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SAM BENEDICT: Welcome to SBCU.
Today we're going to talk about the All Mountain
Machine, the Enduro.
The Enduro's one of my favorite bikes because this
thing is all about getting it done.
You want to get to the top of the hill, want something
that's light and efficient, but super fun on the downhill.
So you have a slacker, more capable machine just to get
gnarly on the way down.
So let's talk about some of the nuts and bolts of the
Enduro frame.
This is a really unique frame because this has the ISX
construction.
So you see we have a tapered head tube that leads into your
press fit bottom bracket, but we have this really
interesting feature that ties the top tube, and the down
tube together.
This is to get a little bit more stiffness
out of the bike because--
the way that these will be ridden-- you're going fast,
hucking off stuff, ramming into things really hard.
We wanted to make sure that the front end stiffness was
where it needed to be.
So nice tie-in with the ISX frame, you can see the shock
leads down to an all new FSR layout.
And what we wanted to do here was give the bike a little bit
more pedaling efficiency, a little bit more
snap out the corners.
Because these bikes are fun to ride, but they're also great
race bikes as well.
So we're looking for just a little bit more peddling snap
out of that FSR.
Beyond that we've got some internal frame routing here.
When you get down to your command post you
can run that inside--
so nice and hidden.
And, of course, you can run this one-by setup, or if you
wanted to run front derailleur here, that's totally possible
on both the 29 and the smaller wheel sizes as well.
So the geometry on an all mountain bike is pretty
different than most bikes.
Like we've talked about before the bike has to climb as well
as descend.
So you'll notice that the headtube is actually pretty
darn slack compared to most bikes-- this is
67-and-a-half degrees.
And then you move down to a pretty
darn low bottom bracket--
13 and 1/2 inches at 350 millimeters.
That's pretty freaking low, especially for a 29 inch bike.
And then when you get to the rear end-- this is where
things get really, really interesting--
we wanted to come up with a bike that was super snappy,
just jumped out at the corners.
So the rear end on this bike is a 430 millimeter chainstay.
That's incredibly short, and we're able to achieve that by
melding in a couple of different tricks that we've
learned over the years.
First thing you'll notice is that we have a drop bridge on
the seat stay here.
That's to give plenty of room for the shortened rear end,
when you're getting all 155 millimeters of travel.
The second thing is a short chainstay.
And you'll notice that there is no front
derailleur on here.
And because there's no front derailleur, we could run
things shorter than they were before.
But, if you wanted to run a front derailleur, the smart
guys-- our engineers--
came up with a brand new front derailleur mount called the
Taco Blade.
This puts the front derailleur in a new position that allows
for that really short rear end.
So 430 millimeters on a 155 millimeter 29er is just
absolutely incredible.
It's going to make the bike feel so alive, so much fun to
write down those big rocks and drops, and just go ahead and
have yourself as much fun as possible.
Another cool thing to point out about the geometry on this
frame is that we've got a real low slung top tube, so we can
get as much standover height as possible.
And that's one, just for comfort of fit, and two, just
in case something goes wrong.
And the last thing is we've got these little water bottle
mounts here, and that's pretty darn cool to see the ability
to get a full size water bottle inside a bike with this
much travel.
So low stand over height and water bottle--
super important.
So on the Enduro there's a lot of small, really cool features
that help define the bike and give it the great ride that is
so much fun to ride.
So up here in the cockpit you'll notice that we've got
low, low-rise, 750 millimeter wide handlebar--
gives you nice, steady stance on there.
Watch out for the narrow trees, but give
you a lot of control.
And then one of my favorite grips of all time--
the Sip Grip--
these are lock-on grips that lock on one side, nice and
smooth on the top, and waffle on the bottom for
extra finger grip.
Moving down to the fork, on both wheel sizes we have 160
millimeter Pike forks on here, fantastic fork.
One of the best riding forks I've ever ridden.
It takes you down into the all new Traverse SAL wheels.
So carbon rims on the S-works, and we also have alloy
Traverse rims on the expert versions.
But the Traverse, just like the Enduro, is built for that
all mountain idea.
So it's a wider rim, built with a little bit more
robustness to it-- it's going to hold up very, very strong,
but also really, really lightweight as well.
And that's very important when you're trying to get the
wheels up to speed, you want to be able to accelerate them
by having lightweight rims.
Moved back to the bike, we have the Cane Creek Double
Barrel shock on the S-works.
This is a beautifully tunable shock, has
all kinds of options.
You can make the bike do whatever you want, those
small, subtle details, and also has a brand new climb
switch for this year.
So you can adjust your low speed compression on the fly,
which is new for this year.
On the non S-works models we use Fox shocks that have the
autosag features.
So remember to help those riders get set up with the
proper sag right out of the gate.
The bike will ride so much better with the proper sag.
Moving to the back we've got the brand new Command Post IR.
IR stands for Internal Routing-- super
clever name, I know.
But the nice thing about the Command Post IR is it still
has the three positions that we're used to.
All the way at the top the cruiser mode, and down at the
bottom, but now it takes just a third of the force to
activate at the lever, and a much cleaner design.
Moving towards the back of the bike we have the option to run
XX1, or any one-by system that you want to run.
But, as you'd expect, if you want to run a double on these
bikes that is totally possible.
You can run the Taco Blade to mount up your front derailleur
on the smaller wheel size.
You don't need a Talk Blade, it just mounts straight to the
frame, it's already built in.
All the way in the back there, 142 plus, remember that's our
own proprietary system.
That's 142 millimeter spacing, but we get a little bit extra
because Revel and Specialized are homeboys.
We can work together to get a wider spaced hub to get just a
little bit extra stiffness out of the bike.
Matched up with Butcher tires, and Purgatory's in
the back, Mega Grip.
And again one of the most fun bikes that you could possibly
ride out there-- be careful because it's going to go fast.