Salsa Spearfish First Ride Review

The rain itself managed to stay off for most of our ride at worst a. The Spearfish offers good front-end stiffness through a tapered head tube and robust top and down tube junction.

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This bike pedals incredibly well and is super playful going downhill.

Salsa spearfish first ride review. The 6th bike I demod was the Salsa Spearfish. 2019 Salsa Horsethief trail bike is no one-trick pony. First ride was a gentle ride over to Epsom Downs and back with Kevin on his newly SS converted Specialized Stumpy.

The Spearfish is the shorter travel brother of Salsas Horsethief a 120140mm do-it-all niner and its frame geometry is a bit more cross-country focused. The Horsethief is Salsas 120mm travel trail bike. It took a lot out of me but I was getting the feel for the bike as well and it performed great in our muddy routes.

With a 67-degree head tube angle and 140mm of travel up front the bike is geared to be a versatile all-arounder. Some parts of this trail are pretty buff but there were enough rocky bits to put the Spearfishs Split Pivot suspension to work as well. Great bikeRide at your own risk.

The proliferation of 1x and 2x drivetrains has completely. Dont fear the 80mm of travel because it is single pivot and it feels about like a 100mm Niner or other multi-link 29er. Though our test ride was short our time on the Spearfish was quite enjoyable.

Speaking of which the former Spearfish holds a place in the record books with Neil Beltchenkos current Arizona Trail Race 300 record 1 day 23 hours and 13 minutes. Its a short-travel trail bike designed for long haul rides with a hint of a fat bike flotation in the form of plus tires and suspension. Salsa claims both bikes see significant gains in rear-end stiffness.

The improvement in tracking and rear-end tightness on the Spearfish is significant making this bike an absolute hooty-hoo to ride. Salsa Spearfish a so far review I am yet to cover any considerable amount of mileage yet on this bike but for the first time with the numerous mountain bikes Ive had in recent years Not counting my poor Genesis Mantle that did 1000 commuting miles this one however will be staying with me for a long while yet. The Spearfish is the shortest travel bike in this group and it falls nicely into the current crop of progressive XC rigs.

Spearfish Carbon XTR is a light and agile XC and endurance mountain machine for when every ounce of effort matters Salsa Spearfish is an agile trail bike with thoughtful touches on all 10 available builds. Large and it sits at about 245lb with pedals with 1600gr wheels cable pull disc brakes xtxtr 9sp drive train and a reba. I got to ride the Carbon NX Eagle model on Arizonas Black Canyon Trail and felt like I just scratched the surface of the bikes abilities.

These include model with carbon or aluminum frames and different quality groupsets such as XTR XT GX SX SLX NX and Deore. While the Spearfishs front end is a bit shorter with an effective top tube of 6135mm its reach is roughly 7mms. There its easy-going handling pedal efciency and big wheel steamroller-over-everything gait tames terrain to a point where you appear to be riding slower but are actually going faster than on.

We had a great couple of days riding the new bikes with the Salsa. First Ride Review. The 2019 Salsa Spearfish is positioned as a 29 progressive XC bike.

First ride on the Salsa Spearfish Steady drizzle all night meant it was going to be a sloppy ride in places. With 29 wheels 120mm of rear travel and a 140mm fork Salsa Cycles 2019 Horsethief is a well-rounded trail machine. Featuring 100mm of Split Pivot suspension and a 120mm fork its gained 20mm travel in the rear over its predecessor.

Salsas New Spearfish and Horsethief. The frame has 100mm of rear-wheel travel and is coupled with a 120mm fork. 21 percent for the Spearfish and 18 percent for the Horsethief.

The Salsa Spearfish is a beam of sunshine in this cold dark winter showing me that I can still put big miles away climb like a youngster and descend like I dont have a job to go to on Monday. Salsa Deadwood design details. I bought just the frame built it as a race bike.

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