Does this mean that you felt too hunched over with the stock xL setup?That was from me. Every XL bike I’ve bought always needs extra spacers, riser/longer stem and riser bars. Every time. Ridiculous. I’m 6’3” so not beyond the norm for a tall person.
Unless you ride north of route 80.Because, SS is faster.
Unless you ride north of route 80.
Yep. Hunched over and cramped. I prefer to have my handlebar on the same horizontal plane as the saddle. When I bought my XL Fuel EX a few years ago, I set the seatpost/saddle height according to the Greg Lemond method (roughly 0.883 of one’s inseam) to start with. This enables a slight bend in my knee when pedal is near its lowest point. But the bike came with a shortish headtube, zero-rise 50mm stem and ~10 mm riser bar. The bars were easily 2” below saddle height. 😡. I ended up adding a 100mm 17 degree rise stem and a 30 mm riser bar along with the full stack of available spacers to get me where I needed to be.Does this mean that you felt too hunched over with the stock xL setup?
Other than the 14K top of the line bike, which is irrelevant to me No More lefty Again, good when it works but... anyway..
I had to look this upMan, that’s a bad look.
i assumed its because they couldn't add spacers. Which is weird because there are solutions to that. My Road bike has internal routing and has special spacers you can add or remove without removing the brake lines.@jShort I'm not in the market for the something like that Scalpel but I was reading the review and basically stopped at the internal routing. They even mentioned they couldn't mess around with the fit on the test bike. Switching to a new bike usually has some fitment changes in stem/spacers/bars, how do you go through that process? I
this is really interesting. And true. Now they just need to make it a little cheaper and to come in all size shocksWe were having a discussion here yesterday how the new Rockshox Flight Attendant Suspension will make frame design irrelevent and there will no longer be any difference in what XC bike you buy. Get whatever one has the best deal when you're looking because they will all literally ride the same. Even the Geo sheets on these bikes are all exactly the same now.
this was never the case (edit, adding "for me" ), Replacement frames were always readily available.Having said that you know if you buy a Cannondale it will break and they will never have a replacement frame availble so...There's that.
It's pretty bad form to report this failure of a pre-production bike in a media outlet. This shit happens a lot. (to many brands btw) It's rarely reported.2 more things.
First, of course the pink bike reviewer had one of the scalpel frames crack during the test. Sure they had a 220 lb dude go off a 5 ft drop, but still. Man, that’s a bad look.
And secondly why is there such a lack of XC bike reviews written by actual XC racers/riders. They’re all written by people who normally ride “more gravity oriented bikes”. I feel like XC is making a little bit of a comeback based on all the new bikes, it being an Olympics year, and popularity of the racing. Why doesn’t pink bike have a former UCI World Cup XC racer doing reviews of XC bikes?
Bike companies say that the internal routing bs is driven by a demand in europe.
You mean... like a down-country bike?And yes, xc bikes are making a come back. Sometimes i think about a more xc’ish 120 bike that came climb better.