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Description: As impossible as it seems, this bike just keeps getting better.
In 2003, the almighty M-1 is being fitted with the new 5th Element suspension system or Romic Twin Tube system, a mind-blowing suspension set-up so completely radical it prompted a redesign of the M-1 monocoque just to accommodate it.
Consider, for a second, the significance of the world's most brilliantly engineered downhill racing bike bowing to a suspension system.
Incredible.
By combining the two in one bike design, Intense not only moved the benchmark ridiculously high, they inadvertently kicked the competition in the teeth on the way up.
-First fully adjustable downhill frame, head angle, bottom bracket, wheelbase, disc brake mounts, and suspension leverage ratios are adjustable.
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Submitted by
david
a Downhiller
from san mateo
Date Reviewed: December 2, 2007 | | Duration Product Used: | Tested or demo'ed only | | Strengths: | good frame nice good working | | Weaknesses: | swing arm craked if you have one for sale please call {650} 685-6145 | | Bottom Line: | need a swing arm | Value Rating: Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Kirtus DeFehr
a Downhiller
from Sardis, B.C.,Canada
Date Reviewed: February 15, 2007 | | Favoriate Trail: | KNOB GOBBLER | | Duration Product Used: | 6 months | | Price Paid: |
$1500.00 | | Purchased At: | eBay | | Strengths: | This frameset is amazing! Shorten up the wheelbase and its like a bmx race bike! sweet in the turns and great in the air. | | Weaknesses: | Seat angle is retarded.
You have to ride with the seat way high, and if you don't the rear wheel is going to take it off!
I ran a Race Face XY post backwards just to be able to lower the seat enough for my preferences. | | Similar Products Used: | Vp Free | | Bike Setup: | 06 Boxxer WC, Pink King wheelset, Chromag, Juicy 7, X0/XTR, Maxxis High Rollers, MRP, RF Diabolus Cranks | | Bottom Line: | If you want a DH bike, and you are tall and don't mind having your seat in you azz while you are rippni' get it!
if you are 5'10" get the small size frame, the medium will beat your balls! | Value Rating: Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
A S
a Downhiller
from NY
Date Reviewed: April 5, 2006 | | Duration Product Used: | 1 Year | | Price Paid: |
$2100.00 | | Purchased At: | Frame only | | Strengths: | -Excellent geomerty for intended use
-Superb suspension action
-Adjustability for varied terrain | | Weaknesses: | -High maintenance, race specific frame
-Low BB means pedals get smacked often
-Monocoque frame is noisy | | Similar Products Used: | Santa Cruz Super 8
GT DHi | | Bike Setup: | Shimano Saint throughout w/ factory works Marzocchi Super T | | Bottom Line: | The Intense M1 is arguably the best DH race bike ever made and will be loved by experienced racers looking to win. It was not intended for freerding or just tooling around the mountain. The bottom bracket is low, which allows the bike to corner like it's on rails but also means the pedals get snagged easily when you try to pedal through rocky sections. The M1 also requires constant care with it's many pivot points. I would recommend the Intense M1 for riders who enjoy racing and don't mind tinkering with their bikes. If you're looking for a fun shuttle bike or freerider, look somewhere else. | Value Rating: Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Mike
a Downhiller
from Santa Barbara
Date Reviewed: September 12, 2005 | | Favoriate Trail: | Tunnel Trail | | Duration Product Used: | 3 months | | Price Paid: |
$800.00 | | Purchased At: | eBay | | Strengths: | This is a great bike. The frame is very strong and I have taken it on some pretty punishing trails. You can do almost anything on this bike. | | Weaknesses: | The only problem i've had with it is that it does not have a mount for a disc in the back. | | Similar Products Used: | Kona Stinky, Kona Stab Primo, Intense M3, Demo 9, and a Norco??? | | Bike Setup: | Fork: Risse Champ with 9in of travel
Rear shock: Fox Vanilla RC that has been "Pushed"
Cranks: Race Face
Chain Guide: MRP
Handle Bars: Monkey Lite DH
Headset: Chris King
Hub: Risse
Wheels: Mavic Deemax
Frame: duh...M1...yellow!
