Liv Lurra 130mm Hardtail Rolls Up for Efficiency-Minded Path Riders

Liv Biking is modernizing its hardtail providing with the all-new Lurra. It joins the road up beside the Liv Tempt, contrasting in opposition to that because the performance-oriented hardtail with a extra bold set of geometry figures higher suited to the creating path rider. Packing a 130mm fork, the Lurra rolls on a 27.5″ wheelset in sizes XS and S, and a 29″ wheelset in sizes S, M & L; certainly, riders of a small body can select between a 27.5″ or a 29″ wheelset. Pricing begins at $1,500 USD.

Liv Lurra Hardtail MTB

Whereas the Tempt hardtail stays within the Liv Biking lineup because the budget-friendly choice for rookies, the brand new all-new Liv Lurra gives a extra progressive set of geometry figures and succesful componentry aimed on the rider seeking to broaden their path horizons with more difficult terrain. It’s longer, slacker, has a lot greater quantity tires with a extra aggressive tread sample, and it’s constructed round Liv’s ALUXX SL aluminum frameset.

The Lurra is offered in body sizes XS, Small, Medium and Massive, although considerably confusingly there are are literally 5 sizes of the Liv Lurra to select from. That’s as a result of the small body is offered with a 27.5″ or a 29″ wheelset, so the rider is free to decide on their most popular wheel measurement based mostly on their leg size and using model.

Both means, all body sizes get 438mm chainstays to ship what Liv says is a steady however playful experience expertise. For bikes operating the 27.5″ wheelset, tires come within the type of the Maxxis Ardent Race 2.6″, whereas the 29er choices see a Maxxis Minion DHF 2.5″ out entrance paired with a Maxxis Aggressor 2.5″ within the rear. Each fashions ship with the tires arrange tubeless.

The Lurra boasts attain figures of 393mm, 410mm (S, 27.5), 406mm (S, 29), 425mm and 443mm, respectively, all sporting a 130mm journey suspension fork at a 66° head tube angle. Seat tubes are proportionately brief, complementing use of a dropper seat submit which comes on each the Lurra 1 and Lurra 2 fashions. The XS, S 27.5 and S 29 all get a 100mm dropper seat submit. In the meantime, the Medium will get a drop size of 125mm whereas the Massive will get 150mm. An entire geometry chart for the Liv Lurra will be discovered beneath.

Cable routing on the Lurra is basically inner, although the rear brake hose and equipment cable are guided externally alongside the chainstays. The body is generously adorned with a number of bottle bosses; a set beneath the highest tube permit for safe mounting of a small gear pack, whereas a trio on the downtube and one other set beneath the downtube permit for a number of mounting positions of two water bottles.

Throughout the body sizes, Liv exhibits some regard for acceptable measurement contact level parts; the Lurra in XS will get 165mm crank arms, whereas the opposite sizes see a 170mm choice. Stem size can also be adjusted; the XS and each Small builds get a 40mm stem, whereas the M & L get the 50mm choice. Bar width is 760mm on all sizes save for the Massive which will get a 780mm.

Pricing & Availability

Liv Biking will supply two fashions of the Liv Lurra in most markets, together with within the US. The Lurra 1 tops the vary at a retail worth of $1,850 USD. That cash fetches you the ALUXX SL frameset with a Big Crest 34 SL 130mm Fork, a SRAM 12 Pace SX/NX Eagle Drivetrain, Shimano BR-MT420 4-Piston Brakes with 180mm rotors, and Big AM Wheels with 30mm inner width rims fitted with Maxxis Tires within the EXO Casing.

The Lurra is the extra reasonably priced mannequin priced at $1,500 USD. This one builds up that ALUXX SL frameset with a Big Crest 34 130mm fork, a ten Pace Shimano Deore Drivetrain, Tektro HDM 2-Piston Brakes with 180mm Rotors, a Big AM Wheelset and Maxxis Tires within the EXO Casing. For full particulars on construct specs, head to the Liv Biking web site. Additional pricing information for worldwide markets will be discovered beneath.

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