSystems borrows important tech from the grownup TRA WheelSystem, together with good trendy broad rims, performance-level hubs, and additional thought put into the longevity of the construct.
The edges are barely overbuilt, with 5mm rim partitions that hopefully will hold these kiddos dent-free for some time. The rear wheel boasts a 72-tooth freehub, higher than some grownup mountain bikes. The hubs are simply serviceable, like most Big TRA hubs, and may final.
Suspension Tuned for Younger Riders
How a younger rider sees the path differs considerably from how a 6-foot-tall grownup blasts via the one monitor. Their bikes ought to be capable of sort out these distinctive calls for and take a look at to not hinder their driving development. Big feels one of the best ways to beat that is variable wheel sizes and suspension tuned particularly for youths.
The Big Religion makes use of the Big FlexPoint rear suspension system with a Crest FloTrac Lite shock. New Crest Lite suspension forks with FloTune Lite dampers assist youngsters sort out technical terrain with extra confidence and management.
Two Distinct Big Religion Fashions
The brand new Big Religion vary consists of two fashions. The Big Religion includes a new Big TRA WheelSystem with a 27.5-inch entrance wheel and 26-inch rear. The wheels borrow important options and applied sciences from race-proven grownup TRA WheelSystems, together with WideGuard expertise, to enhance rim power and scale back the danger of flats. The smaller Religion 24 has 24-inch TRA wheels entrance and rear for lighter weight and simpler dealing with.
All Religion fashions have youth-specific cranks, brake levers, and new Contact Change AT Lite dropper seat posts. The Contact Change AT Lite dropper has a lighter motion and requires much less drive/weight to provoke the drop, making it a lot simpler for youths to make use of. The grips and levers are additionally youth-focused, with a smaller diameter grip and easier-to-access levers.
Tremendous Lively FlexPoint Rear Suspension
Each Religion fashions characteristic FlexPoint rear suspension programs with a Crest FloTrac Lite shock. This linkage-driven, single-pivot system creates constant damping and spring efficiency all through the journey. Like bigger Big bikes, it isolates the rear shock to supply small bump sensitivity via the complete wheel path.
Youngsters could or could not discover all of the refined nuances of the tech, however they’ll certain really feel if it’s clean. My son describes it as having a “magic carpet really feel.” The above result’s a clean, energetic really feel via the shock stroke with no harsh bottom-outs.
Crest FloTrac Lite-Shock
The Crest FloTrac Lite-Shock is designed and constructed in-house to enhance Big’s suspension platform kinematics for light-weight riders. It receives {custom} tuning for much less drive enter and light-weight motion.
Paired with Giants Triple Stream Path expertise that stabilizes the shock’s movement when energetic, Crest FloTrac Lite provides smaller riders elevated traction and management whereas descending or climbing. The Crest TR Elite Lite and Crest SL FloTune Lite forks are custom-tuned for mild riders. The design boasts low-friction motion and the newest Big FloTune Lite damper.
As well as, all Religion fashions characteristic Unified Suspension Setup, a information displayed on the forks indicating optimum air stress, and damper setting suggestions for each the rear shock and the fork based mostly on rider weight.
135mm or 130mm of Actual Journey
The Religion collection has 135mm of rear Journey, with a 140mm Crest SL FloTune Lite fork, which is explicitly tuned for riders weighing below 62kg. The Religion 24 collection has 130mm of rear Journey and is paired with a 140mm Crest TR Elite Lite Fork, which can also be explicitly tuned for riders weighing below 46kg.
Spec’d to Climb and Descend
Taking place the hills is enjoyable, however going up is OK, too, when you have the proper gears. Both Religion mannequin comes with Microshift Creation X G-Sequence-10-speed, an 11×48 cassette paired with a 30T entrance chain ring. The crankset is a brief 155mm (or 140mm on the 24″ mannequin), hoping to restrict pedal strikes and foster a stability of cadence and energy.
There isn’t a entrance derailleur, however there’s a very beefy Big chain information. Paired with the Creation X G-Sequence derailleur equals zero dropped chains.
Tire-wise, the Religion will get critical, arriving with Maxxis Minion DHR II, 2.4, 60 TPI TLR. Paired with the Tektro hydraulic brakes with 180/160mm rotors, this bike ought to in a position to tackle mountains!
Big Religion Geometry
Big Religion Full Spec’s
- Colours: Copper
- Body: ALUXX SL-Grade Aluminum entrance and rear triangles, 12x148mm thru-axle, 135mm FlexPoint suspension
- Fork: Crest SL FloTune Lite, FloTune Lite Damper, 140mm
- Shock: Crest FloTrac Lite, 165/45mm, trunnion mount
- Handlebar: Big Contact TR, 20mm rise, AL6061 aluminum, 740mm
- Grips: Big small-hand
- Stem: Big Contact, 8 levels, 40mm
- Seatpost: Contact Change AT Lite, 100mm
- Saddle: Big Romero
- Pedals: Big Pinner Lite
- Shifters: MicroSHIFT Creation X Path set off shifter SL-M9505-R (with nanowire)
- Rear Derailleur: Microshift Creation X RD-M6205AM
- Brakes: Tektro, 180mm/160mm
- Brake Levers: Tektro HD-J285
- Cassette: Microshift Creation X G-Sequence, 10-speed, 11×48
- Crankset: ProWheel Attraction, 30t, 155mm
- Backside Bracket: Press Match
- Rims: Big TRA WheelSystem, alloy, hole rim wall building, hookless, 30mm interior width, 40mm outer width, 21mm peak, Extensive Guard Know-how.
- Hubs: Entrance- Big alloy, DBL, six-bolt. Rear – TRA 72t pawl driver, six-bolt
- Spokes: Sapim Laser
- Tires: Maxxis Minion DHR II, 26×2.4, 60 TPI, folding
- Extras: Big 1x chain information
What Dimension Religion Does My Rider Want?
Big provides some tough outlines of the scale steerage.
- Religion 24: 5-9 years outdated and includes a 64.1 cm (25.2 in) standover peak—27 kilos with pedals.
- Religion is 9-13 years outdated and has a 67.6 cm (26.6 in) standover peak—29 kilos with pedals.
Pricing and Availability
- Religion $2,500
- Religion 24″ $2,600
All Big Religion fashions can be found at Big.com or your native Big retailer, as we advise dialing within the excellent measurement.
Search for our first impressions shortly!
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