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ebruner Added a reply to New EVIL Offering - Forum Hot Seat with Evil Bikes
11/4/2025 1:08pm Do you guys mind sharing a frame weight for a Large? (sorry if this is posted in your faq videos, i'm at work and can't watch them) I've been in the market for a new trail bike and I've been looking for a 140/150 travel frame. I have a hunch that this bike could be slightly heavier then other options...
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Evil Bike Co. Liked a reply to forum topic New EVIL Offering - Forum Hot Seat with Evil Bikes
11/4/2025 1:03pm
Thanks & great question - it's a longer answer than we can reasonably sum up here, but we'll do our best. Your assessment is correct - an "agile" ride character has always been somewhat of a hallmark here at Evil. We try to walk the line between agile/fun, and stable/confident. Short stays make for fun wheelies & jumps, thus, we've always stayed on the shorter side. There's a great argument for size-specific chainstay lengths - that much, we do not debate. Our rear triangles are a relatively complex mold. Molds are quite expensive. Introducing another rear triangle mold increases total...
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ebruner Added a reply to New EVIL Offering - Forum Hot Seat with Evil Bikes
11/4/2025 10:44am I'd love to try one... in a field of crab links, faux crab links and imitation crab link look alikes, this does stand out as different and interesting. As a 6'3" ish rider, I'm interested in the design/validation process that lead to a fixed chainstay size. I'm a longer chainstay type of guy, but I can admit when I jump...
ebruner Added a reply to MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation
10/30/2025 1:40pm F1 (and other highly aero dependent motorsports cars) are not a great example of suspension kinematics that will directly apply. This is especially true in the current ground effect aero era of F1 as a lot of the performance aspects of the car are in order to maintain a floor/diffusor distance to the pavement. That is so incredibly impactful of...
ebruner Added a reply to Aftermarket Ebike Wiring Harness For YT Decoy
10/29/2025 11:44am Soap box context for the opinion shared within my post below: I ground up built a new wiring harness for my 99 turbo miata when I was still doing track stuff with it, and then re-harnessed it yet again when I put a honda k24 engine in it. TLDR, I am VERY comfortable with DC electrical systems and wiring harnesses...
ebruner Added a reply to E-bike talk: not tech rumor derailment
10/29/2025 9:06am For the first time in a long time, porsche is not doing well. I would not put stake into them holding onto fazua as a brand/effort and would be watching to see if they put any capital into that side of their "business". It would make sense for them to hold onto it long term, having a foot into the...
ebruner Added a reply to Clear riding glasses
10/28/2025 3:09pm I use some way too expensive smith photochromatic glasses that I like, but are absolutely not worth the price. They were a bro-deal years ago, otherwise i would absolutely not pay full price. I got caught on a recent bike park trip with some rain days and didn't have clear riding glasses because it was a full face heavy trip...
ebruner Added a reply to Transmission - Mechanical Edition
10/28/2025 12:23pm I just keep praying that ratio is going to come out with a cam or replacement part that allows the usage of an eagle shifter with c90. That won't likely happen, but won't stop me from trying to make it materialize with my mind juice.
ebruner Added a reply to Transmission - Mechanical Edition
10/28/2025 11:02am I can chime in here on this one. I just took gx axs transmission off of my trail bike in favor of eagle 90. I retained the XS1275 cassette and the x01 chain that I was running previously and replaced the controller and derailleur for eagle 90 parts. FWIW, I am running a 53mm chainline crankset and chainring on this...
ebruner Added a reply to L keys or ratchets
10/23/2025 3:54pm thanks for the nudge towards the wera zip ratchets. I'm gonna put those on my christmas list this year. Related to that, my wife bought me some of the park tool sliding T-handle wrenches last year for christmas. I am very meh on them overall, especially for the price. For me, I just keep using a set of stainless Wera...
NoahColorado Liked a reply to forum topic MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation
10/23/2025 2:03pm
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ebruner Added a reply to MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation
10/22/2025 6:58pm Well the bad news is that I don't know what to tell you, and the good news is that I have nothing to prove, nor nothing to gain for convincing you. I have a lot of mountain bikes and so does my wife, 6 between us. Everyone of our bikes has sram brakes with metallic pads, 200mm hs2 rotors and...
ebruner Added a reply to MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation
10/22/2025 1:29pm I have fought off having superboost rear wheels in my fleet for many years. My wife fell in love with a pivot recently and got herself one. It has ruined the zen status of all wheels/hubs fitting all bikes in my garage. It is as bad, if not worse then the dystopian axle future I imagined that had me avoiding...
ebruner Added a reply to Pick your 3 favorite MTB brands?
10/22/2025 1:26pm I like transition bikes... but there are more quality issues then I am tolerant of and I would be concerned about selling them online. If I were opening a shop: -I would want a high end, low return/warranty rate brand. That answer is easy, Santacruz... One could make an argument that Specialized may be a smarter choice in this segment...
ebruner Added a reply to Anyone rode the Bronson v5 and the nomad v6?
10/22/2025 1:17pm I have an xl v6 nomad and I have spent a week on the v5 bronson and v4 hightower. Previously, I've owned many other SC bikes, v4 nomad, v1 megatower, v2 megatower... etc. For me, it would depend on the intended usage. I would still lean nomad if I were in your position, but mostly because I use my nomad...
ebruner Added a reply to 2025 Red Bull Rampage
10/18/2025 5:43am Women's mountain biking is so lit right now. I hope the ladies are stoked with their riding and the show they put on because it was excellent. I was a little lost in the who is riding whose line storylines in the broadcast, which was a big story in this years event. Feels like the women got 10 years of...
ebruner Added a reply to Anybody buying these enDHuro sub-200 dual crown builds? Are they valid or cheap fan service?
10/16/2025 4:19pm You are correct. I did this to mount a straight tube manitou circus to my tapered steer tube dj frame. Cane creek is the headset I'm using in this case, and you use one of these https://worldwidecyclery.com/products/cane-creek-110-series-alloy-52-30…
ebruner Added a reply to Honest question for e-bike buyers: What's your long term ownership strategy when you buy an e-bike?
10/15/2025 1:18pm I mean, ebike drivetrains aren't that different then actual drivetrains. Granted, It adds 2 fully expendable ~800-1k wear items to the whole vehicle. However from my experience, it is reasonable to expect your emtb drive system to last a minimum of 3x your mechanical drivetrains and a max of 5ish. That should pan out to 3-5k miles as a base...
ebruner Added a reply to Anybody buying these enDHuro sub-200 dual crown builds? Are they valid or cheap fan service?
10/15/2025 8:08am Watched it last night, good follow up video and i do agree with you. I ran a 180mm boxxer on my megatower 1 for a short period of time and it was awesome. At that time, I measured the 180mm boxxer to have pretty much the same axle to crown as the 170mm zeb and the difference in flex/bushing bind...
jeff.brines Liked a reply to forum topic Anybody buying these enDHuro sub-200 dual crown builds? Are they valid or cheap fan service?
10/15/2025 7:58am
Felt this was a fitting place to post my thoughts on running a Boxxer on a Spire. Spoiler Alert: Its the best setup I've run thus far. I genuinely don't understand why we don't see this more often, from ~160-170mm on up. Especially on e-bikes. I suppose price is part of it, but my real guess is what I'm going to call "mimesis"; we all broadly follow more than we lead. And breaking convention is hard.
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