errr I think I may have made a silly mistake… you see I used to race xc and I own a specialized s-works hardtail, but I’ve not been riding much at all for the last 3-4 years. I thought I’d get back into it again, but enduros rather than xc, so I entered transwales. Since I don’t want to do that on a hardtail I figured I should buy a full sus bike, and since I already know & like specialized I figured I’d stick to what I know. Anyway I bought an s-works enduro carbon online (maybe in a bit of a hurry) because for some reason in my mind this was specialized’s “enduro/marathon” bike… however now that I have it, even though it’s quite light, it seems like a LOT of travel for what I actually need. Doing my research online (which, yes, I should have done before) it seems I may have been better of buying an epic or stumpjumer with less travel? I feel a bit foolish since I would *usually* do months of research, testing, to-ing and fro-ing before buying a new bike…
What do you think – am I going to kill my body trying to do transwales on an s-works enduro? Looking at the route there are some decent hills and although specialized’s marketing blurb says the s-works enduro “climbs like a scared cat”, perhaps the aforementioned cat is scared of cardiac arrest or it’s legs blowing up…?