Evil Releases New 140mm 29er - The Offering
The Offering is the newest addition to Evil's lineup, a 140mm 29er that's intended to sit nicely between the 120mm Following and the 161mm Wreckoning. According to Evil, "the Offering ended up being a unique specimen featuring some attributes and ride qualities we have been wanting to add for years but needed to wait for the right moment."
The big news is the Offering's steeper seat angle compared to Evil's previous models - with a 140mm fork it sits at 77-degrees, a number that taller riders will be especially happy to see. It's also possible to run the Offering with a 150 or even a 160mm fork depending what type of terrain a rider is planning on tackling.
The big news is the Offering's steeper seat angle compared to Evil's previous models - with a 140mm fork it sits at 77-degrees, a number that taller riders will be especially happy to see. It's also possible to run the Offering with a 150 or even a 160mm fork depending what type of terrain a rider is planning on tackling.
Offering Details
• Wheelsize: 29"
• Travel: 140mm
• Carbon frame
• Head angle: 65.6° - 66.6° depending on fork, geo setting
• Integrated chain guide
• Clearance for 2.6" tire
• Price: $5,699 - $7,399, Frame only: $3,099 USD
• www.evil-bikes.com
• Wheelsize: 29"
• Travel: 140mm
• Carbon frame
• Head angle: 65.6° - 66.6° depending on fork, geo setting
• Integrated chain guide
• Clearance for 2.6" tire
• Price: $5,699 - $7,399, Frame only: $3,099 USD
• www.evil-bikes.com
The reach on a size large is 482mm, right in line with the most modern bikes currently hitting the market. There's also room to run up to a 2.6" tire, and two drain ports have been added near the lower shock mount to give all that loam somewhere to go during those sloppy rides. And yes, there's room to mount a water bottle cage inside the front triangle. Phew.
The frame only is priced at $3,099 USD, with complete bikes starting at $5,699. Want to go with a coil shock? Evil offer a Push 11.6 upgrade option that adds $900 to the final price.
Geometry
The Offering uses Evil's Dave Weagle-designed Delta suspension layout, a link driven single pivot, for its 140mm of rear travel.
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Many are ill equipped to do so. They fall into resentment reannacting the archetypes of the opressed and the opressor, the tyrant and the slave, but also the paradise lost. Nostalgia is always present in those menta constructs, however the individual remains unconscious of the fact that past times were not better times, his awareness was different. He lived in the dream world of ignorance, neither could he ride nor could he afford the top stuff, so he bought an old bike.
Hence I bring the 26” freeride bike as the archetypal artifact of those who resist the reality, who shout out loud on comment boards on how have taken the wrong direction. This mythical bicycle is the paradise lost. The one that opressors have destroyed.
Since Evil has such naming, as you accurately noticed, it was a good occasion for me to form such compound of concepts. I believe many who upvoted it did not realize the true meaning. But that is what comedy is for. Tell them the truth without them realizing their tragedy. That is inability to reconcile with their past an take the painful step forward to embrace the new reality and deal with it, as a result becoming heroes. Only to come to yet another closed door that will require from them to begin this process again and again. Here we come to the biggest tragedy, the death of Garden of Eden. Realization that we don’t areive anywhere, we merely move through time and space. If such 26” 180 bicycle would be coonjured certain individuals would face the ultimate horror, that this bike changed nothing. The dream come true is often the worst nightmare.
Bikes are great to ride tho!
Too many hardworking folks who treat their employees and customers right to give these guys my hard earned money.
And you absolutely should sue them.
Especially if they hit you with a cease and desist after your posts (which I imagine they will).
Using a public forum to express your grievences against a company while claiming you work for a competitor is unprofessional. That kind of stuff gets noted.
The Revolt was also one of the fastest bikes I've ever owned. The Following has a following and I'm sure it's for good reason. The bike looks mean as f*ck, I bet it's as fun and fast as it looks, but after all the reviews and my own experiences with the customer service side of Evil, I'll never own another Evil bike, which is a shame.
Also, if you wanna see more industry experience with evil exploiting athletes, watch the Cam Zink documentary. While talking about sponsorship and Evil he says "never saw a dollar from them, fronted my whole travel budget again." He rode for them for free. This was the year after winning joyride, rampage, and winning the FMB overall. Not a good look for Evil in my book.
