Heres mine:

It replaced my 2006 spesh enduro – bought the frame and swapped the bits.

The enduro was such a good bike I wondered if I was doing the right thing.

Verdict – 99.5% as good as the enduro on the way down
300% as good as the enduro on the ups. I upgraded to the RP23BV with propedal which was a good decision in my view.

Overall VERY happy with it. Comes in just over 30lbs compared to 38lbs for the enduro.

I'm 6'4" and the XL is a little shorter than the L enduro but suits me ok (same TT lenth but arse to hand reach shortened by the converging HT/ST angles (they were both 68.5 on the enduro) the heckler has a much steeper SA as most bikes do these days)

what?

I've just got a new heckler with 2.5s looks like it'll take 2.8 easily

I swapped the old enduro for a SC Heckler last week in the attempt to go more 'do it all' I have to say I'm impressed. Good climbing angles. 30lbs so not too heavy. Only one slight criticism, I'd probably slacken the HA by 1 to 1.5 degrees. Apart from that, goes up well, down well and can be ridden all day. I'm a happy chappy so far.

I used to be shit, but I was brave. Now I'm shit and a coward.

Recently discovered a 35foot deep bombhole in the clyne woods near Swansea. I used to ride it in flip flops on my Saracen rigid with no helmet. I stood at the top, padded, helmeted and 6" 'all mountained' up and…… Yep bottled it.

1993 Saracen bactrax all kiddie seated out
2005 Spesh enduro
2009 On-one summerseason
2011 Santa Cruz Heckler – picking up on Saturday! – transferring bits from enduro (bits are new not 2005!)

The 06 enduro has a steep (slack for 2006) head angle. 68.5 or 69.5 (withe the then 150mm 36 fork) degrees depending on what shock shuttle you had. So is still steeper than the '10 bike if you fitted the 180 36's. So I recon it would work fine.

It will still be a shite climber as the seat angle is way too slack for easy climbing. However it may be slightly more shite at climbing now. I recon your not using it for climbing though with that setup!

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Little things, little minds….

I run a 2005 enduro with a dhx 5.0 coil. The bike suspension performance is much better than the air unit I replaced it with (albeit that was the stock 5th element jobbie) the downside us definateky the weight. It's coming in at 36lbs.

Living near Caerphilly I'm smack in the middle of some excellent natural welsh terrain, 5 miles from cwmcarn and within 10 miles of 4or5 of the dragon downhill courses.

I've worked in London on and off over the last 10 years. I've ridden trails in south downs & the chilterns on a par with my local natural trails. My favourite is a figure of 8 killer loop that appeared in MBR about 10 years ago. Starts from the checkers pub in prestwood.

New fox 36 180mm?

Love my summerseason. Even tho the enduro is awesome, I ride the SS 90% of the time. Suits me perfectly.

Looks like I'll be the black sheep. I think the 456 carbon looks fantastic. Would seriously consider one if I wasn't so happy with my summerseason.

You'd do well to beat the Crug Mawr descent on the black mountains killer loop.

Tioga Farmer john?

Wry hey the good old days! Seat angle slacker than the head angle! What a cracking bike.

Cwmcarn. Doable in 1.5 hours 20 mins from the Severn bridge.

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Thanks for the replies & I agree with all that. I'll get a test bike before I spend 3k!
Just curious that I've not seen a single one of them on the trails.

Has anyone actually bought one??

Question stands… Anyone out there OWN or TESTED one of these? I'd be grateful for your experiences!

Thanks

No I'm sure the geometrry of the 05 and 06 bikes was identical. Just kit changes for the 06. twas 69.5 or 68.5 if I remember rightly. I think the 05&06 SX trail was identical also & changed to a slacker frame with more travel in 07.

Agree best bike spesh ever made. They are coming somewhere close with the 2010 bike if they can sort the fork out. I have a 2005 version. DHX 5 coil option. Mine weighs in at 36lbs with the original 36 talas.

Interesting note about removing the travel reducer. Does that count for the coil ?

And, yes, I snapped the non drive side stay. Spesh replaced the stay only but service was excellent.

Unscrew gromit at the top of one of the stanchions. It's like a plastic hex bolt

And forgot:

I'm 21stone and I have a 2005 enduro & a 2009 summerseason. Both have freeridey type rims relatively big tyres & dinner plates for discs. Both have had a hiding and are fine c

Dunno why they are so problematic but nearly every review I've read of the new spesh enduro with the 2 step lyrics, the bike has been marked down because the fork has stopped working properly.

I've got a 3.5 year old and a 4 month lads. Looking forward to them being old enough!

It's probably coming from the nearest marin!

I have 2.35 hard compound high rollers on all of my bikes all year round.

We went to bluestone quite good but far too hilly for small kids to ride bikes around.

Me 130kgs bike 13kgs

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It works, I had an email from Stevo a couple of days ago. He said that they'd had email problems but ok now.

If you want to be a bit more adventurous a cheap build around an onone 456 or a merlin malt would give you a decent & upgradeable bike for about £600

You will probably be ok for the 5 and other offerings with an RP23 shock. You will be about 18.5 stone with a full camelback & gear on.

I have had trouble as 6'4" 20.5 stone – say 21.5 with gear on. I've tried Orange 5, new spesh enduro, lapierre spicy, cube fritzz, mondraker dune & some others. All of these bikes i need to pump the shock over the reccomended max 300psi (about 360) to get the sag right.

The only one that would suit was the Orang Alpine 160 as the travel ratio means 260psi & I'm good.

As the whole point of this was a lighter bike (current 05 enduro with coil is 36lbs) I decided to stay with the enduro as the alpine was only about 2lbs lighter.

I recon the cutoff between "normal" and fat boys bikes is about 19 stone.

TBH I think that would give more risk of breaking the hanger off so don't really want to try. I assume on one have a customer services dept I can get hold of?

I did think of that but there doesn't seem to be a great thickness of metal there and I'm worried that if I do try filing it and the hanger subsequently breaks I'll be knackered.

I assume it's a manufacturing fault as was there from new and no info came with frame to say you can't use hope hubs

Hope pro 2 hubs with DT EX500 rims. Just bought a back wheel for the summerseason. I've had the same spec wheel on the enduro for 3 years and never needed to service or true it. Bear in mind I'm 21 stone and you can see they are pretty tough.

£160ish on CRC/Wiggle etc…

Is 140mm long travel?

Is 140mm long travel?

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