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Chops through the what now?
Jokes aside seems this is a marmite bike at the moment, some people saying its ugly as sin some others loving the design. I'm in the latter camp
Chunder is a thick soup prepared with milk or cream, a roux, and seafood or vegetables
Chowder soup
Chunder soup with human processing
This was peak Slash.
The new one is a munter in comparison. There are much prettier high pivot enduro bikes available.
at least they didn’t say that it chomps through the chunder.
Use of chunder to describe rough or uneven ground is pretty common.
It's definitely a bike only a mother could love. But that said I think that's the tendency with high pivot bikes* - some of the frames can look lovely but once built with all those idlers they tend towards looking like some truncated steam punk ideal of a bike.
Still I'm sure it works well in practice despite my feeling its a bit emperor's new clothes.
*the deviate ones are really quite pretty but mainly by virtue of not having a lower idler and a tiny upper one.
I really liked that. Then I saw the prices! 😳
I think it looks great tbh... Function dictating form but it's still got some really good lines (and it does look better in the larger sizes too, the small ones look a bit 2000s especially since the sizing seems conservative. Though the final chain run to the mech is kinda unsightly. Including the bottle cage in all the promo shots is a kind of brave move too
The last gen always looked like someone had overinflated an XC bike and the original one had that terrible bent seattube. "OK guys, we've got a completely blank sheet of paper and we've got to do a seat tube- but let's push the boundaries and see if we can make it simultaneously hideous, way too slack, but also we're at the dawn of the era of the long dropper so let's make sure you can't fit one". Mission accomplished!
The price seems ridiculous though. I guess that's a Trek thing, when I got my remedy the RRP was easily a third too high, it was a bkiidy expensive bike covered in own-brand not-quite-right parts. But here that's still true but now the bottom-end bike is as expensive as that bike's top-end model was.
So we aren't schralping the brown pow any more?
I need to keep up with the lingo so I don't embarrass myself in the carpark pre-ride...
Doesn't look too bad - like it in the dark green, not a fan of those bars though.
But how much for the cheap one 😳
Hmmm. Not for me looks wise, I'm sure it rides well though.
Just a query on high pivot full sus bikes. Do you need to buy two chains when it wears out, or is a regular chain long enough?
I'd guess you would need a longer chain, but unsure how much longer.
Do you need to buy two chains when it wears out, or is a regular chain long enough?
No need to buy two chains, just need to make sure it's long. My Dreadnought (XL) needs a 134 link chain - plenty of places sell them longer than that.
Use of chunder to describe rough or uneven ground is pretty common
Is it? I've never heard it to mean anything other than vomit in the UK
Specialized used to make a tyre called a chunder.
Lower idler positioning to prevent chain growth is very clever - I'm not a Trek kind of guy but I quite like that. Think they'd do a steel one? ;o)
I stopped for a chat with someone at the trail drop in and commented on his high pivot. It took a second look before I realised what it was. They look nice in green. I'm not sure about the look of the integrated stem but it's very short. I was quite impressed, wireless seatpost and gears, apparently it can take a 190 travel fork. The rider was fast enough that the bike didn't make a difference.