Flip up the saturation and queue up the smash dance hits from the Bush I period. Should you’re studying this text, you would possibly already be doing each — the Rossignol Tremendous venture is bringing sufficient 1990 noise to make Hans “No Manner” Rey proud.
The Tremendous venture is easy: Take a uncommon, tasty freestyle ski from Rossignol’s again catalog and design new stuff round it. The premise is the 1994 Tremendous Virage, a ski launched solely in Japan. It “symbolized the frenetic power inherent within the Japanese ski tradition of the interval,” Rossignol stated. We don’t know the place Rossignol’s designers have been, however you undoubtedly don’t need to be Japanese to acknowledge the ‘90s steez right here.
The brand new assortment: The Tremendous Blackops skis, Tremendous Sashimi snowboard, and Tremendous Heretic — this slashy mountain bike.
Rossignol Tremendous Heretic 160mm alloy enduro mountain bike
Rossignol first snuck onto the enduro mountain bike scene in 2021, with prototypes Bikerumor glimpsed on the Enduro World Sequence. It’s becoming the model’s wrapping this specific rig a retro jacket — like on that EWS prototype, the easy alloy shaping and Horst hyperlink suspension are confirmed callbacks alone.
Add a premium race-ready Öhlins coil shock in mustard yellow, a gradient fade on the stays from day-glo pink to purple, and the old-school drop-shadow “ROSSIGNOL” lettering, and also you land proper within the candy spot of a throwback look.
Tech particulars
It’s fairly arduous to get any Heretic today, with inventory operating low throughout the 160mm journey aluminum bike’s lineup. The inventory enduro bikes run suspension from RockShox, between Zeb forks and Deluxe shocks at 160mm journey entrance and rear. However this restricted version Tremendous Heretic, in the meantime, runs extra race-tunable Öhlins {hardware}, plus a full; Shimano XT groupset.
Rossignol says the bike hits its stride finest on steep descents. That recommendation comes on the heels of growth by its professional enduro riders, like Clement Charles and Morgane Jonnier.
Tremendous Heretic – Pricing & Availability
“Tuned for racing,” the Tremendous Heretic is “equally at house within the park, or smashing gravity laps on playful trails,” in keeping with Rossignol. It lately went stay on the French gravity sports activities model’s web site in medium and enormous, at $5,799.
