SPOTTED: Prototype Evil - Crankworx Whistler 2015
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 Aaron Bradford's prototype Evil with 27.5'' wheels. Photo by Paul Aston. |
It looks like Evil is close to replacing their 26" wheeled, 150mm travel Uprising with a new machine that's designed around 27.5" wheels. The blue bike was being ridden in the Whistler Bike Park yesterday by former BMC pro Aaron Bradford, and it appears that Evil has stuck with what they know works well: the bike still employs Dave Weagle's DELTA linkage design, as well as the bolt-on connection that allows the rider to adjust the bike's bottom bracket height, head angle and wheel base without altering the suspension's leverage rate.
As you'd expect, Bradford wasn't too keen on sharing any technical details, but I'd be surprised if the new bike has less travel than the 150mm that the Uprising offers, although I could see Evil upping that number to keep the new machine in line with slightly longer travel bikes that we're seeing used by Enduro World Series racers. The frame itself, while looking a lot like the Uprising, must also be an entirely new model with different geometry to suit the larger diameter wheels.
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| Luke Strobel racing on the new bike at the NW Cup at Stevens Pass. Photo by Eric Ashley. |
Word is that Evil will be showing the new bike at the upcoming Eurobike tradeshow, which likely means that the rig pictured here is very close to what the production bike will look like, if not exactly. More details to come soon.
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I had a Revolt which was out of line and snapped on the guy I sold it to also, they look beautiful bikes but I've seen a too high % failure rate in regards to units sold to put my cash there again and give them a THIRD chance
The first Uprising cracked and it was eventually replaced after about 4 months and lots of bullshit from the European importer. Then the Undead also cracked along with the swing arm the front triangle was replaced in about a month but the swing arm took nearly a year to arrive and again reams of bullshit excuses from the importer and an offer to sell me an updated swingarm for 400 euros.
Incidentally there is another uprising being ridden locally that began to crack around the bottom bracket area that was months ago the issue was spotted and the owner is still waiting for a new frame.
As I said great riding bikes shit customer service all from MY experience. I'm afraid that their troubles are not my problem but they have been made so due to the trouble I've had, if you go to cheap chinese factories this is what happens quality construction and decent quality control costs see Santa Cruz, I see this all the time in my industry (Solar PV) buy decent buy once. It might also help if they had a European importer that wasn't incompetent and full of BS Evil managed to put me off Carbon bikes altogether until my sons DH coach persuaded me to visit his sponsors shop and I bought the Troy lifetime warranty.
The Kona lasted 2 weeks before I sold it, since then I've had Two Specialized Demos both given to my sons to race now Devinci Troy (given to my sons) and now a Specialized Enduro which I'm over the moon with.
Oh god. I want this bike so bad if this bike has proper tire clearance-!!!!
what is actually the holy grail of rear suspension kinematics? 100% antisquat with 0% pedal kick back , 0% brake jack . hmm?
progressive starting at 3.5 to 2.8 at 60 mm ( the 30% sag point ) then its linear ( mildly progressive) 2.8-2.6 (60mm -160mm travel) and then progressive agian 2.6-2.2 for the last 40 mm out of 203mm travel. antisquat is about 100% with 38t chainring , with brakesquat bad at around 95%.
so the revolt bike is very sensitive for small bumps , supple with great mid hit linearity and overall good bottom out characteristics.
I would assume that the prototype evil enduro bike will be designed in fairly similar way as undead but just optimized for 32T chainring.
Now if you look at well designed fsr kind bike like yt capra its fully progressive 3.2 - 2 , antisquat 100% , brake jack 60 % .
same excellent small bump suppleness similar characteristics , just different design but with good shock placement.
My advice? Don't wait. Buy something else.