Hate the marketing BS but I'm liking the Transition Spur but not the price tag. My mates 2012 Process 111 29er has sat in his garage unloved for over a year since he bought his E Bike. Yesterday he said take it on and have a play with it see what you think.
I know plenty of tests since have used the bike as a benchmark and I read a Pinkbike test on the bike from 2013 and the dreaded DC was mentioned even back then 🙄
Is this a daydream of an old giffer or not? I've got an E Bike and a 29 and 27.5 hardtails this is just seeing if it would work out on the cheap, quite possibly end up never getting used but at least I won't have stumped up £5K to find out!
The thorny question is how much is it worth? It was the top of the tree model at the time with Sram XX1, Hope Hoops etc. All it needs to ride is pedals saddle and grips changed, could be an interesting project?
RRP with the old Process was irrelevant, they were always 45% off and at times even more.
Only one I owned was a 153 which I didn't like and tried to kill me
The 111 was an awesome bike. Just ride it.
I just had to google 'downcountry' and then stumbled across funcountry! WTF 🙂
Sounds like a short travel trail bike with nice parts?
The Process 111 was pretty much the original downcountry bike. But for its travel it’s pretty heavy and doesn’t pedal terribly well.
I’ve got an E Bike and a 29 and 27.5 hardtails this is just seeing if it would work out on the cheap, quite possibly end up never getting used
You already know the answer but it's your money.
My friend bought one at full rrp! I know crazy. 3 months later they were 30 to 40% off.
I thought it was heavy for what it was. He ended up putting a bigger fork up front as it was his only bike and it didn't do everything very well.
Do your mate a favour and tell him to stick it on ebay and cash in on the bike craze.
Depends if he wants a load of money for it or not. If it’s cheap you could get it, stick in a slackset to get from 68 degrees to 66 degrees and some light / fast ish tyres on it and just ride it.
It sounds like they aren’t the fastest things ever, but the reach is still fairly sensible (large with 462mm reach and 450mm seat tybe) and the suspension works ok. Run it fairly firm suspension wise and I’d have thought it would be ok.
If he wants a stack of cash for it due to bling (but old) bits I’d swerve it and just get something newer when stocks allow. A secondhand Trek Top Fuel would be worth consideration.
They were awesome bikes, a few friends had them and they were so much fun. They weren’t very light but I guess if you popped on a lighter wheel set and components you could make it more downcountry/upcountry(?)
And stick a £20 set of offset shock bushings in to slacken it another degree and you’ll have the HA down to 65 degrees.
If I had the money and a cheap one came up ins probably do the same as you, but I only have a 29er (fairly aggressive) hardtail that probably needs a longer dropper, lighter wheels and cranks before I get around to a new bike.
Well spent an hour fettling and found its too small for me, can't get the dropper up anh higher, oh well never mind. Puzzling though I had a Medium before the 134 mm travel? 🤔