New bike day! Epic Evo content

Well after thinking about it for about it for 6 months I finally raided /all/ my piggy banks and spent some money.

First Ride today and it finished a lot dirtier than it started.

I have swapped out the tyres for Maxxis out of the box as I’m not keen on the Ground Controls.

Saddle may get changed but want to try a few more rides first.

Did you choose the frame colour to match the trees?

Nice looking bike. 👌

Leaves need sweeping, other than that, nice bike.

@ Matt – official colour is named ‘satin harvest gold’.

@ Kramer – I will sweep the leaves if it ever stops raining for more than a few days 😉

Edit – double post

Enjoy! Weather’s been so grim here I can hardly remember how to ride mine. Must get it out soon and practise a bit for the Colne Valley Challenge.

Very nice. Needs a black bottle 👌
Your tree wants putting back upright.

Looks lovely, what’s the blue thing some kind of mudguard for the frame gap and if so, is a Spec thing or available to buy somewhere?

Nice 👍

Nice!

I love my Epic Evo, it’s easily the best bike I’ve ever ridden.

@kryton57 – Yes it is a little mudguard to try to protect the lower pivot and stop stones getting in the gap between swing arm and BB

https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4944925/files

It mounts to the lower bottle mount

I got a local lad to make it for me for a few quid, but he only had blue filament!

I got a local lad to make it for me for a few quid, but he only had blue filament!

I’d love one of those, would he make more?

@clink – his FB page is below

https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61557464455390

Can he not get filament in satin harvest gold 😁

Thanks for the link @dawson

I could do with one of those for mine so I’ll give him a shout.

maybe not as neat but section of inner tube(zip tie) works perfectly.

not the best pic

@dawson – cheers I’ll give him a shout

I have a dirtskirt for mine:
https://www.foxfolk.co/en-gb

Quite neat, but my guess is that it fits Stumpjumpers slight better than Epics. Reckon it’ll do the job, but might replace it with a plastic 3D printed doodah sometime…

https://flic.kr/p/2pGC5vp

That skirt hing is pretty cool… just printing it now (in white) to see how it looks on my Evo..

DrP

Love my Epic Evo. It’s a very flattering bike to ride I find.

Still haven’t got round to a dirt skirt. Would be good to hear people’s experiences of that and the 3D printed thingy.

@dawson just before I order, can I just check if one size for all frames? Mine Epic Evo is large.

@clink – Mine is a large too.

I’ve used the 3d printed one for around three years now, mentioned it on here a few times. I don’t have a 3d printer so uploaded the file on line and heh presto arrived 10 days or so later.

Found it to be really good and made a huge difference to crud getting caught up in the little concertina gap thingy but then I do ride all year round and in some right awful sloppy cr*p.

First ride out today. Got a carbon medium even though I’m 6ft, I like the smaller cockpit. Absolutely superb, swoopy, silent, climbs well. Chuffed to bits and awaiting some rubber wear to come through the post.

ps I thought the kid in Worksop was printing those skirts for silly money so I paid them £20 instead and hope that other people might do the same. It was a little black number and fitted nicely.

I bought a couple form the guy in Worksop as well, one for the bike and a spare.

Defintely recommend him if anyone’s looking for the skirt/fender thing for their Epic!

Is the ‘guy in Worksop’ the one from the Facebook link above? I just get ‘content not available’ when I click on it. I’m probably just too cool for Facebook.

That’s the one. Try this link…

https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100066913796724&name=xhp_nt__fb__action__open_user

Yep, that works, thanks!

Those using the 3d printed one – do you have images of it on the bike.

How close does it sit to the lower linkage?

It’s quite clear of the lower linkage but covers it comprehensively enough. Before I fitted mine a nasty little accumulation of gravel appeared on the linkage after a ride in the dry necessitating a bit of a going over with a hoover brush (ffs).

Right, after NBD is over I’m deferring to the proper thread.   This morning I change my Evo Pro to race spec, basically tubeless with Barzo/Mezcal and removed a bottle cage and it weighed in at 11.16kg!

Im pretty shocked how light that is considering the dropper etc.  Fun times.