![]() ![]() How hard is it to balance this with the bike's main intention, which is obviously to come back down? ![]() Levy: The Slayer has quite a bit of anti-squat and a steep seat angle, both to presumably make the bike a relatively good climber. We'll be making both the Altitude and Slayer available to our EWS team next year. ![]() The Slayer is light and pedals super well, so for a lot of riders, it's worth having just a little more capability. Don't you think a 170mm fork could be overkill for many riders?īrian Park: 165/170mm is the sweet spot for certain tracks and riders, especially people who plow through trail chunder rather than dance over it. Mike Levy: You've spec'd a 170mm-travel fork on all four complete Slayer builds but we've seen many EWS races won on 160mm-travel (or less) bikes with 160mm-travel forks. The dropout pivot is located well below the bike's axle line, but Rocky says that it's still a Smoothlink design. ![]()
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