for those of you that actually have them, what are they like for general trailsy type mucking about/all day xc rides?
I'm tempted to trade in(or give to the mrs) my '06 morewood shova for one.
Really good.
Had mine a few months now. Used it for trail riding around the surrey hills and it's done a week in the alps.
It does make a great trail/playbike, but you wouldn't really want to race xc on it. 😀
It handles deacents brilliantly, is easily chucked about and climbs pretty well for a 150mm travel bike. The only downside is pedal strikes, but thats the pay off for having a trail bike that can be ragged like a mini dh bike.
Would I recomend it/do I like it,
**** yeah 😀
cheers, just tossing it up between that and the normal stumpy. don't want to get "too much" bike although i do prefer the downs to the ups it'll be mostly used for just normal moorsy trails and playing about in the woods.
hmmm also there is the 29 or 26 question to be asked too!
I have one but prefer riding my hardtail or Flux for general local riding, but I live in the Midlands so a 150mm trail bike is obviously too much. I take it on trips abroad or to places where it's a bit rockier and love it there
There's a decent article on the stumpy evo 26/29 here:
http://nsmb.com/5422-stumpjumper-evo-head-to-head-test/
cheers steve, i still haven't got round to getting the orange 5 bud..!, tbh the price is putting me right off! if a cheap 2nd hand 17" frame only deal came up then i'd go for one of them i think, but its not looking like it is going to happen!
the stumpy evo looks like a lot of fun though and i am 29er curious! going to try getting a demo off of certini to see what a 29er will be like around lustleigh and the nutcracker etc I reckon it may be too tight and twisty for a long pig there
Mine is currently back at Orange as i think the back end is out of allignment after my last trip up round Lustleigh, also whilst stripping it i found a crack on the shock mount, probably just paint but we'll see. Waiting for Ben at Orange to get back to me, i'll have a 17" frame back at some point soon hopefully but not sure if it will be the original or not. Paying for a fresh paint job but undecided whether to change it for a Mega or keep it.
There are a couple of med stumpy evo frames on ebay but he's making some money on them - bikescene have them for £800 but have no med left and the fella on ebay had them for £900 a few weeks back but seems to have got a bit greedy now!
blimey the mega is a lot of bike! bit different to the 5 so why the change?
Its a shame about yours though, bell me if you decide to sell it 😉
when are you lot coming up this way next? drop me a line next time and i'll join you.
Yeah i think the mega will be a bit too much bike for the majority of my riding to be honest, my five may well be fine yet, we'll see. Will definately give you a shout next time we head up - hopefully won't be too long.
Have the carbon version here, uselesshipy sums it up perfectly. Don't worry about it being too much bike, it's really not it just not a Xc race bike.
Do uplifts & 30-40 Xc rides on it no probs. Very balanced in the air and the back is very plush. Low bb means the odd pedal strike but gives a lower centre of gravity so corners on rails.
Buy if you are more about getting to the top not uber fast but efficiently and then giving it all on the descents
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@hopkins thats pretty much what i was looking for someone to say really!
Carl - one of my mates has a standard Stumpy and gives it plenty of hammer, it's a 2012 version (he wanted the evo but spesh were totally out of stock at the time of buying) and he loves it, he runs the rear a bit harder than the autosag sets it at but thats prob just him not used to fsr, nice and light and a looker - the rear hub lasted about 5 rides but apart from that no issues. The evo looks even better. The rear hub on his has just been warrantied by Specialized and seems as they had no spares available they paid towards a new pro 2 for him and footed the bill for the rebuild.
that is one of things that does concern me with the spesh builds, my old epic went through 5 shocks and two wheel builds and the brakes failed loads of times too, not massively reliable but decent warranty i guess.
Always good on warranty if needed, i take it your looking at the evo comp? If so i think it looks pretty sorted for that price, wheels are a weak point and i'm not a fan of avid brakes, bar and stem would be swapped too but all fine to start with. Before i got my reverb i had a command post and had no probs with that either.
Not that it counts for much but i know that the mbr long termer had a great review apart from a few component niggles to begin with.
Here's a stumpy evo getting ridden like i ride my five (i wish lol) http://www.nsmb.com/5418-these-are-the-days-dylan-dunkerton
i got some stans/pro2 wheels (although hub would need to swap for 142mm spacing) all the stuff i have that i like from my morewood would transfer over bars/brakes etc so it would be a nice bike i reckon.
got a reverb already in anticipation of new frame(it doesn't fit the morewood)
the stumpy is looking favourite atm, although on the back of this thread a few 5 frames and a full stumpy have been offered up.
Stumpy evo for the win then - with a reverb and pro2/stans, wide bar, short stem and decent brakes you've got one hell of a bike there i reckon. I'd 1x10 it too but that's personal preference.
The pro 2 rear hub just needs a conversion kit to make it 142 spacing, no need for a different hub.
Will def give you a shout next time i head up your way mate.
1x10 absolutely, currently have 1x9 and thats ok.
I have a 2011 stumpy evo expert. Good bike in the fun stuff and hugely capable dowhill and on the technical - but does need to be pushed hard to get it working, particulary on the flatter sections - but when pushed it just keeps giving. Climbs well for a 150 full susser but again you need to work it hard and ride it cleverly to get it too work.
My other offroad use bike is 100mm travel 29er hardtail, on XC, and by that I mean proper west and n yorks XC, it is much less effort.
Fortunately, more by luck than judgement, my two bikes compliment each other pretty well.
To be honest if I was going one bike for everything I'd go standard stumpy over the evo. But then given a totally free choice of bike, but rextricted to just one, I would go longer travel 29er hardtail - but that, as they say, is another story.
+1 to uselesshippy and olddog
and in addition, my 2011 Evo Expert manoevres and turns exceptionally well and seems to be able to power through most big obstacles. Nice active suspension too. 2X10 setup works well. Get one, and then something hardtail and lightweight (ti or carbon?) for XC race.
ha i wont be racing any xc! just use that and my dh bike.