Epic Comp EVO

If we're being honest with ourselves alloy has always been at the heart of the EVO family. It's tough it's stiff and at least with our bikes it's pretty damn light. Basically it embodies everything that's good about mountain bikes and that's what EVO is all about. But an Epic Comp EVO made out of aluminium? We say "yeah it's a perfect fit." And that's because this bike brings all the uphill racing singletrack-ripping fun you want and puts it in a durable on-budget package. So get excited because this is the most "epic" Epic yet.

Take a look around our office and you're going to see plenty Epics—most of them wearing dropper posts wider tyres and bars and slightly longer forks. That's because the Epics that we're Frankensteining are not only fast off the start line they're even better suited to masochistically long rides multi-day stage races and fast backcountry missions. At some point we looked around and said to ourselves “We should offer this bike right out of the box right?” So we did.

So let's dig into the details. First off the EVO ups the fork travel from 100mm to 120mm. This gives you some relief up front while also slacking-out the front-end by one-degree to 68.5º. Next up we added a zero-offset dropper post to give you more control on descents but this design keeps your saddle over the BB on steep climbs. We also put some meat on the tyres with a grippy 2.3" Ground Control at the front and a stiffer Fast Trak at the rear with GRID protection at the sidewalls.

The Epic EVO also features our Brain 2.0. The OG Brain changed the way the bike world looked at suspension and oh was it good. It won races and put a flag in the ground for us as a true leader in innovation and suspension development but we knew that we could make it better. Simple physics told us that by moving the Brain closer to the rear axle it would be in the most sensitive spot. And after some lengthy R&D it's totally new. Now it reacts seamlessly to bump forces it has much more consistent damping performance and finally it integrates the hoses into the suspension links. This means that the oil paths are improved and that creates an incredibly sleek package that outperforms anything on the market.

At the heart of the construction you'll find our M5 alloy with our D'Aluisio Smartweld Technology that strategically places more welding material where it's needed resulting in an aluminium frame that's more compliant and considerably stiffer at nearly every tube juncture. It's awesome.

For the build we spec'd a 12-speed SRAM NX Eagle groupset SRAM Level TL brakes and a Roval Control Alloy wheelset.