Thought I read somewhere that it’s the official bike of the church of satan :-p
Perhaps a more accurate name is The Duplicate. It looks like every other model currently being sold. They could make an xxxs version and the call it Mini-Me.
????
As a couple of other people have also suggested, what you are doing with these posts although you think is probably a service of some kind to the biking community, is actually doing a massive dis-service to yourself.
I’ve worked in the freelance media/ad industry for 18 years. Most of the time projects and relationships go well, everyone’s happy, and your bank account is grinning. Sometimes though, shit goes sour, relationships break down and money never comes.
In my humbled experience, whichever way the cookie crumbles, the responsibility for your own protection and path in a client relationship is always entirely your own, and no one else’s. If it f*cks up, it’s because you didn’t put the boundaries in place to keep it sunny side up. Your responsibility.
So, when shit does hit the fan, what you do is look at what went wrong, learn, be humble, and change your process for next time. That’s professional. What you absolutely for the mother of every f*ck ever given don’t do is go out in the public domain years later and lay bare your victimised story of your mistake (yes, in brutal reality your mistake), in gruesome detail, over repeated posts, from only your perspective, exposing private business interactions and defacing and slandering the company you fell out with in front of the eyes of the world.
That, Jasper, is the most incredibly, deeply, purposefully unprofessional thing any supposed professional could ever do.
It seems, despite saying you put your bottom line first these days, what you are actually doing is putting your ass on the line, again. You haven’t learnt your lesson from the first time round.
My advice to you, with many many trusts more experience learning the hard way, is remove all your posts immediately, get some perspective on your actions, and never pull this shit again.
Because if I was a bike brand owner/manager, and I needed content producing, and I read this page, I’d see you as an unprofessional risk to my company, and there is no way on God’s earth I would ever go anywynear you. And I’m an atheist.
Heed good advice bro
A nice bike, on the other hand, is totally in line with what I'd expect.
Whilst on your walk back to reality, the real questions you should be challenging yourself and your consumer purchasing choices over are, maybe, where and how does Apple source it’s rare earth minerals that make your iPhone your tapping away on so riotously? Where does Ikea source the wood from that your so so comfy bed you’re reading this post from is manufactured from? And how many communities of animals were displaced in the process? The beef burger you’ll eat tonight whilst reading over these posts (likely giving you indigestion because eating + rage is not good for your tummy, yo), how many rivers are in drought from being shyphoned of water to feed your beautiful beef burger supply vehicle?
(That’s a cow. Btw)
My point? These are bikes. They are toys for us privileged few, and we are in no uncertain way privileged to be even contemplating these kind of toys. And these are incredibly minor mistakes in the grand global scheme of business behaviour and economics. If you really want to be a warrior and opinionist about business behaviour, then please take your energy to a more worthwhile and important place.
Maybe they didn’t have the money then to pay you, but they do now. One bike now would be a drop in the ocean for them now.
They should give you a offering with enve and push upgrades to set things straight...
creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/us
freemusicarchive.org/music/voyageurs/Live_at_WFMU_on_Liz_Bergs_Show_on_August_22_2011/Voyageurs_-_04_-_Slime_Patrol
Its fairly clear. If you made money off that video then you owe the artists a fee.
Also the OP took full responsibility for not protecting himself properly. If these stories do not come out into the public view then Evil has the opportunity to take advantage of others who do not go in eyes wide open. Perfect information (everything available to everyone at the same time) leads to a perfect market. For those that are willing to accept the risks after knowing their practices have no excuses. Evil changing their practices and even possibly making things right due to market pressures is a result of a well functioning market.
The long and short of it is that you just failed to complete the work. And despite us having to pay other people to finish - you still got paid too. So we square.
I’m not sure where all this started up for you. Since we posted the first Kyle Norbraten Wreckoning LB edit you’ve been hammering some of us with emails and trolling us on social media. And lately you’ve taken this to new levels with 4 or 5 sh*t talking emails per day late this week and now this thread on PinkBike? We get it haters gotta hate, but there are always two sides to every story.
We were never anything but respectful to you. In creative services you have to remember that the client is always right. You aren’t making some film school art project you’re making a commercial video that is designed to highlight the specific attributes of the bike. If you can’t accomplish the ask, you will be replaced with someone who can. Sorry but that’s just life.
Now I’m sure you’re going to keep chirping but before you go too far, remember what you are trying to do for a career - which usually revolves around filming top secret pre-launch product and riders... and all you’re proving to everyone is that you can’t keep your mouth shut.
