Ryan Atkinson of Gary Fisher:

Most of you know the basics of the Fisher 29er lineup for 2006. The Paragon and X-Caliber return, and are already in stores with new parts groups and graphics. The Rig is back in black as a complete bike and a RockShox, this year it will also be available as a frameset with a rigid fork. Also returning for 2006 are the 292 and 293. These bikes remain unchanged for this year and are not shown in the catalog, long story, sorry for the confusion.

New for 2006 is the Cobia, a sub $1000 hardtail with a new RockShox Tora fork. We look for this bike to do really well for us.

A late introduction will be a new full suspension platform. Look for it in stores hopefully by next Spring. The platform is called the Race Day FS and the model will be called the Supercaliber 29. It is a shorter travel single pivot design that will be optimized for 29 inch wheels to have similar handling characteristics of the hardtails. The picture here is of the 26″ version.

There are of course two new forks from Bontrager, both Switchblades, one with carbon legs and the other with aluminum. I’ll let some of the show visitors post pictures of these. We also have the Jones XR tires in a 1.8″, but I think I already told you about those.

As always we have a lot of plans for big wheels. We take as much to market as we can with the resources that we have. We are really happy with the growth of big wheels, we expect sales to double this year.

 

via MTBR Forums