The bike that started this whole adventure. I had this frame built as a way to test my ideas on mountain bike geometry. Wow! It worked so well I decided to offer Mistress Cycles to the world … and I decided to race that bike at the 2024 UCI Masters Downhill Mountain Bike World Championships.
In my race run I overshot a 40-foot jump to and used the one-time travel extending feature:
One great thing about a steel frame: You can chop out the bent tube and put a new one in. We went ahead and made the tube thicker, and we made the shock mount longer. Since the frame had to be powder coated again, I sprung for Malibu Barbie — a crazy-expensive pink/purple/metalflake that looks insane in the sun.
Nice wheels, fresh brakes and a few bits, and The Mistress v2 is ready for a summer of shred.
