While it's no secret that Privateer has been working on something new, the company isn't ready to reveal it all just yet. It takes a lot to bring a bike to market. A lot of testing, tweaking and refining. The bike may not be ready, but Fergus Ryan has been putting the prototype through its paces.

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Privateer admits to not being ready to 'spill the beans' on the bike just yet, but they seem very excited about what their engineers have been working on. 

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