UR Team owner Fabien Cousine and his Polygon Siskiu 29. Fabien is originally from France but now resides in British Columbia.
Georgia Astle may win the award for best looking bike on the Crankworx Summer Series circuit with her custom painted Devinci Spartan 29.
Mackay Vezina is riding the new 29" Giant Reign with a coil shock set up for the Enduro here in Silver Star Bike Park. Originally from California, Vezina now calls BC home.
Kirk Mcdowall is BC born and bred and is running his Devinci Spartan 29.
Loenie Picton calls Whistler BC home and is riding her Liv Hail paired with DVO suspension.
Originally from Spain, Ainhoa has been living in Squamish BC for the last 5 years and joined the Canyon Collective Team this year. Ainhoa is racing Enduro on her Canyon Strive.
Miranda Miller and her Kona Process 153 with the all new Rockshox Zeb up front.
Finn Iles opting for the more versatile Stumpjumper over the Enduro big bike.
Another contender for best looking bike of the week. Henry Fitzgerald's Norco Sight 29 in team edition sparkles.
Lucy Schick is the current EWS U21 champ so will be one to watch this week. Here she is with her Norco Sight 29.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKfX4P5Nvgo
I'm from the UK,lived in BC for 2 years and now live in NZ, but you'd never know that from the little Kiwi flag next to my name. Kiwizak may have traveled and ridden all over the world for all you know. Don't assume.
@2d-cutout: I was indeed being sarcastic, maybe its my kiwi humor!
As for the Enduro pedaling poorly, you seem to be the only person to ride one with that opinion, but I am sure you learned everything about the bike from 45 seconds in a parking lot. I couldn't possibly have a better idea of how they all compare since I have hundreds of miles on each of them back to back.
But, you go ahead and keep arguing "My bike is the BEST on the planet"
& don’t get me wrong the S Enduro is rad! It just doesn’t pedal as well as the Evil Following, Revel Rail, or SC Megatower, yet alone a true 140/150 trail bike.
Can these be purchased anywhere? I want them on my Process XL if its a bolt on...
Asking my local dealer is not an alternative. Because there is none.
Both crashes were on downhill turns, on the same trail actually, just different locations on it.
The handling deficit you note is nothing to do with the wheel base and is probably all as a result of the short chain stay length. My XL Sight runs a 445 mm chain stay and it nails tight uphill switch backs like a boss (as does the Pole Stamina 180 and several other bikes with balanced rear ends).
Its a bummer. I've tried to talk to Kona about it too. They seem reluctant to even give details about it and when they acknowledge a question regarding that setup they are still not particularly excited about it.
I do know about the rumors of a "Process X" coming out soon, its supposedly updated, longer and 63.5 degree HA. I really hope its not the bike Miranda is holding, because that looks like a tweaked 153. They owe the bike world a reworked bike with better geo (STA, CS length, slacker HA) and that bike looks like a normal 153 with a longer fork and grafted rear end.
I have a gen1 process 153 that I'll never sell because given current bikes it feels like a long travel dirt jumper. It is super jibby and cant be beat in some flowy jump trails. My only gripe is that it starts to really suck (as mentioned above) when you have to get to bar humping through tight uphill tech. Being on a 2020 sight with longer wheelbase now I cannot believe how much even a little more CS length makes climbing significantly easier and less involved.
You got a coil on it?
I'm 6'1", and on a size L Process 153 AL. I'm split between regret that I didn't go with the XL, and relief because I am on the L. Because while I feel I could use more reach on the downhills... but then the difference between front center and rear center length would get even more lopsided than they are now.
The short chainstays make it harder than I'd like to weight the front. Even with a 50mm stem.
Short chainstays make the bike feel lively, its true... but they also make it feel twitchier at speed. Case in point, both Miranda, and Connor are running longer rear chainstays on their Process race bikes.
And... I'm not claiming I"m anywhere near as fast as them. I'm not, I'm a peasant, but a peasant who thinks he would benefit from a more centered position on the bike.
I ride mine as a trail bike. So I pedal up everything.
From the sound of it, I'm also pretty far under your skill level. I've only been riding for 1.5yrs, and just starting to dabble in black trails. I'm sending 4-6ft drops now, but larger jumps still mess with my mind a bit.
I think I'd really love the extra reach on the XL. The 50mm stem was an attempt to give me some more space on the size L. I've also slammed my stem, even though it was more comfortable with the spacers under it, but I found I cornered better with some spacers removed and dropping my stack height some. I'm assuming just because it gets more weight on the front tire.
I've thought about both 170mm cranks, and fork, just haven't done either yet.
But yeah, if Kona released a long chainstay kit for the Process, I'd be really interested.
It should also provide a little bit more travel, I wonder how it transform the bike.
linkage-driven single pivot, aka four bar: 2
Split pivot: 2
Horst link: 4
twin mini link (Maestro): 1
twin mini link (VPP): 1
(plus no need for Levy´s nipples on this content)