| | Bottom Line: | This is by far the best bike I have ever ridden. Mine was a good value, but I've had to put about $1,000 into it so I could have it my way. I highly reccomend this bike to anyone who wants a PERFECT downhill bike. It may set you back alot of money, but it's worth it!! | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Benoit
a Downhiller
from Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Date Reviewed: August 11, 2005 | | Favoriate Trail: | Boomerang (Bromont.QC) | | Duration Product Used: | 1 Year | | Price Paid: |
$3000.00 | | Strengths: | All can be custom tailored for your ride, angles, supension, wheel base... | | Weaknesses: | None | | Similar Products Used: | Kona Stab Primo | | Bike Setup: | 05 BoXXer Team, Hayes 8", X0 shifter, X9 derailleur, Thomson, Chris King, MRP chain guard, Deemax, 5th element with Ti spring, Race Face Diabolous, etc... All the best to my liking! | | Bottom Line: | Anyone who writes stuff like ripping off a head tube of destroying any part of this bike is lying... We are a couple of firends with the same bike set-up for the last couple of years and we never broke anything off! I do some pretty sick stuff with the bike and occasinnally something will break, but anything breaks when you hit a rock straight on @ 80 clicks after a 10 feet drop off !!! Be serious, this is the top! | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Joe Grey-Wilson
a Downhiller
from fort collins, colorado, USA
Date Reviewed: April 30, 2005 | | Favoriate Trail: | monstert89@hotmail.com | | Duration Product Used: | Less than 1 month | | Price Paid: |
$400.00 | | Purchased At: | internet. pinkbike. | | Strengths: | this is one of the greatest bikes ever built buy man and machine, everything now a days is built by machines. the 5th is amazing. all i can say is that the colors are sick. everything is sick and u should go buy one | | Weaknesses: | nothing. but the derailer hanger but that doesnt matter deal with it if it breack and take the bike to a machine shop and have them weld one back on. | | Similar Products Used: | santa cruz super, Bighit expert and DH, norco team DH. kona stinky supreme | | Bike Setup: | boxxers(not the best for a bike like this). prodigy cranks. kona Jacksh t pedals. | | Bottom Line: | a great bike that everyone in there life time of racing and biking should have the chance to hop on one and go ride. It can take what ever u can throw at it unless ur Josh bender. LOL. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
chris litty
a Downhiller
from el segundo, ca, usa
Date Reviewed: May 21, 2004 | | Duration Product Used: | 3 months | | Strengths: | great frame | | Weaknesses: | support, I bought the frame from a guy on mtbr and the b/b was messed up. I sent it to intense and the are replacing the frame (at a cost). It has been about 2 or more months months now and I have been told for the last two weeks "oh, that should be here tomorrow". They tell me "I'll call you tomorrow" and never do.
Intense has the worst customer sevice standards of any company that I have dealt with in any industry. I will never buy an intense product again | | Similar Products Used: | specialized big hit | | Bottom Line: | never buy an intense bike... they used to be the best bike out there, but other bike companys technology has come so far that intense is no longer the badest on the hill.
With their lack of customer service, I would definately buy a different companys product. | Value Rating: Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Miguel Fonseca
a Racer
from Lisbon
Date Reviewed: November 13, 2003 | | Duration Product Used: | More than 3 years | | Price Paid: |
$3300.00 | | Purchased At: | National rep. | | Strengths: | -Suppleness
-Strength
-Accurate
-Pedalling friendly | | Weaknesses: | -Manitou shock option that came w/mine
-WARRANTY COVER AND POST SALE ASSISTANCE: PEOPLE AT INTENSE DO NOT CARE ABOUT GIVING A QUICK RESPONSE TO YOUR NEEDS. WHILE RACING THEY TOOK AS LONG AS 4 WEEKS TO RETURN A REPAIRED SWINGARM | | Similar Products Used: | GT STS DH, GT Lobos DH, Schwinn Straight 8. | | Bike Setup: | Boxxer, XTR, Hope and Azonic parts. | | Bottom Line: | If you are a serious racer don't buy this bike because if you have a problem with the frame or any part that needs manufacturer assistance they are not willing to help you!!! Everything is pink to buy but then to assist it is probably one of the worst manufactures. I broke a GT rear swingarm and in 5 days I had a new replacement. With intense one month has passed and nothing. DO NOT BUY. BEING THE BEST IS NOT ONLY HAVING A GOOD FRAME IS MUCH MORE !!! | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
daniel B
a Downhiller
from quito pichincha ecuador
Date Reviewed: October 1, 2003 | | Favoriate Trail: | ilalo dh | | Duration Product Used: | 6 months | | Price Paid: |
$3800.00 | | Purchased At: | DV | | Strengths: | everything, manitou dorado | | Weaknesses: | none | | Similar Products Used: | turner dhr specialized big hit | | Bike Setup: | manitou dorado, fox vanilla rc, xtr, race face, king, pro taper, maxxis mobster, mavic 321 , azonic pedals | | Bottom Line: | i think that a person that really push a intense to the limits should said it really rocks intense kicks ass and its the best looking dh bike | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
CB
a Racer
from Atlanta
Date Reviewed: September 15, 2003 | | Duration Product Used: | 1 Year | | Purchased At: | Free To ME | | Strengths: | Great Durability, Rails through turns. Very Stable tracks well through rock gardens and pretty well anything. | | Weaknesses: | No replaceable hanger on mine. Hasnt been a problem so far but its a matter of when not if. | | Similar Products Used: | Turner DHR, Yeti DH9, Specialized S-works DH | | Bike Setup: | Race face NS cranks, MArzochi Shiver, Hayes, ultegra cassetts, MRP Kovachi Wheels | | Bottom Line: | Great Bike with a good ride but I like the ride of the turner much better. The turner just seems to instill more confidence. Only beef with the parts is with the wheels. Kovachi is an a-hole when it comes to his customer service. The kovachi hubs need constant attention and on one of the rims the welds tore.
