Ultra Lord
Hurts. Requires Money. And is nerdy.
Don’t forget the PYR with trailside photo’s!
Test road a trance 29 with the stock guides on it. On a steep descent they faded bad. Have ridden that descent on a number of sets of different brakes with out issue.I know some people are anti Guide but SRAM overcame the sticky lever issue long ago is my experience I've had years of trouble free operation, some in very warm weather.
I had that same issue on my trance 29 with the stock guides, swapped out to sintered pads and they are fine now though.Test road a trance 29 with the stock guides on it. On a steep descent they faded bad. Have ridden that descent on a number of sets of different brakes with out issue.
I will stick to my Shimano, they have there own set of issues but they have always slowed me down.
It is a great bike. I was on the bottom level carbon.So aside from the brakes, what did you think of the bike?
If challenging the podium is not your thing and entering a race to be happy finishing is how you want to be, I would ride my 66°HA evil every race.Having one good MTB for everything off the road compromising a bit on speed/efficiency in a marathon event is more than made up for on weekend trails for the extra fun and confidence the geometry gives me.
Probably they cut the bars on that one. The Trance 29'er comes with 780mm bars from stock.The stock bars were a bit narrow for me but then I normally ride 780-800s.
To upgrade from NX to GX on the Trance 29er 2, you have to be willing to upgrade the wheelset as well as NX is shimano compatible and the stock wheels are NOT the DT Swiss stuff... plus the wheels are a good 2,300grs by themselves.There's an $1800 discrepancy in pricing between the two models. You could buy the Trance 2, a set of Light Bicycle carbon wheels with DT hubs, and an entire GX upgrade (and likely brakes as well) for that money, and probably give you better results.
Of if you really want to, $1800 is a hell of a wheelset budget to play with.