Protour

He is faster on his trail bike than he was on a DH bike, Minnar couldn't even keep up with him. An awesome podium with one of the best DH racers of all time and one of the best 4x racers ever, and Jerome has been the best at enduro until Fabien retired from DH.

"reliable performance at his fingertips everytime he rides." Lol! After they have warrantied literally thousands of Elixer brakes for reliability issues SRAM thinks we will believe their marketing bs? Change the Elixer name if you've really made them reliable, because the word Elixer will always bring to mind the image of the most unreliable, inconsistent, and mysterious brakes ever in mountain bike history. Don't touch that reach adjustment...something bad might happen... Even with some of the new ones I haven't been able to swap out brake pads without taking some oil out, then you typically will have to re-bleed them to get them to work properly. So frustrating to work with compared to Shimano, hope, magura, etc. And the modulation sucks compared to Shimano, and until SRAM finally went to four pistons for Elixers they were all under-powered.

A plastic downtube guard is just another place for mud to get into. The routing is fine, and you can put a zip tie around your downtube and around the cables, next to the bb, to keep them closer.

you could build a lighter DH bike for less but it wouldn't be as much fun or as useful and versatile. It's definitely an Enduro if you can pedal it up, but a heavy duty one.

No, but if you searched hard you could maybe find a shop that still has one.

The frame design is completely different from the SX, so it makes sense to call it an Enduro since it resembles their other Enduro models more. This is the bike I want more than any other, especially if they improved the climbing performance.

I called it too! Surprised Nico wasn't up there, but the French still sorta dominated.

Some enduro courses might favor 29, but doesn't look like this is one of them. Maybe even the 650b won't live up to the hype on real tracks, let alone the 29er. If the pros don't all adopt to it, I doubt most of the general public will want to. I've never seen Lopes get beat so badly in an enduro, but I guess this race has the best competition ever assembled.