we've got here a pretty unique bike this is by a company called structure cycleworks
when I see a bike like this to demo at crankworx you know I got to
try it out!
we've heard from a lot of experienced riders is that this is a
pure carbon fork
so the center gravity and so when you pop up
how you kind of do that boost, ollie, bunny hop
after my ride here at the end of this video I'm
gonna show you a longer talk that I had with the guys over at structure so you
can hear a bit more from them about how and why this bike was designed this way
it is an enduro bike and it's great for climbing and people are saying that this
is getting them faster Strava times it does seem to be built for speed
oh shoot A-line's closed. see what's so interesting as you compress the fork
it gets slacker which is like the opposite of normal folks the purpose of that is
that the bike stays more stable as you land or go through Tech and stuff like
that this will be quite the interesting ride but right now let's go hit the
trails I'm gonna hit some flow and Tech with this thing all right let's hit it up
so this is a 27.5 bike this is a size medium it is still a bit longer
than I would prefer for the geometry but that's alright something really weird
happened right there where it felt and sounded like I hit the front rim
onto that rock or something but you couldn't hear that from my GoPro footage
unfortunately thought it was a bit interesting because I've never had it
happen on that part of the trail before I don't know if I just took a bad line
or what it's so interesting!
hmm all of A-line's closed, it was kind of strange I hit
the rim on that very first thing that's weird there's good pressure in there
ninja cougar to fade to black how about? should I be scared this is so interesting!
we're gonna hit some road gap here some stunts on fade to black
we're right on
whoo handle that really well whoo let's do this oh yeah nice easy
haha oh yeah I'm taking it like a champ
excellent
I would just say this bike is long for me oh but oh well that's just what this
one size is
it's just so interesting with the other fork with Morris black as you compress
that's a different thing okay so crime with these clothes wonder
why some entrails are first
isn't it weird alright let's do some more ah okay but out with samurai pizza
cats some burns
but did some black diamond to have a afternoon delight do some double black
diamond while starting off with afternoon delight you know go into the
devil box question of it Oh baby
all right that's so crazy
like a long horn and there's a line so the reach on this size medium is
actually 470 millimeters which is huge for me
plus this even had a long stem on it so I was really stretched out my evolve
alpha and Rho bike is also a size medium but it's actually a four hundred and
twenty five millimeter reach and that is about right for me the four hundred
thirty meal reach is just about perfect and for those wondering I'm five foot
ten so I'm just not too sure how much I was feeling the really long bike and how
much I was feeling the different design here because some of those parts to the
tech I was feeling a bit wonky and it may just have been the fact that it was
so long for me
one thing you may not know about me is that I'm quite analytical and I really
love learning about how things work so when there's a totally new design here I
do like to understand it and get to know what it's good for and what it may not
be good for even if it's not something I actually take interest in it's still
good to expand on my perspective of what is out there and what is available on
market
since America whoo
all right let's uh see this big pooter handle
this bike lands quite nicely but I can't say that it goes up lifts as well though
slackening the bike is you're going up a lip is a bit strange and not really what
you want in a world where everyone is interested in enduro beating Strava
times racing it makes sense as to why these kinds of bikes will exist and they
probably do those things well I myself am NOT very enduro I'm not a racer I
don't use Strava Racing can be fun sometimes but I'm just
not interested in a bike like this it's too specialized in something that is too
far apart from my riding disciplines but some of you definitely may like it
either way I'm glad I tried it out it's good to think outside the box sometimes
and question if things really need to stay the same maybe some things do need
to change maybe some things really need to stay the same it really all depends
on what you want out of it as I said this is not something that I care for
but I can understand that there may be a market for something like this how's it
going good yeah it was a crazy thing and handled everything I did yeah like it
it's a bit hard to say because it's so interesting how it gets like he gets
slacker as you compress right like that's the idea it's so opposite of like
everything else so it's something like to get used to I would say yeah no it
was good it took it all so what the heck right that was cool it is a long bike
it's longer than what I'd prefer but yeah it's what it is
like what would you guys say is like the kind of the ideal use of this bike like
enduro bike yeah really really well yeah some expert
we lift a heavy front fork yeah yeah totally you have the square edge climbs
you have to kind of like use body English yeah here the bike linkage rolls
over it and then these yeah I think the problem is the beer now because you know
you have to kind of lift the rear order topic oh yeah I can see that we've set a
whole bunch of PBRs and some king of mountains based yeah yeah okay cause the
way it's designed yeah that's been really mean sweet yeah
add as much feedback we're going to commercial production here very very
soon yeah like a headtube angle what are some of the 86 static okay and it stays
at 66 all the way through front pitch so if I am pitching only the front
suspension it stays at 66 within half a degree all the way through the trouble
so oh yes trailmen like keeping the the rear solid and only the front right okay
I thought I would go more slack but it actually stays the same basically stays
the same basically in the heave of both front and rear suspension it does
slacken by seven point seven degrees okay and that's almost if that's where
we just notice that yeah yeah so what you should notice in writing is that the
distance between the contact patch and your center of gravity stays relatively
constant versus going forth and that is what makes the fun feel more
yeah okay cool what did you like best about the bike what surprised you the
most no it took the the chunks on fate to
block really well the the drug gap to drop oh yeah solid whatever yeah it was
good it was nice and solid for all that for sure
going through some of this guinea or like tech I was like okay I think I just
need to get you sued more like right a little bit more and then I could
probably do it better like I wasn't riding my best but it was
relatively intuitive there was nothing about it that threw you to off except
for the waste like a nose yeah otherwise I thought it was pretty intuitive and
stuff I'm definitely much more of like a downhill free rider and so like I'm not
convinced that this bike would be for like freeride stuff or like jumps I
don't know cuz you guys are saying more like enduro which I think makes sense
that's fair there's definitely a difference between
like enduro stuff like like I don't climb really so like the benefits of
climbing I don't even notice like I don't know about that okay because I I
don't care too much yeah but ya know that's cool like a lot of
people will love that for sure of obviously good put in the rollers or in
the drops where you're not having to boost as nothing you're just kind of
going off how did that feel like that was good no I was like really good I
felt like that landing was like totally it was good there's no no problem there
like because I would figure like compressing down and keeping this locker
at me as you compressed down you have a slacker fork I would say that would keep
you safer and like more stable as you land
it'd be like more comfortable landing fucking I can see that for sure it's
controlled well I'm glad that you actually had a chance to try though he's
so many produces so many people that have interesting perspectives and
haven't even written it yet yeah oh I'm trying to be like open to
things and so like I don't like 29 years but like once in a while I'll ride I'm
just to kind of remind myself what their life
I don't like 49ers so you know it's funny like all the all the EWS enduro
guys you know they love their 29 or like yeah great for race but you don't pledge
you don't real way today but you don't know if it's just like the way the
industry song if they actually like it does attract I mean it's probably better
for racing so it's like because of that it's like it's almost forced upon people
this is exactly that's covered up getting is honestly like I don't know
out here others like downhill racers being like they actually have no
interest in riding 49ers they just ride it because keep up with everyone else
yeah it's just sort of like the bar is raised there's like crap not have to
keep up with that or something I don't know this is what I heard to be some
people for sure so what do you guys think of this bike
would you ever consider owning one do you think it's better than what you may
currently own or what currently exists on the market share your thoughts in the
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