... or 26" wheels with enough room for 2.4 tires.Looks like it is coming and it will have WAGON WHEELS........
The NINER WFO I have now has a very short reach its a LG and even with a 50-60mm stem seems short to me. But the bike rides very well.....It felt great- more compact (shorter front & wheelbase) and less travel than my (m) Prime, but just as slack.
So, short wheelbase and short reach, less travel and a single pivot with less anti squat is the new modern?
Dude, a single pivot is freaking awesome. Especially one that doesn't use a linkage. You can tune it to work really well, with proper antisquat percentages and profiles/slopes. You can even get a nice rising rate or a flatter linear rate to work with an air shock.Empty beer is going to assplode. Also, interesting how a high single pivot packaged in a complicated linkage is now the best suspension evah.
So, short wheelbase and short reach, less travel and a single pivot with less anti squat is the new modern?
this is the best part about the bike. A sb5c frame is 3400.......!Well the $4500 MSRP on an X01 build is pretty insane add $2K to that for many other brands.....out there.
The page is down, but earlier today the $4500 build was with X1, not X01. X01 build was about $2K more...Well the $4500 MSRP on an X01 build is pretty insane add $2K to that for many other brands.....out there.
Yeah that is huge, if it makes it to market that way. X1, dropper, carbon frame, pike rct3, that's really solid. I do wonder if it'll make it without revisions.this is the best part about the bike. A sb5c frame is 3400.......!
It's not that there's anything new or revolutionary here, just that all the pieces are in place. A nice light frame, short stays which are crucial to handling, a great pivot location, a rising rate linkage, geometry that should work for a variety of situations. It's not crazy long in the top tube, but the large should work fine for me with a 50mm stem, the bb height is great, the stays are short enough that they won't be crazy long at sag, and the suspension is pretty dialed. I love my enduro but I don't need 6" of travel, I'd rather have a shorter bike. It's also a screaming deal if it's real. The only thing I don't like is the 7.25x1.75 shock, which is a weird size.Not really anything new here apart from the fact that a 66.5 deg h-a on a 29 er is crazy slack...
I always find it funny when companies come out with new models and come up with "revolutionary" geo numbers, even though, other companies have been doing similar bikes for over two years... (probably hence why the following trends name)
Right there with you on my chromag surface.Urban assault vehicle.
Just took my short arsed Canfield 29er for a commute ride, so much fun doing cutties and launching of tree roots and carving up and railing garden beds on the foot path. Short rear and 29ers are mad fun in the right context. Mines like a bat, once up to speed it feels like it gets planing and just flies along. Mine's only a hardtail, but with 100-150mm rear suspension it'd be more comfortable for hucking stairs and gaps..
For the small amount of use it gets I can't justify buying a 29er dually, and my hardtail with Pikes is a blast anyway, but I would encourage anyone to try the Evil or Canfield duallies(whatever has the shortest stays)if they do a fun urban commute regularly that isn't a million miles long. Mine sees 50-50 dirt-Footpath/road use.
I'm the last person that thought i'd ever defend evil, but they've satisfied the warranty requests, they had some issues with the uprising which it sounds like they resolved, and people who actually own the bikes LOVE the bikes...it honestly sounds to me like they made an effort to turn the brand around and are putting substance before style.not feeling 29, regardless of which prominent RM posters from 2002 were tangentially involved in this frame.
Looks to me like this bike has been in the works for years, and the market passed it by a while back since Evil were slow to get it produced.
Hella unhappy customers in the Pinkbike thread too. Why go there?
according to several people on PB, theyre still waiting on swingarms for the undead...and those who i know who waited on uprising swingarms, waiting a long time.I'm the last person that thought i'd ever defend evil, but they've satisfied the warranty requests, they had some issues with the uprising which it sounds like they resolved, and people who actually own the bikes LOVE the bikes...it honestly sounds to me like they made an effort to turn the brand around and are putting substance before style.