I hope I don’t upset the current owners about, but I test rode the ‘Enduro SL’ as they were calling it then back in 2007 when they were new, I was riding a 2006 Enduro at the time and was thinking of getting the new one.
I took it for a short loop of Penhydd and couldn’t wait to give it back, the Spesh fork (I think mavrick actually made them) was utter balls, it didn’t matter what you did with it, it just dived through its travel at the slightest provocation – the bike climbed brilliantly, far better than my ’06, but my opinion they sold a lot of Enduros to people who wanted the most hardcore XC bike they could find (6″ bikes were rare back then) who complained they were pretty poor XC bikes so they made it much lighter and more pedal friendly, but IMHO the contemporary Stumpjumper descended just as well or even slightly better as they were still using Fox forks then and climbed better still.
I’d bet they’re a lot better on better forks, but, and this is only my opinion, it was the least Enduro, Enduro they ever made.