Poking around the interwebs looking for some Turner DHR information and it looks like Turner has ret-con'd it from existence.
I haven't heard back from Turner, so I was wondering if anyone knows if the venerable DHR is gone for good, or if this is just a blip and a new Carbon 650b DHR will appear soon?
It'd be sad to see one of the best downhill bikes of all time disappear from the landscape.
someone on rm had spoken to dave - (to paraphrase) apparently no plans to replace it due to too small sales volume. they were blowing them out on the turner site for a while, but i guess they're all purged now.
At the current scale of his operation it will be 4 years at least. Dh race bike market is certainly saturated and enduro bikes have to be cutting into the share. It is a bit sad that one of the early leaders in dh race bike development can't fit it into the program anymore. It would be cool if a top racer or team financed him to develop it then he would get more excited I bet.
That said, I love my 08 round tube, super solid still and don't feel like I'm missing out on anything.
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