21/22 Bikes That Make Your Shorts Tighter.

It’s not a copy, it’s an homage.

OK, back to the whole bikes for tight shorts, thing.

I recently built a top level Evil Wreckoning for a bud. When it was done, he was out of town for a week and he told me to take it out and put it through the paces (Strictly for QC reasons :cool: ).
I've always read the Wrecker was way more of a big trailbike than an enduro rig and I wanted to check out how it rode normal, flatish, non-DH, trails (Being a long travel Evil, I was pretty sure it would have DH chops).
The bike blew me away. The best thing I can say is that, even with the rear coil, it felt very similar to my Offering.
IMO, put an Ohlins air shock on it and this bike is the next evolution of the trailbike. An Offering on steroids.

The new Orbea Rallon looks pretty goddamn awesome. I mean, most new bikes that come out looks awesome, but there's not many that I'd actually consider buying. The Rallon might be an exception. Reasonably light, can be converted between DH and enduro, adjustable without going overboard, low-ish anti rise and low-ish anti squat, good geo, sane cable routing, and it even fits a water bottle. Pretty much ticks all of my boxes. Looks fairly sexy too.

https://www.pinkbike.com/news/first-...n-dh-2025.html

https://ep1.pinkbike.org/p5pb28183522/p5pb28183522.jpg

I duno this is so 4 yrs ago so i bought a new bike

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Originally Posted by toast2266

The new Orbea Rallon looks pretty goddamn awesome. I mean, most new bikes that come out looks awesome, but there's not many that I'd actually consider buying. The Rallon might be an exception. Reasonably light, can be converted between DH and enduro, adjustable without going overboard, low-ish anti rise and low-ish anti squat, good geo, sane cable routing, and it even fits a water bottle. Pretty much ticks all of my boxes. Looks fairly sexy too. https://www.pinkbike.com/news/first-...n-dh-2025.html https://ep1.pinkbike.org/p5pb28183522/p5pb28183522.jpg

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It's a cool idea but the logistics of going back and forth between enduro and DH are non-trivial. You're looking at a bare minimum of a second shock ~$600 and DH fork $1800. Then you're either riding DH with a floppy 12sp drivetrain, or buying and swapping a second one of those. You could make taking off the enduro parts a bit easier if the enduro setup was wireless, but there's no retail wireless DH yet.
I could theoretically do something similar with my Nomad 6 and a Cascade link - that bumps it up to 190mm rear with the same 65mm stroke shock. And a 190mm Boxxer is only 5mm higher AC than a 170mm Zeb. But the drivetrain swap thing would still be there.
I do really like the optional weights feature of the Rallon though. I notice a huge difference in traction on steep loose riding my 43 lb SL ebike vs. my 35 lb Nomad (the extra weight being more grip).

^ i'm convinced no more than 10% of the people obsessed with shape shifting bikes , flip chips , multi bike compatible frames, are actually using it. there's too much adjustment on today's bike. fight me.

An exceedingly small number of people will actually convert it between the DH and Enduro configs. But, as a business strategy for Orbea it's a much better idea than selling separate Enduro and DH frames.

Sexy AF for sure.

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Originally Posted by Andeh

It's a cool idea but the logistics of going back and forth between enduro and DH are non-trivial. You're looking at a bare minimum of a second shock ~$600 and DH fork $1800. Then you're either riding DH with a floppy 12sp drivetrain, or buying and swapping a second one of those. You could make taking off the enduro parts a bit easier if the enduro setup was wireless, but there's no retail wireless DH yet.
I could theoretically do something similar with my Nomad 6 and a Cascade link - that bumps it up to 190mm rear with the same 65mm stroke shock. And a 190mm Boxxer is only 5mm higher AC than a 170mm Zeb. But the drivetrain swap thing would still be there.
I do really like the optional weights feature of the Rallon though. I notice a huge difference in traction on steep loose riding my 43 lb SL ebike vs. my 35 lb Nomad (the extra weight being more grip).

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Yeah, I wouldn't actually switch it very often. Maybe never. It's more that I want an enduro bike that's essentially just a DH bike with climbing gears, and that's what this is. A *lot* of other enduro-ish bikes give up some descending performance to achieve better manners in non-descending situations. For the most part, for where this bike would slot into my quiver, I don't want that.

For where I live, and for 95% of the riding I do, I want an enduro bike. I could potentially see myself converting it for Whistler / other bike park trips. Definitely not switching back and forth with any frequency though.

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Now that Revel is back in the game, I've got my eye on a Ritual (especially at these lower prices).... waiting patiently to see some real-world reviews come out.

Not perfect, but the new Alloy Special Ed Turbo Levo comes in S1. I've been searching high and low for a full power long travel ebike for wife, and there are zero bikes. A couple brands making half power bikes with little batteries in the smaller sizes, but nothing full pull with shorter reach and WB. Not buying today, but options are better than they were yesterday.

check out the Vala, I'm really liking mine, a little less bulk than the Bullit, it feels lighter, the bosch motor is > the Shimano becuz it is quieter, it has more power down low and just seems to work better

So shorts and shirts tighter?