Fabrizio Dragoni, CEO and riding engineer, was stunned When Mulally had his incredible chainless ride (VIDEO) and an year later when Aaron Gwin winning in Leogang: Chainless (VIDEO) and started to work on a new riding  scenario: chainless riding, maintaining the pedal stroke. 

Chainless riding means flowing sensations, absence of pedal kickback, extremely good braking performance and more. 

It also mean low bike “reactivity”, with a “more travel” feeling and saggy suspension while pumping. 

OCHAIN active spider can remove or reduce pedal kickback, isolating transmission effects from rear suspension when needed. 

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As additional benefit you will notice a noise reduction while riding downhill, as the OCHAIN•E reducing the kickback, the motor can finally manages to distinguish the chain pull from the pedaling intention, avoiding the drive of the gears in the motor when you ride downhill.

OCHAIN•E now comes with 9° only as this is the best compromise between performance and durability for the e-bikes.

Optimizing performance and durability.

Balancing pedaling efficiency and gravity performances we reached our compromise. Compromises are due, contemporary mountain bikes are all born from them. Pedal kickback is one of the consequences, affecting rear suspension performance, despite the best engineers’ efforts.