Tracker FS is our answer to one of the biggest issues in the industry right now: new Nukeproof Tracker FS costs just £1,999

Nukeproof has launched the Tracker FS, a long-travel alloy enduro bike that lifts the geometry and suspension kinematics of its three-time Enduro World Series-winning Mega and drops them into a far cheaper frame. The result is 165mm of rear travel and a 170mm RockShox Domain fork for a complete-bike price of £1,999 (~R43 500) (€2,499 (~R46 900)) — a figure that, in today's market, looks almost like a typo.

The pitch from Nukeproof is explicitly political: the bike industry, it argues, has drifted upmarket while real riders and dealers ask for honest bikes at honest prices. The Tracker FS is positioned as the answer.

Nukeproof's engineers were handed a deliberately blunt brief: keep the Mega 297's pivot points, kinematics and geometry, but build a frame that costs much less to make. As BikeRadar put it, the brand "down-specced the enduro bike's tubing but maintained the suspension pivot points, kinematics and geometry of the Mega."

The savings come from the unglamorous stuff — a non-butted downtube, simplified top tube, reworked dropouts and stay yokes, two ISCG tabs instead of three, and external cable routing in place of the Mega's internal lines. You also get a single colour (black) and an entry-level RockShox damper package. The clever geometry, crucially, is untouched.

The numbers read like a modern enduro race bike because, fundamentally, they are. The Tracker FS runs a slack 64° head angle, a steep 78° effective seat angle (77.5° on small and medium), a 475mm reach in size Large and a 435mm chainstay across every size, with a 343mm bottom-bracket height.

It's a mullet — 29in front, 27.5in rear — on WTB ST i30 Tough rims with Shimano hubs and 2.4in Schwalbe Magic Mary tyres. Five frame sizes span a 430mm reach on the Small up to a roomy 515mm on the XXL, so the size range stretches from compact teens to tall adults.

The Tracker FS lands at a loaded moment for the brand. Nukeproof's old home — Chain Reaction Cycles and Wiggle — collapsed into administration, before Frasers Group (Sports Direct, Evans Cycles) scooped up the assets in 2024. The brand was then sold on again to Belgian Cycling Factory (BCF), the manufacturer behind Ridley, which now runs Nukeproof through its own dealer network.

That history is why the launch language leans so hard on "fair prices" and a transferable lifetime warranty: a reborn brand needs to rebuild trust, and an aggressively cheap, genuinely capable enduro bike is a fast way to do it.

At launch this is a UK and European bike (£1,999 (~R43 500) / €2,499 (~R46 900)), and no South African RRP was announced. Historically Nukeproof reached SA riders through international online retail and grey imports rather than a deep local dealer network, so availability here will depend on how BCF builds out distribution.

If you're cross-shopping locally, the live price tracker below pulls any South African listings for the Tracker FS, the Mega it's based on, and the key parts that define it — so you can sanity-check value in rand rather than guessing at a converted price.