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08-03-2019, 06:47 PM #151Registered User
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I had a carbon Slayer C50 last summer and the bike is a ton of fun on anything not pure XC. It makes the pure XC a little too easy. You really can’t go wrong with the Slayer C30 you demoed at that price. It will be a great downcountry (I love that term) and park bike. A note about carbon, I beat the crap out of my bike. Thought I cracked the frame at Downieville I blew up in a rock garden so bad, took a 6in by 3 in chunk of paint off the frame, but no damage to the carbon. Rocky Mountain builds some tough as nails carbon bikes, so I wouldn’t be worried about carbon v aluminum with them, or really anyone.
Transition Patrol and Sentinel are awesome carbon and aluminum bikes too. If I moved back east and I’d keep my Sentinel or Scout (27.5) or Smuggler (29er) (Transitions versions of the 5010). Those guys beat up their bikes more then the average Joe will ever and they come back kicking.
Way to go on the SB165 buy! Stoked for pics!!
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08-03-2019, 11:26 PM #152
I have a scout and it’s a great little bike but if I was looking for a trail bike that i could also use in the park I’d look for more travel. I find that extra travel gives a safety margin that allows me to try more lines and advance. Slayer would be great in the park and people have said in the thread it pedals well but depending on how much use outside the park the altitude may suit the usage more. Depends. For outside the park it’s also possible to pick up a used air shock off pinkbike at a reasonable price to make the travel less for pedal days(same eye to eye just less stroke). My scout isn’t cutting it for a one bike rule them all atm. I’m looking at a commencal clash or the devinci spartan. Seem to have the numbers and best price point I’ve found. Similar parts , clash is a bit cheaper but it has a lower end shock. Add a dropper to the bottom of the line model clash for the smoking deal, or spartan 9er aluminium with a coil rear shock and 27.5 rear wheel in your tool box for park days. For a long travel 9er it has some giddy up for daily pedals
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08-04-2019, 09:54 AM #153
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08-04-2019, 10:07 AM #154
Thanks for the replies, guys. I’m thinking I have mellow XC trails covered with my vintage XC race bike, it makes those trails feel more exciting, it’s fun to ride I just need some beefier wheels for it. I guess I have to decide whether or not I want to have a bike that I pedal more around the rougher trails at home, or gear the bike more toward riding lifts / downcountry area trips. A 150mmish bike may do both. I just loved that Slayer, and $2400 with help when it breaks feels like a good deal.
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08-05-2019, 08:04 PM #155
So I was pretty much in the exact same boat as you last summer. Had been on my Kona Process 134 for three years, but started getting much more into weekend trips to the bike park. (I'm in Montreal so less than an hour to Bromont). The aluminum process bikes are totally bomber, but 134 for a day at the bike park really beats you up. I was looking for something that would allow me to progress at the bike park but still be fun for regular trail riding.
I demoed the slayer last summer and then picked up a C30 on a good price (although not as good as you can get).
The Ride 4 is amazing in terms of how it transforms the bike. For trail riding, i keep it in the steepest setting. Here it feels like a totally normal trail bike, with just a lot extra on reserve. It climbs tech shockingly well. I've gotten up some of the nastiest, wettest rootiest no flow east coast trails on it, to the point where I'm like I don't have any clue how it worked. (I'm not that good of a rider). Also easy to pop it off any little root or rock and send yourself flying.
When I ride park I just drop it into the slackest position, and its just settles into berms and corners and makes jumping so easy. Again I'm not rad, but I've progressed to feeling really comfortable on 10 foot table tops, and 5-6 foot drops this year. As Grinch noted having more bike when you start trying shit out of your skill/comfort zone can be a life saver.
As far as the c30 build is concerned, obviously any of it can be upgraded, but for just trail riding, your good to go. The Deluxe RT keeps the bike feeling lively. The rear cassette 10-42 can really make you work on longer steeper climbs but I just chose to look at that as reason to get in better shape. The c30 definitely feels like a trail build.
