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Niner's big rig got a huge makeover for 2014. In fact, it's hard to recognize the beast after its transformation. By moving to the airform process, the frame dropped a whopping 0.7-pounds. Niner also took the opportunity to bump up the travel 10mm from 140 to 150mm travel, lower the bb by 7mm, slacken the front end (67-degrees with 150mm fork or 66-degrees with 160mm), shorten the chainstays to 443mm, remove 20mm stack height from the head tube, and lower the standover height by an inch on the smaller sizes. Interestingly, they also shortened the top tube by about an inch across the size range.

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