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hi guys mark from singletrack here i'm
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in the woods with a brand new bike from
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what i've got over here behind me is the
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all-new specialized status
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okay let's have a run through what this
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is this is specialized
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no nonsense big hitting 160 mil travel
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uh trail bike all mountain bike
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party bike it's entirely up to you what
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it's made of specializes m5 aluminium
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which means it's not particularly light
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but it is very strong
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version which is the size it goes from
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one two three four five
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i guess you call the s3 medium
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so that would take the range from
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traditionally extra small up to extra
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what else can tell you the reach on this
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and the chainstay length at the back
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that's really quite short and that's
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a mullet bike yes it's a party bike
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it's a 27.5 at the back and it's 29
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at the front we've got a slacking doodah
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this is a really slack bike
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there's a flip chip down below which i'm
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and that will actually alter the
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that will raise the bottom bracket by
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about a centimeter and that will steepen
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up the head angle by about half a degree
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but that's half a degree between friends
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so that's about the shape of it but what
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about what it's wearing
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well at the front we've got a fox 36
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rhythm fork that's not officially
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available aftermarket rhythm is their
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uh signature range at the back we've got
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the fox dpx2 giving 160 ml of travel at
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it's a very symmetrical bike it is
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fsr in the back in the linkage
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there's no fancy offset linkages on this
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bike it's symmetrical all the way
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we've got a x fusion cable operated
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and we've got sram coder four part discs
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with 200 mil discs front and rear we've
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nx eagle 1 by 12 group set going on
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but after that pretty much everything
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else this specialized
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own kit that's the tyres
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to wheels to the 800 millimeter bars
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because they're really trying to keep
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the cost down on this
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now you'll also notice that i haven't
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actually talked about this particular
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version of this bike that's because
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there isn't any other model this is it
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specialized are just bringing this one
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certainly to the uk market
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and that brings me neatly to the price
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how much for this hardcore
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trail ripper of a bike
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oh you might be pleasantly surprised i
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this bike the only model that's
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uh specialized bringing into the uk
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which i think is a bit of a billy
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so yes there's nothing on here that
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screams expensive overly expensive shall
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but that's because what specializes i've
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tried to do with this bike
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is to make it as cheap as possible but
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as strong as possible
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and so the component choice isn't just
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whatever is at the cheapest end of the
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they've gone for stuff that might be
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but it's definitely strong the wheels
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are specialized owned with butcher grid
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compound tyres on which are not bad at
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they come with tubes out the box and
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ride them today with tubes
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but with the bike came valves for
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because these tyres and these wheels are
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tubeless ready so you can just take
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tubes out stick your tubeless compound
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this bike is definitely built to take a
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so what's it for well with this geometry
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efficient it is not this but who cares
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when you can have so much fun on gnarly
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so okay climbing's not the strong point
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with that head angle being so slack
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when you start going up you do feel the
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front end start to wander around a bit
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that's not what this bike's for going up
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its version of uplift who cares how it
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this bike is all about the down and the
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and the rocky that's all it wants to do
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this gunmetal gray sort of understated
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finish you just know that it's gonna get
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it's gonna get scratched it's going to
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get scarred and i reckon
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that the more of those that this bike
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gets the cooler it's going to look
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i hope you forgive me for kind of mixing
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mountain bike brand metaphors here we're
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going to steal a famous saying from
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mr bontrager who said famously
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cheap light strong pick any two well i
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think specialized have definitely
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taken that to heart with this bike
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they've definitely picked
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cheap and very very strong
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so you could say that this is not a bike
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designed for all-day trail riding
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but then again i've been out
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today on this now i think i'm coming up
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four four and a half hours of riding
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i'm not ready to go home i don't want to
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i'm not going home oh yeah i'm having
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you know with this bike this
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and above all the price point that
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specializes bringing it to market
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they they're gonna sell a lot of these
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i mean they're going to sell a lot
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yeah the market has of late probably had
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of ridiculously priced high-end bikes
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and that does have an effect on the
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of high quality mountain biking
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it does price a lot of people out the
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this bike i think goes some way to
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that problem this bike is going to bring
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a lot of new and enthusiastic
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talent into our sport
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i love it absolutely love it
