EUROBIKE 2015 | New parts from Reverse Components

It was hard to pass by the stand from Reverse Components at EUROBIKE without spotting their new products for 2016. The ‘Black One’ range now marks their absolute top of the range parts collection and has welcomed the addition of a new stem and bars. Other new entries to the range include a new chainguide, chainrings and disc brakes.
Black One Enduro Stem
The new Enduro stem isn’t just honed to keep its weight to a minimum, it’s also designed to last, and features a wider clamp than its little brother the S-Trail. Initially it’ll solely be available in a 50 mm length, tipping the scales at 144 g and coming with a price tag of 85 €.


Seismic Downhill carbon bars
Another brand new entity are the carbon Seismic bars, measuring in at 790 mm (and easily shortened) with 9° back and 5° upsweep. Although the Seismic bars are part of the top of the range Black ONE collection, they’ve deliberately been designed slightly heavier, and Reverse decided against a 35 mm clamp. This permits a controlled amount of flex and therefore ensures more comfort and less armpump on bumpy descents. At 199 g, the weight is still reasonable. Retailing at 170 € , the bars come in two versions with either 10 mm or 25 mm rise.





X11 EVO chainguide
The Chain Guide X11 will hit 2016 with a second offspring, going by the name of X11 EVO and bringing with it an additional upper chainguide. This has been designed especially for narrow 11-speed chains and the ISCG or ISCG05 mount. Chainrings with 28-36 teeth are compatible with this super lightweight 93 g chainguide. The X11 EVO will retail at 85 €.



Black One chainring
Also created for 1×11 and of a serious high-end quality, the Black ONE Narrow Wide chainring and its 104 bolt circle diameter will initially be available with 32 and 34 teeth, weighing 44 g and 52 g respectively. If the interest is there, Reverse have admitted they’ll consider extended the range at a later date. This lightweight part comes with a price tag of 50 €.

Aircon brake rotors and pads
Generating masses of interest is Reverse’s new disc brake system, which has the style of Shimano’s Ice Tech technology. The three-part, floating disc brakes have a similar sandwich design with an aluminium spider and aluminium cooling surfaces, which should guarantee a significantly better dissipation of heat and reduced fading. Retailing between 40 and 70 €, the discs will come in all the current standard sizes (140, 160, 180, 203) and weigh between 103 and 215 g.


The system’s second part consists of the brakepads with cooling body. Unlike Shimano, these parts are individual. This means that you buy the cooling body once and just need to replace the surface when necessary, which will save money in the long-term. The starting kit with pads and cooling body retails at 23 €. To swap the pads, the price drops to 13 €.


X-One DH cranks
The lightweight X-One cranks are already available as a model with a 2x chainring milled from a single billet, and for 2016 they now come in a downhill version. With 165 mm crank length and an 83 mm axle, its chainrings (32, 34 or 36) are direct mount. Although these cranks are primed for downhill, their low weight of 704 g including bearings and 32-tooth chainring puts them slightly more in the region of XC cranks!

Further information soon at www.reverse-components.com
Text: Andreas Maschke Photos: Cristoph Bayer
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