Here is Gee Atherton’s World Championship Commencal.

Main points.
Air shock with lock-out.
Lighter weight frame but same geo as his World Cup bike, just without the adjustability
Atherton Pro bars, stem, seat, seat post, grips
Bladed spokes.

The exciting new 2010 range from Commencal in Andorra. Courtesy of freeride.tv

Particularly interesting are the comments about the new 160mm DH bike being enough for people who are trying to ride smooth down hill but NOT RACING… good advise, probably!

7.9kg fully built…

Picture by Justin Fox from EUROBIKE 2008

including the new Fox DHX RC4 rear shock…

(sorry about the advert at the beginning, you just have to sit through it!)

Duration: 2m 43s

Commencal designer and engineer Nico Menard talks about the 2009 Atherton Commencal Supreme racing DH bike

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Win a Ltd. Edition ‘Team Atherton’ Commencal Supreme DH framekit (sorry not the complete bike as shown) and a pair of team race jerseys.

The framekit, which has been made to celebrate Gee and Rachel Atherton’s double win at last year’s World Championships in Italy, includes the frame (duh), a Fox DHX5 rear shock, Sun Ringle rear hub, Thomson seat post and an e.thirteen chain device.

There are only a limited number of these frames being made, so this is a pretty exclusive deal.  And not only that, the jerseys are special too…rainbow stripes and signed by the whole team.

This competition closes on the 6th of May ‘09

Head over to Dirtmag to enter the comp!

Collaborating with Animal Commencal co-sponsors Shimano, Fox, DT Swiss, Chris King, Sunline, E13 and Maxxis, Commencal set to work on producing an ‘all-singing, all-dancing’ replica of the Atherton’s World Championship winning Supreme DH complete with illustrious rainbow stripe paintjob.

£ TBC

For spec…

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