Liv is pushing into more challenging trails with the new Intrigue LT Advanced Pro. The carbon fibre frame is the longest travel bike in Liv’s current line-up, pushing 150mm of rear-wheel travel with a 160mm fork. Add inframe storage and a 3-position flip-chip to adjust geometry and the Intrigue LT, is ready for anything. Whether that’s burly trails, a day in the bike park or, as Liv Racing Collective athlete Rae Morrison’s done, enduro racing at a national and international level.
2023 Liv Intrigue LT Advanced Pro
All three models of Liv’s Intrigue LT Advanced Pro are built around the brand’s Advanced-Grade Composite material, the carbon fibre used by Liv and Giant for mountain bike frames. Travel on is boosted from the standard Intrigue to 150-mm on the Intrigue LT. Paired with 160-mm of front suspension. It is Liv’s longest-travel bike and almost on par with Giant’s enduro race bike, the Reign. The LT boasts significantly more travel than the standard Intrigue’s 125-mm rear and 140-mm forks.
To suit the added squish, Liv slackens out the Intrigue LT and adds longer reach to make it more capable on technical trails. Liv says its suspension is “custom-tuned for women by women,” to make the Intrigue LT fit its rider better.
“The bike showed no weaknesses. It was super fast in the gnarly, techy section and then it excelled in the open flow, jumps, and drops. Besides being crazy light and powerful, a really cool feature was the flip chip [Maestro 3] which let me adjust the geometry to suit the trail conditions. I raced in the mid position because I wanted smooth descending and ascending ability, but I can put it into the low position for a more relaxed geometry for the bikepark or in the high position for steep, angled climbs.”
– Liv Racing Collective athlete Rae Morrison (2023 New Zealand enduro national champion)
More options, mixed wheels
Liv also adds the Maestro 3 flip chip to the Intrigue LT. This gives three options for frame geometry: high, low and medium. Each position changes the head tube angle and seat tube angle by, on average, 0.4 degrees and changes bottom bracket drop by five millimeters. This lets riders tune the Intrigue LT for steeper or more technical riding or all-round ability. For medium and large frame sizes, it also…
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