The ridiculously capable mystifyingly comfortable head-shakingly light and all-around fast Epic Hardtail. But who said fatigue from fighting against your own bike makes you any faster? Instead recognizing that the fastest bike is more than simply the lightest bike we said out with the jarred-to-death tail the measure-your-posterior’s-sorrows-by-the-yard tail and in with the avant-garde tail. Working towards the lightest bike possible has long been the race within the race but at what cost? The battle of the grams certainly hasn’t been without its casualties with hardtail XC race bikes coming to stand for a harsh twitchy ride at the expense of capability and versatility. Fast and light meets confident and capable in a bike that’s been bred to redefine what’s possible on a cross-country speed demon. Well get ready to get it a lot more aboard the Epic Hardtail. The are-they-really-about-to-ride-that-on-a-hardtail look. Actual FinanceĪpplication is Completed During Checkout. Option, please note we will only ship your order to yourīilling address, and not to an alternative delivery ![]() Information please visit If you are intending to use finance as your payment The Prudential Regulation Authority and regulated by theįinancial Conduct Authority and the Prudential RegulationĪuthority with registration number 204550. Registered Office: Yorke House, Arleston Way, Solihull, B90 4LH. Is provided by V12 Retail Finance Ltd, a trading name of Subject to status, minimum spend applies. £175.80 and total amount repayable is £1,262.64,Ĭonsumer credit services are only available to over 18s and Months Classic Credit (15.9% APR Representative), you would pay With a deposit of £263.15 and your selected term is 24 We did, however, encounter regular loss of air from the rear tubeless tyre.Representative example: If total purchase price is £1,349.99 The spec is all sorted kit: a decent 25in wide carbon riser bar, a sorted Shimano XT/SRAM X.0 transmission and Magura’s purposeful Marta hydraulic discs take care of propulsion and stopping, while a Fox F100RLC fork ensures that the front end does its suspension thing as well as we’ve come to expect. ![]() It also features a big range of click adjustments to tune the shock’s ‘closed’ state anywhere from fully locked to ‘Trail Tune’, which is almost, but not quite, fully open to aid pedalling efficiency. So for as long the oil is flowing (which requires bump forces), it stays open. However, the AFR Flow Control does away with the uniform spring timer and instead relies on the rebound flow of the oil itself to close the compression circuit. A hydraulic timer (a spring) then closed the valve after a uniform time, which was the root of the clunky character of previous Epics because the shock could stutter into being locked out – albeit briefly – on the rough stuff. The old Fox Brain shock used an inertial valve that was closed until a bump force was applied that opened the valve, allowing oil flow. The major difference is the addition of Specialized’s own AFR Flow Control shock. There’s a bi-oval down tube, a dropped top tube, a FACT carbon shock link to reduce weight and full sealed cartridge bearings. The frame is largely unchanged from last year’s, with FSR M5 tubing sculpted understatedly.
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