How many different ways can you set up a bike? Well, it all depends on your riding background. Christina asked some of B.C.'s best downhill riders how they are setting their bikes up to race enduro in the first event of the Clif Crankworx Summer Series.
funny how everyone says the Sight's suspension design is not well suited for a coil shock... and then all the pros run it with a coil shock. are they still running 185x52.5 or what? I dont see any progressive springs here.
don't know the leverage ratio of the sight but the guy at the end is running a 600# spring on his sight....that's a crazy stiff spring, maybe to overcome a lack of progression on the frame ?
@Charlotroy: its just a high leverage frame so it needs the higher spring rate than a bike with a longer shock. The frame has some progression but not loads so coils just about work and there are progressive coils available if necessary.
@Crampagnolo I recently went over to coil on my sentinel which has even less progression than the Sight and i've been loving it, even without a cascade link. Maybe its because these high leverage bikes feel super supple off the top. I don't really get how these guys deal with the rebound of such heavy springs though when they don't weigh all that much.
Yeah well the Stumpy isn't supposed to be great with a coil either but they sell one with a coil and Finn rides with one so maybe it doesn't make all that much difference?
@Charlotroy: "The leverage rate goes from 3.2 to 2.6, a change of 18.75%" from the "first ride" here on PB. That seems like enough for a coil to me. I think the team only run 185x55 because RS don't appear to make a 185x52.5 coil.
Interested in this topic because I've just bought a Sight.
@shredjekyll: whyever, on 29ers they stopped differentiating the trail from enduro bikes by travel... Anyway, listening to the video they call their bikes mostly trail bikes...
@anchoricex: I have the A2 in purple and its a beast of a bike. It absolutely rips, its long though and took awhile to get used to but is super stable. It is a great bike for my local bike park with decent sized jump lines, nothing like a line though.
@anchoricex: No i haven't, but have been really curious. I have found the stroke of the sight is really progressive and i didn't really want coil due to the lack of progression it has. But since they're racing it, I am quite curious.
@markcorrigan: Trek kinks the top-tube on the S and XS frames to achieve a lower stand-over height for smaller riders. It does look pretty ugly though.
The frame has some progression but not loads so coils just about work and there are progressive coils available if necessary.
Interested in this topic because I've just bought a Sight.
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