That said, we appreciate the publicity Pinkbike has given to the launch of the Offering. It’s a rad bike and we hope you like it.
Thanks evil for making my next bike!
I had a feeling this is the kind of situation that you were in. It’s incredibly rare the freelancer just doesn’t get paid for the great job they did, and more often the case they just didn’t do the job right and can’t swallow their pride to accept their failure at working for their client, and consequent (fair) lack of payment.
Sounds to me like you were fair as fair all things considered.
Small brands aren’t ever going to be perfect, they are going to make mistakes because it’s damn tough and damn expensive to do what you guys do, making awesome toys for us to play with. Maybe all of us here on Pinkbike could start giving all the small guys, Evil and all the others, a bit of slack when they get it a bit wrong, and a bit more of the benefit of the doubt when one or two people start talking them down.
We’re all friends here after all.
Ps, thanks for your bikes Evil. I’ve owned many bikes over the years, but the Wreckoning absolutely rips every other bike I’ve ridden to pieces. And everyone who rides mine comes away saying the same thing. Keep doing your awesome thing ????
I just spent the extra bit and ordered the sb130 frame at those prices.
And @evil-bikes just claimed they gave you a frame as payment, for THIS project.
Which one is it boys? You can’t both be right.
I have a feeling I know who is playing some word games here, and but lets hear it straight from the sources.
"Working for Specialized now so who cares but I thought I'd enlighten the audience as to how some people in the industry choose to behave."
Evil’s post makes it sound like they DID pay you for the Following video with a frame. They did not.
They paid you for an entirely different video- which you did not even call out in your post- therefore irrelevant and straw man on Evil’s part.
I’d be suing their hipster capri’s off
You must live on the other side of the world where you aren’t familiar with evil screwing over numerous people.
Hahaha!
Sounds like you’ve never really experienced the true love of Specialized, which of course is the love of money and the lack of caring for its employees. Knowing many others at other companies I know that other companies treat their people far better than the one you kinda sorta represent.
And before you think I was some nobody there, if you have ever toured the company you’ve seen my work in a very large portion of the warehouse. Hell, my handprint and name is in concrete there if you look hard enough.
I’ve ridden many bikes. I know how bikes ride. I could care less about the inner workings or politics of a company who’s bike I’ll own for a year or two. If the bike rides well I’ll buy it. For me, Evil bikes ride well, so I will continue to buy them. Sorry for your situation man, after reading Evil’s side it kinda sounds like you didn’t fulfill your contract how Evil wanted, so maybe they didn’t compensate you how you wanted... that’s business homie. Maybe you should do what so many others in the bike industry have done and move on?
@jasperwesselman:
Good place to catch up on dirt, accusations and allegations.
Love it. Keep it coming.
Would love to hear more about the whole Spec slander. Will wait for the next Spec bike review.
2. Did evil provide a way to get replacements for the broken parts ? At which cost ?
Sight C1 5199$ with lower specs than the evil
Who the f*ck upvotes this kind of idiotic comment?
a pink The Getrichdeceiving edition
a blue The Innocentlynching edition
and a red The Havehadourfillofthisimmoralbs edition
just a hunch, but I’d expect red to be the #1 seller based on current trending
Thanks for all the hard work publishing and doing articles man.
read.dmtmag.com/i/450545-february-1-2015/23?
And @onemind123, I'm not sure what you mean by 'regular guy traits', but I worked in bike shops as a mechanic for 12 years and drive a 1994 4Runner - that seems pretty regular to me.
PS I'm in no way implying that Evil bikes are garbage. I think the Wreckoning is the best looking mountain bike since the 26" carbon Wilson.
You and your colleagues are very fortunate to ride the best of the best on a regular basis, and not have to for out any money from your pocket to do that. But you are not part of the regular guy group. When was the last time you have had to make a bike related purchase based off just reading info off of internet forums?
Sometimes it really do be like that.
The 140 fork in low(not x low) states 77 per evils website.
just wanted to be “comment cool”, as a knee jerk reaction to the interest of Thai new bike.
I’m an SC fanboy and love my Hightower LT and Tallboy, don’t intend on selling them any time soon.
Consider yourself lucky
Low = clips roots and rocks
X-Low = ankle breaker
Is this true? Why? I always though a steep seat tube was mostly beneficial to shorter riders.
geometrygeeks.bike/bike/evil-the-offering-2019