*Pre-Book - Dark Star is scheduled to be delivered in April 2025*
The Dark Star is a premium steel hardtail with sliding dropouts. The sliding dropouts are useful for single speed adaptability as well as adjusting your wheelbase / rear triangle length for your terrain and riding style.
The geometry is fun, fast and playful. It is designed to be used with 120 or 130mm travel suspension fork or our own Future Proof rigid fork.
Darkstar is made by the fine folks at ORA in Taiwan.
Features
- BOSS Premium Steel Super Tubes
- Sliding Dropouts
- UDH Compatible
- 29x2.6” tire clearance
- Bottle Mounts: two in main triangle on Large and X-Large, one on Small and Medium
- Three Pack Mounts: Under downtube - all sizes
- Top Tube Feed Bag Mount
- Stealth Dropper Routing
GEOMETRY
Fast, aggressive, and playful trail geometry. Our ideal blend of fun to pedal and easy to rip.
BOSS Super Tubes
These are a Wilde exclusive, made just for us according to our precise needs and priorities. There are levels to this stuff, and this is the next step in making really really good steel bikes. BOSS Super Tubes are air-hardened, custom-extruded, seamless steel tubing. Super premium. We are no longer tied to the available off-the-shelf options, we can truly pursue the boundaries of strength and lightweight without the constraint of being limited by the available tubing. Whatever tube diameter, wall thickness, or butting profile we believe is best for an application, we can now just make it.
We can also do outlandish and techy stuff. Like for instance you might notice that the Dark Star lacks a gusset on the downtube / headtube junction? The reason is that the steel downtube itself is asymmetrically butted at the headtube junction. That's right, it's way thicker at the bottom of the tube where it meets the headtube. This results in no need to weld in an additional gusset. Which means lighter overall weight and less heat affected zones. Neat, huh?
Frame Specs
- Boost Spacing
- 73mm English BB Shell
- EC 34/44 Headset
- Max Chainring 40t
- 31.6 Seatpost
- 35.0 Seat Collar
Why we recommend also purchasing a Future Proof rigid fork:
If we had our way every single person who buys the Dark Star frame (or any hardtail) would also buy a rigid fork to go with it. We hate the notion that MTB standards change so quickly that in five years your new MTB may be “obsolete.” This problem is easily solved though.
Paired with a rigid fork, your MTB will forever be a useful tool as a transportation or bikepacking bike. Just look at all the 30 year old 26” wheeled hardtails that have been resurrected for daily driving duties the past few years. The Dark Star with the rigid fork is like that, but way more fun and playful as modern MTB geo and technology is a real marvel.
COMPLETE BIKE BUILD
We work with all the major component suppliers in the industry and would love to build you a complete bike. Contact us to get started.