Post by kirky72 on Oct 5, 2014 17:57:36 GMT
You may have already read in Euans new bike rant thread that I got cheesed off with Canyons 14 week delay so cancelled and picked up a spesh enduro expert like marmalutes (sorry for copying pal). I had looked at them earlier this year but couldn't quite justify the outlay at the time, Canyons lateness and a 1k discount helped persuade me to give the Enduro a punt.
I've had a bit of a sniffle since collecting the bike so I have just switched out a few stock parts, set it up and just been looking at its brutish beauty.
a nice fine morning and feeling a bit better so I headed over to Gisburn forest for the first ride of the bike and my first ride for 5 weeks.
as it was my first ride for a while and feeling a bit chesty along with a decidedly dodgy knee I didn't push things to hard, not on the ups anyway, and my legs and cardio gave up before the bikes capability. I didn't expect to smash to many times.
however I just checked in with strava (forgive me I'm not a strava who're however it's useful for comparison situations like this).
www.strava.com/activities/203664615
39 PBS in the first 7.5 miles, the garmins battery went at this point otherwise I'm sure there would have been many more. I was back at the car in an hour forty minutes and that allowed for lots of much needed breathers.
when I get back up to speed I'm going to fly on this baby.
mini review of the bike.
Extremely manoeuvrable for such a big bike, flicked through the tighter twisty sections really we'll, it's the same chain stay length as my whyte t129 but slacker so I don't know why it feels so much easier to flick about. Maybe down to the low bottom bracket. With the set down its easy to get around the bike and I don't feel as lofted and vulnerable as the whyte. At the end of the ride and after smashing some fairly big drops and gnarly bits I had around 20mm left according to the I ring on the shock and forks so I've now let a little bit of air out of each. I think I definitely had the shock a bit too firm and it didn't always feel plush, sometimes feeling like it skipped a bit over bumps instead of absorbing them and staying planted.
Nice and light, really ripped on the downs and flats. A bit tougher than usual on the fire road climbs but that may be more down to my 5 weeks lay off.
a little oil sprayed out of the sag valve when I let the air out during setting up the auto sag, I don't know if this as affected the performance a touch.
The avids 7 trails turned out to be the noisy version with lots of Turkey gobble from both brakes from the get go. I have the exact same brakes that I bought 2nd hand and fitted to my whyte and they have run perfectly with no noise at all. So some feckling may be in order.
only 2 pedal strikes going through the wood climb and the rock garden (whelpstone crag) to speak of, so not to bad for a test ride and getting use to a new bike with lower bb.
I quite like the spesh command post dropper, knowing you have the three heights that all do their specific job is good and takes the problem of fidgeting about and second guessing the right height out of the equation, the bad side is I'm sure it dropped from the top setting on its own one time. After warnings from lbs about the velocity of post shooting up I raised it whilst applying some arse pressure so i kind of rised with it in order to avoid an unwanted whack to the nuts.
i might go out again tomorrow just to plough down one of my favourite local descents from gorple to hurst wood.
ps. Cheers Canyon.
I've had a bit of a sniffle since collecting the bike so I have just switched out a few stock parts, set it up and just been looking at its brutish beauty.
a nice fine morning and feeling a bit better so I headed over to Gisburn forest for the first ride of the bike and my first ride for 5 weeks.
as it was my first ride for a while and feeling a bit chesty along with a decidedly dodgy knee I didn't push things to hard, not on the ups anyway, and my legs and cardio gave up before the bikes capability. I didn't expect to smash to many times.
however I just checked in with strava (forgive me I'm not a strava who're however it's useful for comparison situations like this).
www.strava.com/activities/203664615
39 PBS in the first 7.5 miles, the garmins battery went at this point otherwise I'm sure there would have been many more. I was back at the car in an hour forty minutes and that allowed for lots of much needed breathers.
when I get back up to speed I'm going to fly on this baby.
mini review of the bike.
Extremely manoeuvrable for such a big bike, flicked through the tighter twisty sections really we'll, it's the same chain stay length as my whyte t129 but slacker so I don't know why it feels so much easier to flick about. Maybe down to the low bottom bracket. With the set down its easy to get around the bike and I don't feel as lofted and vulnerable as the whyte. At the end of the ride and after smashing some fairly big drops and gnarly bits I had around 20mm left according to the I ring on the shock and forks so I've now let a little bit of air out of each. I think I definitely had the shock a bit too firm and it didn't always feel plush, sometimes feeling like it skipped a bit over bumps instead of absorbing them and staying planted.
Nice and light, really ripped on the downs and flats. A bit tougher than usual on the fire road climbs but that may be more down to my 5 weeks lay off.
a little oil sprayed out of the sag valve when I let the air out during setting up the auto sag, I don't know if this as affected the performance a touch.
The avids 7 trails turned out to be the noisy version with lots of Turkey gobble from both brakes from the get go. I have the exact same brakes that I bought 2nd hand and fitted to my whyte and they have run perfectly with no noise at all. So some feckling may be in order.
only 2 pedal strikes going through the wood climb and the rock garden (whelpstone crag) to speak of, so not to bad for a test ride and getting use to a new bike with lower bb.
I quite like the spesh command post dropper, knowing you have the three heights that all do their specific job is good and takes the problem of fidgeting about and second guessing the right height out of the equation, the bad side is I'm sure it dropped from the top setting on its own one time. After warnings from lbs about the velocity of post shooting up I raised it whilst applying some arse pressure so i kind of rised with it in order to avoid an unwanted whack to the nuts.
i might go out again tomorrow just to plough down one of my favourite local descents from gorple to hurst wood.
ps. Cheers Canyon.
i love the enduros, i have 2014 comp model as couldn't justify the extra 2 grand 
i couldnt get my hands on a small in the cyan blue/black but a specialized rep that was in my lbs could get me an american import in matt black (everything else was the same) 
?? Bin it!