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POLL: What could Enduro bikes do better?

What could current enduro bikes improve on?

  • Weight - many are too heavy, these bikes need to climb

  • Suspension - subpar performance vs. DH bike (after accounting for travel loss)

  • Stiffness - swingarm flex bothers me

  • Seat angle / position - the seat is positioned too far back at full extension

  • Drivetrain - dinnerplate cassettes and super long cages suck

  • Bottle cage mounting - there should be a mount *inside* the front triangle

  • Sizing - needs to be more granular (eg. medium is too small, large is too big)

  • Sizing - needs more range (eg. i'm gemini2k and need a tandem for 1)

  • Donald Trump

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HAB

HAB

Chelsea from Seattle
Apr 28, 2007
11,580
2,006
Seattle
kidwoo said:
HAB: I have seen your aero setups. Have you considered tomac drop bars? It will make an entire generation of bikers in their 40s and 40s respect you for being 'wild' and 'out there'. Win win really.
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That'll be my next purchase, I'm saving up for a skin suit first.

Seriously though, my shoulder is just super fucked up from a series of hockey injuries, and is more comfortable with super low bars. *shrug*
 
Sandwich

Sandwich

Pig my fish!
Staff member
May 23, 2002
21,061
5,970
borcester rhymes
internet jokes. the mtbr mindset would have you switch to shallow drop bars and brifters (or just road levers and friction shifters on the end of your drop bars). I couldn't believe that answer makes a carbon jones-style high angle bar...but whatever!
 
jimw

jimw

Monkey
Aug 10, 2004
210
24
Santa Cruz, CA
Jm_ said:
After about a season and a half, my E29 was shot as far as bearings, slop, when I took them out they were heavily pitted, and here's the thing, the bearings don't seem like they are INTENDED to be replaced. Oh, they can, but it's obvious when you get to the chainstay where there's no lip at all and the outboard and inboard bearing sit up against the bearing hole (requires a blind puller, and even then it's a bitch and the surface gets all keyed/messed up) that the bearings aren't really intended to be replaced. The bike is intended to last about a season or two and then be thrown away IMO.
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I agree that the bearings can be a pain to replace, but I disagree that the frames are designed to never have the bearings replaced. Did you do this on your own with your own tools, or take it in to a Spec dealer? Spec has a full bearing replacement tool kit that most larger Spec dealers have (not cheap, but has various tools designed specifically for every bearing ever used in any Spec frame). And of course they sell full bearing kits for each frame, which would kinda lead one to believe they are intended to be field replaceable. I pulled one of the bearings myself in the link plate in one of my older Enduros and it was a pain in the ass. Then took it into the shop and they used the Spec tool to replace the other bearings in a matter of minutes.
 
Flo33

Flo33

Turbo Monkey
Mar 3, 2015
2,065
1,304
Styria
jimw said:
I agree that the bearings can be a pain to replace, but I disagree that the frames are designed to never have the bearings replaced. Did you do this on your own with your own tools, or take it in to a Spec dealer? Spec has a full bearing replacement tool kit that most larger Spec dealers have (not cheap, but has various tools designed specifically for every bearing ever used in any Spec frame). And of course they sell full bearing kits for each frame, which would kinda lead one to believe they are intended to be field replaceable. I pulled one of the bearings myself in the link plate in one of my older Enduros and it was a pain in the ass. Then took it into the shop and they used the Spec tool to replace the other bearings in a matter of minutes.
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Over here in my town there are 3 Special Ed dealers, none of which has the tool set as it seems to be not available for them. I bought a Hazet blind puller myself and managed to get them out with the help of hot air gun. But the Horst link ones are a real PITA, there is a small shim between the two bearings and that shim makes it nearly inpossibru to get the puller claws behind the bearing.
 
Jm_

Jm_

sled dog's bollocks
Jan 14, 2002
18,960
9,629
AK
jimw said:
I agree that the bearings can be a pain to replace, but I disagree that the frames are designed to never have the bearings replaced. Did you do this on your own with your own tools, or take it in to a Spec dealer? Spec has a full bearing replacement tool kit that most larger Spec dealers have (not cheap, but has various tools designed specifically for every bearing ever used in any Spec frame). And of course they sell full bearing kits for each frame, which would kinda lead one to believe they are intended to be field replaceable. I pulled one of the bearings myself in the link plate in one of my older Enduros and it was a pain in the ass. Then took it into the shop and they used the Spec tool to replace the other bearings in a matter of minutes.
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Yeah, F-em. Link plate isn't all that bad, some of the others are, but F non-user serviceable designs/stuff that requires silly proprietary tools.
 
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