The all-new Niner RKT 9 RDO gets a dramatically lower frame, modern geometry, and adds new tricks like a flip chip and top tube bag mounts.
, living up to the RocKeT acronym, but times and courses have changed. The 2023 RKT gets the expected geometry changes and slight bump to 100mm rear travel, but some of the details are pleasant surprises…The biggest update is the overall frame design. It’s dramatically lower, with a top tube that sits a long ways down from its prior position. And the support truss on larger frame sizes is gone, instead relying on an oversized section leading into an extended seat tube.
The bike keeps Niner’s CVA suspension design, using a lower linkage under the bottom bracket and upper rocker arm to control the rear wheel path and leverage ratio. The design works exceptionally well, but being an “XC race” bike, it’s no surprise they’re including a remote lockout switch for the rear shock on most builds.
Other welcome updates include drainage ports at the lower shock mount, which also houses a flip chip to let you slack things out just a bit more . This would be helpful should you want to swap to a 120mm fork and make it more of a “fun country” bike, which Niner says is perfectly good thing to do. The seatstays also sit low, which led to a more shapely design than Niner’s other bikes at the rear. It not only looks good, it keeps the rear brake caliper tucked inboard out of harm’s way.
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