User Guide

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2003
The Sugar frame was completely revised
for 2002. No changes have been made for
2003.
Geometry
The Sugar uses Fisher’s race-proven
Genesis Geometry. This design provides nim-
ble handling, high speed stability, and allows
you to stay centered over the bike so in
rough terrain instead of sliding off the back
of the saddle, you can apply pedal power.
Ride
The Sugar’s frame offers outstanding ped-
aling efficiency. This exceptional frame rigid-
ity also gives the Sugar its ‘riding on rails’
cornering ability.
The Sugar design feels like a hardtail
much of the time, but without the jarring of
rigid stays. It climbs well out of the saddle,
it smoothens small bumps for comfort, and
has incredible traction. The traction advan-
tages are full-time, both climbing and brak-
ing hard. The combination of great feel and
low weight makes the Sugar ideal for racing
in technical terrain, or just having fun on a
short ride after work. Its a great all-round
riding bike. And since the weight penalty is
less than a full water bottle, it makes riding
a hard tail seem almost pointless for a lot
of people.
Frame details
The Sugar uses Platinum series ZR9000
aluminum frame technology. A very oversize,
butted and shaped down tube creates a rigid
structure between the bottom bracket and
head tube, for frame stiffness and strength.
Speaking of frame strength, we even added a
big butterfly gusset under the head tube.
The head tube is butted, with a thin mid-
section for low weight, but heavy duty walls
to support the headset cups.
Full top tube cable routing keeps the
cables out of the muck for friction free shift-
ing and braking.
The B*Link design of the Sugar adds
rear end torsional and lateral rigidity. By
keeping the connection between the frame
and swingarm stiff, handling is better. So is
pivot durability. Loose pivots allow a frame
to flex, as well as squeak and wear.
The fittings, like dropouts and shock
mounts, on the Sugar are almost all forged
aluminum. Forging provides the highest
structural integrity, while the low density of
the aluminum keeps the bike light.
The Sugar uses a special dropout to
accommodate a disc brake adapter. This
adapter provides mounting for an
International style rear disc brake.
All Sugar bikes have 2 water bottle
mounts.
Special parts
Disc brake adapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210648
Seat collar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211488
Derailleur hanger . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230026
For rear suspension parts, refer to Sugar pivot
service (all models) on pages E-F
Frame sizes
Head angle
Seat angle
Standover
Seat tube
Head tube
Eff top tube
Chainstays
BB height
Offset
Trail
Wheelbase
Standover
Seat tube
Head tube
Eff top tube
Chainstays
BB height
Offset
Trail
Wheelbase
MILLIMETERSINCHES
15.5 17.5 19 21
71.0 71.5 71.5 71.5
73.5 73.5 73.5 73.5
691 703 714 724
396 446 484 535
90 105 125 145
582 608 628 647
415 415 415 415
303 303 303 303
41.9 41.9 41.9 41.9
71 68 68 68
1055 1077 1098 1117
27.2 27.7 28.1 28.5
15.6 17.6 19.1 21.1
3.5 4.1 4.9 5.7
22.9 23.9 24.7 25.5
16.3 16.3 16.3 16.3
11.9 11.9 11.9 11.9
1.6 1.6 1.6 1.6
2.8 2.7 2.7 2.7
41.5 42.4 43.2 44.0
SUGAR