Def think the regular stumpy is more than adequate for there. I get the evo are cool and all, but not a great fit for a lot of people who are grabbing them, imho, especially here in rocky central PA. bb hella low, and most of these people won’t ever be really sending it it or hitting up bike parks enough to warrant the travel and geo otherwise.
And, as you say, you have access to bigger bikes if one wants.
So far we have only gotten full size run of Levo and two Kenevo SLs, so interested to see what other demos we might get. Needless to say the stumpy demos we got in 2019 aren’t really cutting it these days.
They are pretty fun. Getting used to weight in air feels a bit weird, but sl motor is enough for fun and shenanigans like riding up a trail to hit some jumps you hadn’t seen before (very very low traffic- probably only us that day).
I want to try to the Evo to see if my enduro pedals better or at least as good for travel numbers. I wouldn’t doubt it, but a back to back would be nice.
I have both the Kenevo SL comp (that but black) and Levo alloy Comp this week. They both are fun. Yesterday did 22 miles on the full powered levo. Def a bigger bike, you do feel that. Only used full turbo mode to get home before dark. Both are def fun bikes. But I do get the idea that the SL (or any light e-bike) still feels like a regular trail bike while the full powered bois feel different, heavier, still fun, but you gotta be there to push them.
I installed a Works 2* slackerer headset on my Rip9 tonight. Head angle is now 67*ish, wheelbase grew a cm or so. Was kinda tough to install. It works by making the steerer tube non-concentric with the HT and my cheap press wasn’t thrilled about it. There may have been some mallet use.
I’m not sure, I hadn’t considered that. It’s a 2013-era RockShox Recon Silver, which a quick google leads me to believe - maybe? I suspect the $24 spacer will be the cheapest/easiest route for a little more trail but I’ll look into the fork since more travel would be cool too.
I found my headtube extender, you’re welcome to it for free.99
it’s for an 1-1/8 headtube and adds 20mm
IIRC all of those cheaper Solo Air forks were free to increase the travel on up to 120mm or 130mm, just by removing plastic spacers on the piston. Most newer and fancier RockShox forks would need the air shaft swapped out to do that, and most Fox forks need a bunch of major parts like the uppers