p.s. whats with the BS reviews. who the hell puts a rigid fork on a DH bike and the guy talking about ripping the head tube off is full of sh!t A guy on the team did a 15 foot drop onto flat concrete and the rear wheal was all that blew up no other problems on the entire bike. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Mr Popo
a Downhiller
from England
Date Reviewed: August 31, 2003 | | Favoriate Trail: | snail trail ;) | | Duration Product Used: | 1 Year | | Purchased At: | stole it at local bike shop | | Strengths: | good to get away from shop owner | | Weaknesses: | doesnt go fast when chased by police | | Similar Products Used: | car and motor bike | | Bike Setup: | i dunno | | Bottom Line: | looks nice | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Steve
a
from Memphis
Date Reviewed: July 25, 2003 | | Duration Product Used: | Tested or demo'ed only | | Strengths: | I hear it's a pretty good design. I've demo'd it before, and it did deliver perfect performance. It does have replaceable rear derailleur hanger now. | | Weaknesses: | none.
The guy in the review BELOW, aside from being the kind of JERK that screws around with MTBReview ratings, must be insane! He's totally out of line for putting really bad language in an information site like this! | | Bottom Line: | I like the M1. Although I do not own one, I've ridden it for the better part of a week.
Jeff Steber, of Intense Cycles, makes a quality bike!
** I really get pissed that illiterate, juvenile punks get on the review boards and screw them up!
The M1 is as good a downhill bike as you can get!
I'm rating everything as 5 chiles, just to try to support a good company, run by a good man, who makes great bikes!
Go Intense!!! | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
chris jewesson
a Cross Country Rider
from prince george, b.c., canada
Date Reviewed: July 4, 2003 | | Favoriate Trail: | trailer park trail | | Duration Product Used: | 6 months | | Price Paid: |
$8200.00 | | Purchased At: | mc bike | | Strengths: | none. this bike is the worst piece of sh*t in the world. i took a little 4 foot too smooth transition, and ripped off the head tube. i busted off both cranks too | | Weaknesses: | everything. every single part on this bike licks sh*t off my @sshole. i cant believe i paid money for this sh*t. anybody who buys this bike is a g@y homo. | | Similar Products Used: | quantum infinity, supercycle, ccm, khs fetish | | Bike Setup: | stock | | Bottom Line: | THIS BIKE IS SO INCERIBLY CHEAP, ANYBODY WHO WOULD BUY IT IS A PIECE OF SH*T!!!!ANYONE WHO GAVE THIS PIECE OS SH*T A BAD REVIEW IS VERY SMART AND KNOWS WHAT THEY ARE TALKING ABOUT. THE D@MN THING BROKE SO EASILY! THESE RATINGS SUCK TOO IF I COULD I'D GIVE THE D@MN THING A 0 OR -2 OR ANYTHING LESS THAN ONE! | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
trig
a Racer
from manchester, england
Date Reviewed: June 22, 2003 | | Favoriate Trail: | street | | Duration Product Used: | More than 3 years | | Price Paid: |
$6000.00 | | Purchased At: | a shop | | Strengths: | You can get it in white.
