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Evil Imperial or Sinister Ridge?
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If you wanna do much of any seated climbing at all, go for the ridge. The imperials way laid back seat angle makes it pretty much impossible. Otherwise, I dunno: both are amazing bikes, though I believe sinister is in some troubles.
I would avoid anything Sinister at the moment given the issues that the company has been having, at least until they come clean about exactly what's happening/happened and allow the people to make a judgement for themselves.
Frankly, I think the Imperial is about as well made and well constructed a frame as you can buy - and Evil Bikes is a company worth supporting. If the Imperial suits your needs, go for it.
Frankly, I think the Imperial is about as well made and well constructed a frame as you can buy - and Evil Bikes is a company worth supporting. If the Imperial suits your needs, go for it.
Please fill me in on what's known of Sinister's problems, thanks.
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if you're gonna get an imperial you might as well get the SL, it's way sickER because it doesn't have that stupid bar sticking up off the bb cup to run a front derailer, and the dropouts are moveable so you can run it single speed.
Thats just my opinion though, but...... you asked!
I do think the Sinister DNA is a better frame, but you don't want to buy something if they are going to go out of business, because their warranties would no longer be good. Although, I don't think you'd need to use it since their frames are so well made, tested and abused by some very sick riders! I saw E-bot once at the Vans Skatepark, that guy rules, I wasn't very impressed by Porter, (yes I know he doesn't ride for sinister but he was there in the DSR bus with them) and The other guy who rides for Sinister (can't remember his name) But E-bot kills it. SOOOOOO smooth
Thats just my opinion though, but...... you asked!
I do think the Sinister DNA is a better frame, but you don't want to buy something if they are going to go out of business, because their warranties would no longer be good. Although, I don't think you'd need to use it since their frames are so well made, tested and abused by some very sick riders! I saw E-bot once at the Vans Skatepark, that guy rules, I wasn't very impressed by Porter, (yes I know he doesn't ride for sinister but he was there in the DSR bus with them) and The other guy who rides for Sinister (can't remember his name) But E-bot kills it. SOOOOOO smooth
johnbryanpeters said:
I too am not aware of their problems 
The Ridge is much more of a do-it-all frame...............the Evil lacks a trail friendly geometry.
I think that was him, I can't say anything bad about him, he was just working on pulling some sort of sick barspin Funfanu off in a cornor by himself, I think they had been riding all day too. E-Bot was flowing with some serious smoothness though~! Basicly he was killing it! All the BMX kids were in Awe! (very hard to impress bmx kids on a mtb)dexterq20 said:
Don't get me wrong, I suck, but I just expected more from porter.