Digit Launches Ring 29er Trail Bike

Digit Bikes has launched its second bike model using Analog suspension. Named RING, it’s a 29-inch trail bike with 128mm rear suspension travel and a 140mm fork.

RING was designed and handbuilt by Digit engineer, designer, and founder Tim Lane in California, USA. Each frame and fork is customized for each rider’s color preference with a Cerakote ceramic coating and assembled with Tim’s favored slightly esoteric component build.

RING is a great all-rounder if you are more likely to occasionally enter an XC race than to occasionally visit a lift-assist bike park (the Datum, which is available, is likely a better match for you if you’re more likely to hit the bike park than enter an XC race).

Complete bike weights range from 27¾lbs to 26⅓lbs. However, it should be noted that Ring is a stable, sturdy-feeling bike, not a waifish noodle.

Digit’s Analog suspension matches both the better descending and pedaling attributes of the industry’s most respected four-bar suspension systems while delivering significantly reduced weight, carrying more water bottles, and offering improved reliability.

It replaces the many parts on other frames comprising the upper link and shock subassembly with a unified Integer strut. Hidden inside the frame, it guides the upper suspension pivot smoothly and with incredible lateral stiffness. It flows more oil, squeezes more air, and has fewer parts in an easily serviceable, low-motion-ratio package.

Digit Bikes won the Eurobike Gold Award for Innovation (and a Start-Up award, too) on its first day of business. The innovation: A remarkable suspension system named Analog integrates the shock absorber into the frame and employs a strut (basically fork bushings ) to drastically reduce the number of components required. The result: hundreds of grams in weight saving, more water bottle carrying capacity, improved reliability, improved damper performance, and a great look!