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Sorry Spomer yeah I know thats not new for you....I actually had an old Dirt mag close at hand I flicked through to remember some old bikes and thought you could easily written one of the articles in there!
Designed by a focus group of PB commenters? (that’s neither criticism nor praise)
Also this isn’t a rumor so much as an advertisement.
official status press release - https://www.vitalmtb.com/news/press-release/introducing-all-new-status-2
Status 2 140 $3,500
Status 2 140 ZERO $3,000 (size 0, 27.5/26 mini mullet)
Status 2 170 $3,500
Status 2 170 DH $4,500
Status 2 170 ZERO $3,000 (size 0, 27.5/26 mini mullet)
Status 2 170 Frameset $2,000
God damn that’s an ugly paint job
Cant wait till they're $1200 bucks on buy/sell
In a sense I half expected the 140 status to be the alloy stumpjumper - even though Mr. Hunter's bike is clearly very different than what we started seeing of the status a little while ago. Strange, it seems to me those bikes will have significant overlap aside from some geometry tweaks and the suspension tech features in the new stumpy. I wonder what the opening price stumpy will be? Traditionally they have had a pretty affordable base alloy spec.
The ally stumpy is going to have to be good to beat that.
Why this came to mind I don't know:
Needs more skulls and cobwebs
I kind of hope, somehow, they are able to add a mullet flip chip or something when they redo the drop outs for the Enduro. That would be neat. But Im expecting them to just remove the holes for cables because F us right 😈
Really? A minor update for their most outdated bike? Bizarre
Not if they have a pile of front triangles laying around
Yeah, odd they just didn’t do a Stumpy Evo-esq update last year. Adjustable head cups etc. Just modernise the geo a tad, keep the suspension layout the same and do a full redesign after the proto demo becomes production. Maybe they didn’t want to invest in the moulds due to the covid slump and thought they’d skip a generation 🤷
The VProcess also used one at one stage I saw an image of it the other day I’ll upload when I find it, orange also used a brake arm, even the Tomac 204 Lawwill tested it on some of the team bikes.
Rumor I heard was that there were major production issues that set the Enduro back a whole year…
This jives with what I have heard around and through the grapevine, too. I guess the bikes were damn near ready to go, but something happened when scaling them up for full production. Last I heard there was not even a hint of an ETA for release.
Yep that’s what I heard.
Do they? With all the warranties and issues the front triangle had I would expect rear triangles being in the surplus...
Beat me to it Primoz!
They would have a mountain of rear triangles because of the insane failure rate of the front triangles from not 1, but 4 common points of failure.
I can only assume production issues mean they went with the complicated pull link design seen on the prototype demo?
Specialized has great warranty support, they give you a whole new frame, not just the failed part. And there were also issues with seatstays, a lot of people broke them. I don't believe there is any surplus.
Isn’t it funny how this is a known issue yet nobody gives shit to Specialized for the amount of failures while other brands that have a few broken frames here and there ( that get replaced under warranty) takes shit for years and years?
Because Specialized handle it so well.
Whereas a lot of other brands begrudge warranty and make any claims an absolute ballache.
The amount of failures is also directly related for the amount they sell too. Proportionally it’s probably very similar to everyone else.
Sooo I knew the frames had a week spot. But 4 of them? Could someone tell me what those 4 are?
On the front triangle id have to assume they are head tube, down tube, seat tube, and top tube.
The common issues on Enduro frames I know of are:
1. Early sworks frames came with a carbon pull-link. These had issues breaking.
2. The integrated headset bearing races have issues cracking and delaminating
3. They've had issues cracking on the seat tube where the rocker link pivot goes through.
As far as I know, the only one that's still common-ish is the headset.
#1 was fixed by moving to an alloy link. The old carbon link is still shown in the manual, but no longer available.
The other two were supposedly fixed by beefed up layups.
Anyone know what DT Swiss have in the works? Some of their riders (Richie Rude, Danny Hart etc) running plain silver/white coloured wheels with no graphics on them
Would love to see a re-released ex1750 wheelset
Not sure, but I know they’re not helping Trickstuff improve their manufacturing efficiency
How would it differ from an EX1700 with white paint?
EX 1750 is going to a blast from the past. Google it.