In the park the biggest downer are the Guide brakes. They are super under powered and I feel like my hands are about to fall off at the end of day. The are going soon. The Yari holds up really well everywhere for me.
My short term plan is to pick up a Marzocchi Bomber CR coil and just swap it in for park days, change the breaks and keep riding the living shit out of it.
Finally I'm not going to lie, as life long metal head, the fact that Rocky named this bike after my favorite thrash band sealed the deal.
Just saw Slayer last week on their farewell tour. The bike is worthy.
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08-05-2019, 10:40 PM #156
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08-05-2019, 11:38 PM #157Registered User
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I left my slayer in the second slackest setting and never touched it, it was fine for anything I did out west. I would upgrade the brakes, I had the C50 with XT brakes and was planning on getting the 4 piston XT brakes when they were available. My Sentinel came with Code RSC’s and I haven’t felt any brake fade on them yet. A whole day at Whistler definitely did a number on the pads (I know stop dragging my back brake), but they never faded once. They get a huge vote of confidence.
When I get the Sentinel, the guys at Transition moved the brake levers in to my first knuckle, and I was skeptical, but wow, it’s made a huge difference. I was always a lever under the tip of my finger guy, but I’m 1000% sold on under the first knuckle now.
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08-06-2019, 08:00 AM #158
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08-06-2019, 08:40 AM #159
Which "New" Bike? Nomad/Patrol/Insurgent/?
Nice. Feel free to PM — this place is selling more bikes, maybe they have one in your size, I ride a medium frame. I’m leaning toward getting this Slayer, sounds like I can easily sell it if I want to down the line.
Thanks for the feedback, Shu, it reinforces a lot of what I’ve been spinning in my head and felt on the bike. I couldn’t get over what I could just sit down and pedal over on that thing. And I figured my plus hardtail was tough to beat when it came to that, but the Slayer was better at it.
Here’s a pic from the first wing of the tour last JuneLast edited by Self Jupiter; 08-06-2019 at 09:04 AM.
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08-06-2019, 11:41 AM #160
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08-16-2019, 01:44 PM #161
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08-16-2019, 01:59 PM #162
Hey - it's not broken!
Yet.
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08-16-2019, 02:13 PM #163Registered User
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08-19-2019, 12:37 PM #164
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08-19-2019, 02:21 PM #165pura vida
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08-19-2019, 03:03 PM #166
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08-19-2019, 03:13 PM #167pura vida
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yeah, i've had some friends have similar problems. yeti replaced the frames for them but it was a bit of a wait.
is that blood?
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08-19-2019, 03:19 PM #168
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08-19-2019, 03:22 PM #169
I just put a 140mm fork on my SB 100, I am seriously tempting fate.
Forum Cross Pollinator, gratuitously strident
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08-19-2019, 07:27 PM #170
certainly looks like blood.... Yeti so strong it broke his leg! (before it broke)
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08-20-2019, 12:53 PM #171www.dpsskis.com
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formerly an ambassador for a few others, but the ski industry is... interesting.
Fukt: a very small amount of snow.
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08-20-2019, 02:41 PM #172Registered User
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08-26-2019, 04:46 PM #173
Transition is selling all of its Patrols for 20% off. I just upgraded my 2017 aluminum Patrol to the 2019 car-bone.
Speaking of which, I am selling my 2017 Patrol in large. Will post a FS soon. I LOVE this bike, and did not even consider a different model when deciding to break my bank.sproing!
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08-26-2019, 04:57 PM #174
Which "New" Bike? Nomad/Patrol/Insurgent/?
Anyone been on a Patrol and/or a DeVinci Spartan or Rocky Mountain Slayer? Care to compare or take a couple PMs? That’s a nice deal, feels like the bike is well spec’d at full price compared to a lot of competitors. Seems like a great deal at 20% off.
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08-26-2019, 05:51 PM #175Registered User
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