muppet, thats one seriously back to front enduro, nice and light but considering the forks would you not have been better off with a stumpy or even an epic. I don’t get it!
Ireduced the travel to 140mm by retrofitting a shorter travel and eye to eye shock from Specialized. The BB is a shade over 13″ which makes it rail corners.
In this guise it weighed in at 31lbs. I’ve now put a Lyrik on and changed the wheels to Specialized Roval Traverse. Oh and I’m now running Middleburn RS7s with a Ti FSA BB. Oh and the bars are now Burgtec Ride Wide. And erm, the transmission is now XTR.
You know this picture is only about 14 months old and now I think about it, I must have changed everything bar the frame, saddle and seat pin. Oh no, hang on, Crank Bros Joplin went on after Christmas.
Here’s my 2003 Enduro – bargin off the classifieds
BB was too low as standard so I’ve swapped the shock for a longer (200mm compared to the stock 190ish mm one) one and got the gold link in the ‘slacker’ position which together sorts it out nicely – head angle is just right while the BB is now just enough higher to not be smacking my feet all the time.
Definitely not light (I reckon 31ish lbs) but it’s great fun.
No pics of mine, sadly, but it’s an ’08 Enduro SL, with the E150 fork (just serviced and buttery smooth….!) It’s essentially stock bar this;
Front tyre changed for a Rubber Queen
Time platform clipless pedals
ODI Intense Lock Ons with metal ODI end caps
Easton Havoc Bars (Wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiide!)
SDG Bel Air Ti saddle
Pure Racing seatpost, the lever version. Only just fitted, waiting to be used in anger.
Oh, and Matchmaker clamps!
I run it with the flip flop link in the slack position,& recently fitted a Fox 36 FLOAT fork,with the travel reduced to 130mm courtesy of an internally fitted spacer in the fork bought off mojo.
I call it my ‘Demo 5’!
Akira and feltmountain, you have your brake rotors on back to front. there is a risk they may fail when run like that. Not nice to have your front wheel suddenly lock up under braking !
thanks Andy – sort of replaced the Enduro with a Blur LT which suits most of what I mainly ride more, but I still want a “big bike” for occassional Alps and Spain trips, plus the odd DH-lite session locally.
if you’ve already got a lighter FS then it’s a no brainer. SX trail upto 2008. the 2009 one is supposed to be more like a slimmed down Big Hit than a beefed up enduro and is quite heavy.
Think spesh were recently doing 2007 or 2008 sx t frames for about £650 ish
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