What does the future of the mountain bike look like?

The manufacturer Focus has dared to look far into the future, the Stuttgart design study of the mountain bike of tomorrow is very openly formulated. Designer Erik Habermann takes a more concrete and equally cool look into the coming years: his future study of the downhill bike literally makes your mouth water.

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At Focus, the design study for the company's 25th anniversary serves as a kind of vision. The device is not mobile in the form sketched, even wheels are not planned. Instead, the concept is intended to provide an outlook on the design language of Focus. All future Focus bikes are to be based on the study.

Detached from a manufacturer, designer Erik Habermann is making the internet go wild. His concept studies for a downhiller are causing a sensation on Instagram and Facebook. Under the fictitious brand "Gnarly", Habermann has created a bike that will probably never exist in this form, but is bursting with clean lines and clever ideas for system integration.

For example, the top tube fulfills several tasks at once: This is where the controls for the suspension are located and the support for the rear triangle is designed as a kind of slide. In the cockpit, Habermann once again goes all out with system integration. The stem and handlebars form a single unit, brake elements are also integrated directly into the handlebars and the cables are neatly routed internally. As the gear shifting of the future is undoubtedly electronic, a simple plus/minus switch on the "Gnarly" is also sufficient for changing gears.