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The Downhill Project

Secretly, downhill is the first love of most of us at RAAW. There’s nothing quite like what you can do on a DH bike. The risks you can take, and get away with, leave you with a mischievous grin as you head into the next corner, already trying to one up yourself from the one you just left behind.

Ever since RAAW began, the idea of one day creating our very own DH bike has been a seed in the back of our minds, organically growing along with the brand, until today.

The RAAW DH is a bike built for sending it down the Champery World Cup track, a place that we hold very close to our hearts. There’s no messing around there, no fuzziness in the intended use. Every decision in the bike followed that crystal clear idea and results in a bike fit for tackling one of the most demanding courses to be raced on, again and again.

2022 will be a year of learning, riding, racing and developing the bike. We’ll be taking you along on that journey with videos, photos and behind the scenes stories here on this page, YouTube, Instagram and through our newsletter, all the way to when the bike will be available in early 2023.

Latest DH Project Blog Posts

The Downhill Project Ep. 3 - Coming to a Track near you...

A lot can happen in a year. For us at RAAW, the past year has been a whirlwind. We received the first samp...

Our Privateer Support Program for 2023 Downhill World Cup Riders

Since we started RAAW we’ve dreamed of making a downhill bike and going racing at the highest level. After many hours...

Val di Sole Worldcup Finals Recap

The final round. Looking back, Lourdes feels like an eternity ago. But as we all made our way through to the T...

Les Gets World Championships Recap

The focus of a World Cup season is very much on the rounds themselves. As the season progresses and points are...

Andorra World Cup Recap

We already knew it would be a new track in Andorra. The venue had held a Catalan Cup only a few weeks prior to test t...

Lenzerheide World Cup Recap

Mid-season can be a funny period. The pause after Leogang gave us time to return to normal life a little before the n...

The Downhill Project Ep. 2 - Downhill is Hard

World Cup racing is brutal. Close to 200 elite male riders gave it their all at the Fort William Downhill World Cup....

Leogang World Cup Recap

No one said DH racing was easy. Sometimes luck is on your side, and other times it jumps up and bites you without a m...

Fort William World Cup Recap

The infamous venue of Fort William always puts on a show, regardless of the conditions. This was a home race for the ...

Lourdes World Cup Recap

We're all at the World Cups for the same reason, to win. But while that is the guiding light in our racin...

Going racing

Developing the DH bike was one project. Going racing is another. We’ve been chin scratching about the finer detail...

Developing a DH race bike

Getting across just how many factors, facets and details go into a bike’s development is no easy task. It m...
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