What are your thoughts and sizing on these bikes £2 k from on one for full bike with cc double barrel air and reverb post seems a good deal but how do they ride and weight??
I love mine, bought frame only back in may an it’s built up pretty tough with 36 vans on the front and dhx coil rear, saint cranks, 1×9, hadley/flow wheels, elixir brakes, reverb and it weighs 33lb which I don’t think is bad at all! It ride really well, climbs nicely and great downhill. I prefer it to the 2006 enduro I had for years and the mythic rune I had previously!
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I used to have a s-works 2006 enduro with 36’s and dhx and loved it and you reckon your el guapo is better???
What size enduro did you have ? And what size is your el guapo?
Size medium in both, slightly longer top tube on the el guapo, I think it climbs a bit better than the enduro and going down is at least as good if not a bit better, just feels very balanced and well controlled both up an down. The reason I got rid of the enduro was that I snapped the chainstay and lost a bit of faith in the frame, they look a bit beefier on the titus which is a bonus.
I’m 5’10”, inside leg of 30″. I’m in Sheffield so ride peaks, sherwood pines and
Cannock fairly regularly if you can make it to one of them you’re welcome to have a go. Email is in profile if
You want to sort something out?
Funnily enough I also replaced my ’06 Enduro for an ’09 El Guapo after snapping a chainstay. I preferred the Titus, and I don’t thing there have been sweeping geometry changes since then. I am 5’10, and have M in both.
However, having paid top dollar (£1600) for an ’09 frame before Titus went bust, the shine was somewhat removed for me when On-One took over and started knocking them out for £600!
Anyway, brand snobbery aside, its a great frame for the price…
I haven’t done many all day rides on it, but a few over 4 hours and its been fine, with my fitness and gearing choice the limiting factors, no reason with a few choice parts and air suspension front and back you could get near the 30lb mark!
very good. comfy and climbs well. only thing i miss is not having a lockout on stock shock(s). mine’s around 30lb with no real effort to be light (pro2 flow etc).
Bearings will be standard at a guess (and so available from your friendly neighbourhood bearing stockist), can’t imagine they will have specced “custom” bearings on a £599 frame TBH.
what fork are you chaps running on yours in order to get a reasonably light(ish) build? i can’t decide what to go with and i’m planning on getting one of these for this summer…
There’s one for sale on eBay at the moment if you don’t mind nearly new.
Can’t remember the details, think it had a reverb though – I was watching it but reckon it’s going to go well over my budget.
Or if you’re wanting a cheap complete in large maybe check out my ad 😉
the reason I’m getting rid is it doesn’t suit ne as an all day ride – that’s a function of the size more than the bike though. At 6’4″ i find it a bit too short to be comfy for me. Goes down hills like a rocket mind, and a very fun ride.
Love mine. Have done some longer rides on it but nothing mega yet. It’s a bit heavy and 2.4 supertacky Maxxis tyres are never going to roll well but it goes downhill brilliantly so i can live with everything else.
Mine has Fox 36 talas on it and if i was buying it again i would have got a float rather than a talas as i don’t use the travel adjust because of the pedal strike issue being worse with the fork wound down.
Spares wise watch the horst link pivot as they have changed the design from a captive nut to circular nut and mine fell out 2 rides in and couldn’t source one locally, it wasn’t in the standard bag of bolts that on one do for the EG and they had to take one off another frame, but it took a bit of persuading to get them to do it, but they did in the end so i was grateful.
Also if you have an EG with a DBair and are stuggling to get all the travel then there is a warranty upgrade to a high flow inner aircan that TF can do. Just had it done to mine and it is loads better at using all it’s travel
It is mate, thinking of moving on from the Five? Had it since August and took a while to get it all dialled in but there now and love it but its much more of a winch up and plummet down kind of bike than my Stumpy was. If you want a go, give us a shout.
oh yeah, my very first complaint: no bottle cage mounts. room for one on downtube but isn’t, if you’re handy with rivnuts or strap-ons maybe :p no room in middle of frame.
it’s a bike that can be built to handle almost anything i guess but it is looong, and also low if you’re on an early v3, but i think they raised it up to 0 drop now.
@Pridds, thanks for the information. I spent a while fettling with the shock in the alps to try to get the last of the travel. No matter how hard I hit things I was getting the same results.
When you say call them do you mean TF or On One?
Sorry for the thread hijack! FWIW I still love the bike and would wholeheartedly recommend it.
Fwiw at 87kg wanting a more DH setup i have no issues with the monarch. Sure a ccdb would be “better” but dunno about worth it? Everyone raves about them, whereas some folk don’t get on with the monarch i think.
depends how tight the budget is, if you can spare the 200 I’d probably go for to avoid future wondering “what if”. But then what would 200 spent elsewhere get you…(or a weekend away riding it somewhere fun!)