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Lal Katana (review)

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Lal Katana

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Pinkbike - Nov 12, 2021

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An important update on the Katana bike & the future of Supre Drive

I just uploaded a new video discussing the future of Lal Bikes, the Katana, and the Supre Drive: https://youtu.be/Qu_sQRVB_Go First, thank you to everyone who has supported us since we opened Katana pre-orders last spring. Unfortunately, due to financial constraints, we made the difficult decision not to bring the Katana

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March 12, 2026

New video: How the Lal Katana tech works

For everyone who loves to get into the technical details, we’ve just published a new video on our YouTube channel just for you. In this 10-minute tech explainer, we take a deep dive into some of the engineering and design behind the Supre Drive and the high-pivot Katana frame. Watch

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September 28, 2025

Lal Katana reveal

Here’s the Lal Katana! This is the bike we’ve been building toward for years. 📽️ Watch the reveal video: https://youtu.be/WTmF4A10rg8 📖 More info: https://lalbikes.com/ 📝 First ride review by NSMB: Graham test rode the Katana and made a great article about it with lots of background info: https://nsmb.com/articles/lal-katana/ The Katana

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April 10, 2025

Lal Bikes 2024 recap

There’s been lots going on at Lal Bikes this past year. As mentioned in our last newsletter, we’ve been in a bit of stealth mode to focus while we develop a frame. We’re not ready to reveal the most juicy details, but read on for some insight. At the beginning

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January 6, 2025

Update about Supre bikes

When I started Lal Bikes, the long term vision was to become a drivetrain manufacturer that sells derailleurs and other drivetrain parts to many bike companies. This is still our vision because it’s the way to make the Supre Drive the most available for mountain bikers, but the way that

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July 11, 2024

Article on singletracks.com

If you’re interested in what we’re doing at Lal Bikes, I think you’ll enjoy this article: https://www.singletracks.com/mtb-gear/the-lal-bikes-supre-dr… Sam James from Singletracks came over for a visit recently. We showed him our shop and had a long chat about the adventure of getting to where we’re at, and about how the

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January 22, 2024

Progress in 2023

Moving into 2024, we have a super exciting project that I can’t wait to share with you folks. But in the meantime, here are some highlights from 2023: 1. Right at the start of 2023, I was joined by Alex Ham who moved from South Africa to join Lal. We’ve

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January 7, 2024

Amazing huck-to-flat video

Slow motion video of bikes bottoming out, featuring the Supre Drive https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uQSv3Asu6E This video is part of the recent Pinkbike field test, and it includes beautiful slow motion footage of several bikes landing to flat, with full suspension compression. In the second half of the video, they show the drive-side

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November 3, 2023

Pinkbike review of the Nicolai Nucleon 16

Pinkbike just published an article about their recent testing of the Nicolai Nucleon 16 with our drivetrain, the Supre Drive. Check it out! https://www.pinkbike.com/news/field-test-nicolai-nucleon-16-supre-the-silent-plow.html The feedback is positive and we’re stoked. The team here at Lal is pumped to keep charging forward! Thanks to Pinkbike for giving us for the

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October 25, 2023