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 | No matter how good the suspension is (on an enduro bike) it's never going to be as good as a downhill bike, and yet you're riding similar sorts of tracks. So I think the geometry has to be absolutely perfect, tailor-made for each rider, you have to feel really comfortable on that bike, because the geometry is what's going to get you through, not how well the travel is working. For me personally I like a slack head angle and a low bottom bracket, maybe even as slack as 64 even on some tracks, that comes from the fact that enduro pretty much is a downhill race, but you have to ride to the top. - Dan Atherton |
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| The rest of the year is looking like pretty specialist enduro schedule. I'm going to be doing all the Italian Superenduro stuff, a lot of the Megavalanche stuff and some of the races out here in America like Downieville, stuff like that. It's another challenge I've done a lot of things in my career and enduro is going to be the next kind of stage for me. - Dan Atherton |
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| I think as far as enduro goes as a sport it's very young, and it hasn't kind of identified itself yet. When people race downhill you really know what the fastest products are on the market, and you really know how to set your bike up. But with enduro all the races are different... and with that comes a massive range of bike setups. Some races you'll be running single ply tires and another race you'll be running full on downhill tires. It really does depend on the track and the riders preferences. - Dan Atherton |
His sponsors seem to think so.
The Atherton's know how to play the game and fair play to them- no-one else has the media side of things as dialed as them
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