Ok. Spur one ride review:
Yeah, this thing is sweet.
Setup as stock 120mm rear travel, slightly overforked with 130mm fox 34. Hodge podge build with some gx eagle, some X01 eagle, some xtr, raceface next r wheels, real tires (2.3 double down aggressor, 2.5 exo plus dhf). Weighs a bit over 28lbs with pedals.
It's not too far off of enduro-y geometry (I measure the HT angle to be around 65°, maybe slightly less), but obviously it's a short travel bike and pedals as such. Feels super snappy on the pedals, even with semi burly wheels and relatively heavy tires. Out of the saddle sprints are met with a satisfying promptness.
But on the way down, the geometry does its thing. It feels entirely comfortable at speed. My one ride consisted of a couple thousand vert of climbing mixed in with a couple lift served laps. And the bike felt surprisingly not stupid on the lift served bike park laps. It took one of the rootier tech trails before I felt like the bike was undergunned (although in that situation, where the trail calls for high speed root smashing, the spur was most definitely undergunned). And on the smoother bermier, jumpier stuff, the thing is awesome. Slap the berm, and pop off of literally anything. It's fun on real jumps, and it makes mellow flow trails with pseudo roller jumps a lot more fun too.
And it looks clean and sexy.
So far, the only downside is that I'm entirely skeptical the Sid Ultimate rear shock is going to last more than a week or two. That thing was getting nuclear hot.