White bikes are so much faster | | Weaknesses: | Head angle goes a bit funny when fitted with a rigid fork | | Similar Products Used: | Ralaigh chopper, various tandems | | Bike Setup: | Trials: 22tooth cog, magura HS 33s | | Bottom Line: | The suspension can be confusing when doing back-hops, but you get used to it. For comps I put a piece of wood where the shock is, to make it "more responsive" - killer. Don't use tyres bigger than 1.5", its just not done... | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
micha Tomkiewicz
a Racer
from Maasmechelen, Limburg, Belgium
Date Reviewed: April 20, 2003 | | Favoriate Trail: | Todtnau (germany in europ) | | Duration Product Used: | 3 months | | Price Paid: |
$7000.00 | | Purchased At: | evereywhere | | Strengths: | the hole bike kicks ass | | Weaknesses: | Ar u serius | | Similar Products Used: | A specialized fsr dh from 2001 | | Bike Setup: | Manitou dorado 2003, xtr, special mrp, deemaxes, hayes,5th,
..... | | Bottom Line: | This is tha top, u can get any better than this, it handels very well and u go faster than u've ever ridden before and u still have the feeling that u can go a lot faster because the bike is better than u, I can describe it if u ever have the chance to ride on don't doubt it and u never won't enything else. i never forget my first impresion after the first run an this bike, I was a lot faster on a track on my new M1 than on my old fsr dh, and I knever had so much control over a bike befor, its a unbelivable racemachine...... | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
nir
a Downhiller
from chicago
Date Reviewed: April 8, 2003 | | Favoriate Trail: | aggressive urban FR DH | | Duration Product Used: | 3 months | | Price Paid: |
$5300.00 | | Purchased At: | beyond bike | | Strengths: | fastest dh bike, beautiful, stiff, activity suspension. | | Weaknesses: | unreplaceable derailleur hanger, little heavy,limited warranty similitude to other manufacturers. expensive | | Similar Products Used: | specialized big hit | | Bike Setup: | 5 element, race face, MRP, KING, XTR. | | Bottom Line: | best DH bike on the world without replaceable derailleur, I broke it after 3 months, it replaced by Intense, after 10 days. the warranty limited 2 years, Specialized give a lifetime warranty for the main frame for a half price bike. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
habihb oookan
a Downhiller
from australia
Date Reviewed: April 6, 2003 | | Favoriate Trail: | any downhill | | Duration Product Used: | 3 months | | Price Paid: |
$5200.00 | | Purchased At: | local shop | | Strengths: | looks da s$#t | | Weaknesses: | but it isnt da s$#t | | Similar Products Used: | specalized bighit dh 03,giant dh team 03 | | Bike Setup: | monster t2,mrp world cup crank,xt rear mech, hayes hfx mag 8inch,sun doubletrack, sun abbah hubs, | | Bottom Line: | it looks good and isnt a bad bike but it really dissapoint at the bearings, there constantly coming loose and the suspension doesnt feel like 8 inch at all, my hardtails got more travel than this gay thing.the owners are so worried about the looks they should become fashion designers instead , my freainds specialized kiks this versaces red ass. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Jack
a Downhiller
from Salt Lake City
Date Reviewed: January 14, 2003 | | Favoriate Trail: | Canyons | | Duration Product Used: | 3 months | | Price Paid: |
$5300.00 | | Purchased At: | Beyondbikes.com | | Strengths: | Bomb Proof, Super Stiff, Killer angels, Very plush! | | Weaknesses: | None that I have noticed. | | Similar Products Used: | I raced last year on a Specalized Big Hit. This year I decied that I wanted a bike that would let me win! | | Bike Setup: | Marzocchi Shiver
5th Element Rear Shock
Hadley Wheel set hand built with 321
Maxis Mobster, Highroller combo
Profile Cranks and BB (good for guys that bust)
Answer protaper bar
Hayes 8" front and Rear | | Bottom Line: | This bike is the nicest DH race bike on the market. I know that I will be a better rider. I didn't like how my other bike's would flex in the turns. This bike is super stiff. I think it is important for me to give props to Beyondbikes. This shop is the first one that actually had a clue! I have tried to deal with some other mailorder companies but I got tired of XC race guys trying to give me DH advice. Their prices were great as well. I got the shiver fork on close out for $850. Bottom line: This bike kicks ass! I will write another review at the end of the season and let everyone know how she holds up! | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
neil
a Racer
from NJ, USA
Date Reviewed: December 30, 2002 | | Favoriate Trail: | Plattekill | | Duration Product Used: | 1 Year | | Price Paid: |
$2000.00 | | Purchased At: | Private Seller | | Strengths: | -great geometry, slack for stability at speed
-lightweight, but not stupid-light
-tracks well, rear end is stiff with the 12mm TA
-controlled suspension, the 5th element is a godsend
-pedals like a hardtail | | Weaknesses: | -monocoque, makes some popping noises
-low BB, chainguide bashes rocks lots
| | Similar Products Used: | 2002 Giant DH Comp | | Bike Setup: | 02 Marzocchi SuperT (soon to be Boxxer Team)
MRP (soon to be E13)
XTR drive train
Sun-Ringle DH TA Wheelset w/ Sun Singletracks
Michelin DH Tires | | Bottom Line: | i have the 2002 M1 but it is identical to the 2003, except for decals. It was my downhill race bike this past season. It's hard to describe how awesome this bike rides. It feels plush on the big hits, but quiet while pedaling. Very stable at speed, drops with ease. it just wants to go fast. nice and slack...just dive into rock gardens at speed and hold on. very flickable, turns like its on rails. if you get this bike and aren't getting top 10 finishes, its the rider, not you. despite its popularity, IMO, there aren't many frames out there that surpass its performance | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
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