Stealth Series is a run of limited edition bikes spanning the whole Airdrop range. With a fully blacked-out colour scheme and hand-picked build kit from rider-owned brands, these bikes are on another level both in terms of aesthetics and performance.
The Fade Stealth is built around our Fade v2 frame, with a pitch-black matte powder coat finish (you can choose other colours if you like), black brushed head-tube badge and black decals. We've selected the Marzocchi Bomber DJ fork in black to go up front. The wheels are our tried-and-tested Airdrop Bank DJ rims running on Airdrop Motive DJ hubs, but we've produced a limited run of black hubs just for this build. The Sapim Race spokes are, of course, black. They're wearing Maxxis DTH tyres. It's a great platform to get us rolling, but this is where things get really interesting...
We've imported NSB Talon Cranks, Chainring and BB, built to order in North Shore Billet's Whistler machine shop. They're fully CNC machined, DH/Freeride rated and independently tested at EFBE Pruftechnik in Germany. They're good. Really good. The dudes at NSB all ride bikes and they know what they're doing. But perhaps more importantly, they're anodised. In black. While we're in Whistler, we thought a great combo to finish things off would be Chromag. So we put a HiFi v2 stem up front and coupled it with a FU50 alloy bar. Rounding out the build we have a new SRAM DB8 4-pot hydraulic rear brake, Sleeper flanged push-ons and a pivotal saddle from BSD.
At Airdrop we say we build the bikes we want to ride. And we really want to ride this one. Working with NSB, Chromag and BSD means everyone involved rides bikes and is in the game for the right reasons. We're incredibly proud that we're in a position to make bikes like this, and offer you the chance to own one.
Only 15 Fade Stealth bikes will be built. Stealth Series owners will get a numbered certificate of authenticity with the bike, signed by the builder.
