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Issue is thought for being a premium efficiency bicycle model, at this time they make their debut on the planet of MTB with the launch of LANDO. Designed for XC, XC marathon, and quick, prolonged off-road adventures, LANDO is meant to be an uncompromising, carbon fiber racing bike. It’s out there as a hardtail or with full suspension, with specs inserting it on the “premium” finish of the market.
The bike is presently making its racing debut at Cape Epic – one of the demanding multi-stage XC races on the planet. Its maiden outing will see it piloted by the Amani Racing Workforce – a purpose-driven undertaking and key crew companion of Issue, creating alternatives for aspiring racers in East Africa and offering them with a gateway into the worldwide racing scene.
Whereas LANDO will be the first mountain bike produced underneath the Issue title, the model isn’t any stranger to MTB know-how, tracing its roots again to when it was a premium ODM (unique design producer) for different main off-road manufacturers. LANDO’s forward-thinking design is the results of a long time of MTB expertise inside Issue’s improvement crew. The brand new bikes couple Issue’s intensive in-house experience in carbon fiber body design for highway, gravel, and time trial bikes with a deep understanding of contemporary geometry and suspension kinematics in mountain bikes.
Each the total suspension and hardtail variations are supposed to share a imaginative and prescient for light-weight, dynamic, responsive dealing with and pedaling effectivity. They show an engineer’s consideration to element – from a threaded backside bracket design and inside cable routing to an all-new Black Inc ending package – all of which kind an general package deal designed from the bottom up particularly for racing on XC terrain.
FACTOR LANDO XC (Full Suspension)
LANDO’s full-suspension mannequin – the XC – is optimized for a 100-120mm fork with rear journey of 115mm primarily based on a 45mm stroke shock and 100mm with a 40mm stroke shock. The body, with single-pivot link-activated shock suspension and {hardware} suggestions the scales at 2.1kg, and is designed for quick and aggressive XC using. The spine of the bike’s spectacular efficiency is its suspension kinematics – designed to stability the traction and luxury advantages of a extra energetic journey with the firm-platform pedal effectivity required for quick XC racing.
Sustaining torsional stiffness and low general body weight was additionally a vital consideration within the bike’s design. A vertically-oriented shock ensures forces are concentrated within the sturdy backside bracket space, permitting for weight financial savings elsewhere. Equally, the body’s break up seat tube permits using a mono field chainstay connection for further torsional stiffness and diminished weight, whereas its versatile seat stays present four-bar efficiency with out the necessity for added pivot factors.
The usage of a shared shock and decrease swingarm pivot, mounted as extensive as doable, ensures the only, lightest, and strongest use of accessible body materials. LANDO’s one-piece molded carbon rocker enhances its one-piece rear triangle, additionally minimizing weight and maximizing stiffness, whereas eliminating shock aspect hundreds or binding.
LANDO backs up its performance-oriented suspension kinematics, low weight, and stiffness with progressive geometry. A 67-degree head angle and a digital seat angle of 75.5 levels stay constant throughout all 4 bike sizes and complement the bike’s lengthy prime tube and brief stem setup for aggressive XC using.
- COMPLETE STARTING PRICE AT $9,199 FRAME, ONLY STARTING AT $4,499
FACTOR LANDO HT (Hardtail)
The LANDO HT is specced with a 110mm fork, and can also be out there with a Black Inc totally inflexible fork for additional setup flexibility. The hardtail body attracts from design cues seen on Issue’s profitable highway and gravel merchandise. The body’s tube shaping, for instance, shares a number of attributes with Issue’s OSTRO VAM. Equally, the bike advantages from dropped seat stays with a ‘kinked’ design, selling vertical compliance.
Sharing attributes with its highway cousins, nonetheless, doesn’t imply Issue has uncared for the calls for of XC using. The LANDO HT’s prime tube is extensive and flat, permitting for flex underneath the very excessive hundreds skilled when touchdown a leap to flat, or a extreme frontal affect. The bike’s CeramicSpeed T47-88.5 backside bracket, additionally seen on the total suspension mannequin, is without doubt one of the first to be specced on a manufacturing hardtail bike. The usage of enhance 1x spacing and the 88.5 commonplace permits a wider and stronger downtube, and wonderful tire clearance of two.4”.
- COMPLETE STARTING PRICE AT $7,099 FRAME, ONLY STARTING AT $3,299
Black Inc Elements
Issue’s sister element model Black Inc completes the construct for each bikes, providing wheels and a ending package particularly designed for XC using. The Black Inc one-piece bar stem specced on the bike as commonplace presents a bar width of 760mm with an 8-degree backsweep, and a stem size of 60-90mm with an efficient -10 diploma stem angle.
Black Inc’s TWENTY-SEVEN wheels present a forward-thinking inside rim width of 27mm in addition to a 27mm rim depth, with a class-leading weight of simply 1459g per pair. Customized CeramicSpeed bearings, sapim straight-pull CX-Ray and CX-Dash spokes and a tremendously sturdy Ni-Cr axle make sure the 29” wheels are in a position to meet the calls for of contemporary XC using.
Riders can even select to equip a completely inflexible Black Inc. fork to the LANDO HT. The fork’s axle to crown spacing of fifty.5cm slackens the bike’s head-tube angle and weighs in at 720g.
FACTOR Lando XC Specs
- 100/120mm entrance journey / 100-115mm rear journey
- DT Swiss FT232 One fork / DT Swiss R232 One shock
- 2.1kg body, together with shock weight & {hardware}
- Inside cable routing, 1x solely, 2.4” tire clearance
- SRAM XX1 groupset with 32/34T chainring and 10/52 cassette
- CeramicSpeed headset and T47 backside bracket
- Black Inc 27 Wheels
- Black Inc Barstem
- Black Inc 31.6mm Seatpost
- Tires: Goodyear Peak, 29×2.25
- Saddle: Selle Italia SLR Increase Superflow X-Cross TI 145mm
FACTOR Lando HT Specs
- 110mm entrance journey
- DT Swiss FT232 One fork
- 850g body
- Inside cable routing, 1x solely, 2.4” tire clearance
- SRAM XX1 groupset with 32/34T chainring and 10/52 cassette
- CeramicSpeed headset and T47 backside bracket
- Black Inc 27 Wheels
- Black Inc Barstem
- Black Inc 31.6mm Seatpost
- Tires: Goodyear Peak, 29×2.25
- Saddle: Selle Italia SLR Increase Superflow X-Cross TI 145mm
