Got offered a dream deal price recently on a virually unused demo 2012 Jekyll 1 Carbon. Was’nt thinking of a change but rode it a few times, loved it and bought it. After 2 months hard riding its proven itself time after time and I would not want to change it. Personally speaking I’d say its improved my riding no end. I can ride faster, steeper and longer meaning I really enjoy my cycling again and want to go out more than ever before. The adjustable Triad rear shock, although tricky to set up initially, works seamlessly and offers hardtail-like technical climbing one minute with fast, plush descending the next. The frame is light and stiff, the gear change and ratios – Shimano/SRAM 2 x10 – are faultless, and the brakes – Avid Elixir CR’s – are superb. The bike has a few nice features, apart from the 90/150mm travel rear end, which were new to me and add to the whole thing. The first has to be the Reverb seatpost which, with remote control on the bars, makes light work of changing your position whilst on the move. The second is the Multi-Release function on the Shimano XT shifter. I’m a big fan of it now, and use it all the time. It’s very handy when you’ve crested a hill and are heading down the other side or when you pick up speed on fast singletrack. You can drop half-way down your cassette with two pushes instead of the four that it would take on a SRAM shifter. And special mention to the Schwalbe Hans Dampf tyres which work in all conditions better than anything ever before.
Overall bike is great and totally fits the bill of a do-it-all bike. So much so my previous hardtail and full-suss are now redundant, gathering dust and up for sale…
Just one wee Scottish bike dudes opinion, and no expert at all, but hope it helps.
