Newly Released Bikes General

[downunderdallas]

New 29ers Spectral, looks pretty good

Canyon Spectral 29 Review | An excellent, contemporary long-travel granite smasher

The Canyon Spectral 29 is all-new for 2021, and arrives to fill an important gap in the German brand's full suspension lineup. Far from being the same old Spectral with big wheels jammed in though, the new Spectral 29 features a new carbon frame and some of the most radical geometry we've seen...

flowmountainbike.com

 

[hifiandmtb]

PB says a bit meh:

Review: Canyon's New 2021 Spectral 29 CF 8.0 - Pinkbike

The Spectral is back on big wheels for 2021, with 150mm of rear travel and a full carbon frame.

www.pinkbike.com

Rather a Ripmo.

 

[leitch]

PB says a bit meh:

I don’t really get “a bit meh” from that; describes it as a chefs knife to the Meta TR’s meat tenderiser... I’d prefer the knife.

The Jeffsy-style small bottle only is a fuckup though and would be enough to send me elsewhere given how many good 150mm bikes there are around now - Ripmo included.

 

[downunderdallas]

PB says a bit meh:

Review: Canyon's New 2021 Spectral 29 CF 8.0 - Pinkbike

The Spectral is back on big wheels for 2021, with 150mm of rear travel and a full carbon frame.

www.pinkbike.com

Rather a Ripmo.

For the price of the base Spectral you only get a Ripmo frame.

 

[pink poodle]

I don’t really get “a bit meh” from that; describes it as a chefs knife to the Meta TR’s meat tenderiser... I’d prefer the knife.

The Jeffsy-style small bottle only is a fuckup though and would be enough to send me elsewhere given how many good 150mm bikes there are around now - Ripmo included.

Any bottle is a fuck up.

 

[HamboCairns]

The answer is always a Henty.

 

[hifiandmtb]

For the price of the base Spectral you only get a Ripmo frame.

Worth it.

 

[leitch]

The answer is always a Henty.

The answer is never a Henty.

 

[Boom King]

I don’t really get “a bit meh” from that; describes it as a chefs knife to the Meta TR’s meat tenderiser... I’d prefer the knife.

Knife is no good if you want to tenderise meat.

 

[leitch]

Knife is no good if you want to tenderise meat.

Use the back of the knife!

 

[Minlak]

My favourite term “subjective”

If we all liked the same thing only fat chicks would get love

 

[pink poodle]

The answer is always a Henty.

 

[pink poodle]

My favourite term “subjective”

If we all liked the same thing only fat chicks would get love

Only I have good taste.

 

[mike14]

Spectral looks like another one of those 'do it all' bikes for a lot of Aussie terrain, especially in Vic. I've owned a Strive and spent a weekend on a mates old model Spectral, both are very good bang-for-buck bikes, but they both just rode a little bit 'boring'.

I know there's world wide supply issues, but why release a new bike that you can't get until at least mid- Feb 2021?

 

[frenchman]

So the shimano brakes on the canyon and ibis both shit the bed

Waiting for the "But they didn't bleed it properly" crowd

 

[mike14]

So the shimano brakes on the canyon and ibis both shit the bed

Waiting for the "But they didn't bleed it properly' crowd

Seems to the PB crew's major gripe at the moment, which has me a little worried as my new bike has XTs

 

[frenchman]

Seems to the PB crew's major gripe at the moment, which has me a little worried as my new bike has XTs

I wouldn't call it a gripe. It's become such a common issue it's nice to see one of the biggest mtb sites calling them out on it.
Unless you adopt @moorey s technique of offering yaw first harvest and the blood of a toad to get the perfect bleed.

 

[Asininedrivel]

Actofive P-TRAIN CNC prototype just passed the epically German EFBE Tri-Test: three modules, fatigue, maximum load and overload with a vertical overload value of 900kg.

(I have literally no idea what any of this means, but it sounds impressive)

In the interim here's a photo of the bike from a slightly different angle:

 

[greendream]

Seems to the PB crew's major gripe at the moment, which has me a little worried as my new bike has XTs

"Don't borrow sorrow from tomorrow" I've been using the 4 pot XT's for over 12 months now & have had no issue with them at all. I prefer the shimano "feel" and they've managed to pull up my 100kg+ mass consistently. I'm planning on bleeding them in the near future so we will see what result this produces.

 

[mike14]

Actofive P-TRAIN CNC prototype just passed the epically German EFBE Tri-Test: three modules, fatigue, maximum load and overload with a vertical overload value of 900kg.

(I have literally no idea what any of this means, but it sounds impressive)

In the interim here's a photo of the bike from a slightly different angle:

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Pretty sure after COVID lockdown diet I was approaching an overload of value of 900kg...