Get out of my head, Spencer! I live in Victoria and just spent a day at Prevost and was just talking with my shop about how great the Cannibal/Butcher combo is. I moved to Mavens from Curas and the thing that has impressed me the most is their consistency. I got to the bottom of Prevost and my rear rotor was bronze and smelly but the bite and power never wavered. I’m also on the RS program. Easy to tune and service and the high speed tune is spot on. The new Vivid manages to iron everything out and not make jumping a chore. Highly impressed.
I'm sure we crossed paths! I was there on Saturday. That's awesome, I've heard mixed reviews on the Mavens - I'm glad to hear they're working well for you. Were you riding a DH bike?
I’d say cockpit and fit are #1 for me. If your body is in a weird position and you’re supporting your weight in the wrong places it doesn’t matter what parts are on the bike you’re not going to feel comfortable.
Love your content, honestly nice to hear because I do something similar. Built customs bikes for a while with a lot of the same mindset of making sure the important stuff is taken care and being totally cool with other stuff in a general “plenty good” mindset.
Agreed! I guessed tires, brakes, suspension at start of video. Just ordered the Hayes to replace the stock Codes on a new bike, after not loving the Codes lever feel on my local Squamish trails. I have XTs on my other two bikes, which are great.
Agreed. I also put a heavy emphasis on touch points. It takes time and experimentation to get dialed in there, but worth it if you’re sensitive to ergonomics. Oh, do you have a Schwalbe recommendation that would be equivalent to a Spech Butcher T9/Eliminator T7 combo?
I'd say 1- tires, 2 - brakes, 3 - the cockpit/fit which is also affected by suspension settings It's pretty common for people not to have a proper suspension setup and treating it with handlebars or something else. The bike should be comfortable in terms of fit in the first place. Also, wheels are kind of important, but in a much less extent. As for suspension - unless it's just cheap crap, the biggest affect if made by damper/tune for you. Even a simple Grip damper can be really good it if hits the sweet spot for you.
@@SpencerAstraPOV I don't like it. I've compared 38 grip2 to grip one. Grip had so little damping, so it moved much more, and there was no way to control it. 2 rebounds is more of a deal breaker for me, as I went from RS where I had issues with it. The same goes for Float X perf VS the one with LSC adjustment
@@ostankovalex1176 I have the opposite problem. I'm usually looking for higher rebound speeds than I can get with the grip two. I guess we should be glad there are options!
@@SpencerAstraPOV I weigh about 90-95kgs kitted and run 250 psi in my x2 on Altitude for example. So I'm on the higher amount of damping when dialing in compression or rebound. I had issues with shocks that didnt have HSR. Also, new gripx2 has been released today :) along with gripx
I agree with tires being #1. I also agree with brakes being #2. As for your third, I disagree. I think pedals / shoe combo is third. Fourth would be grips. My 2 cents.
Get out of my head, Spencer! I live in Victoria and just spent a day at Prevost and was just talking with my shop about how great the Cannibal/Butcher combo is. I moved to Mavens from Curas and the thing that has impressed me the most is their consistency. I got to the bottom of Prevost and my rear rotor was bronze and smelly but the bite and power never wavered. I’m also on the RS program. Easy to tune and service and the high speed tune is spot on. The new Vivid manages to iron everything out and not make jumping a chore. Highly impressed.
I'm sure we crossed paths! I was there on Saturday. That's awesome, I've heard mixed reviews on the Mavens - I'm glad to hear they're working well for you. Were you riding a DH bike?
tyres/grips/seat are of course the first must do, Suspension, wheels, carbon bar the following ones
how can you speak so calm but shred so hard? its kinda magical
I’d say cockpit and fit are #1 for me. If your body is in a weird position and you’re supporting your weight in the wrong places it doesn’t matter what parts are on the bike you’re not going to feel comfortable.
I was having the same thought on why everyone was speccing the codes. I switched to SLX and could not be happier.
Love your content, honestly nice to hear because I do something similar. Built customs bikes for a while with a lot of the same mindset of making sure the important stuff is taken care and being totally cool with other stuff in a general “plenty good” mindset.
Agreed! I guessed tires, brakes, suspension at start of video.
Just ordered the Hayes to replace the stock Codes on a new bike, after not loving the Codes lever feel on my local Squamish trails. I have XTs on my other two bikes, which are great.
No reason to have vague brake feel in Squamish!
@@SpencerAstraPOV Your review of the Hayes convinced me, because you're a fan of the XTs :)
Agreed. I also put a heavy emphasis on touch points. It takes time and experimentation to get dialed in there, but worth it if you’re sensitive to ergonomics.
Oh, do you have a Schwalbe recommendation that would be equivalent to a Spech Butcher T9/Eliminator T7 combo?
I’m about to order a purple magic Mary for the front and an orange tacky Chan for the rear
@@SpencerAstraPOV sweet. Bet that’d be a great combo
@@SpencerAstraPOV Super Gravity on both?
All that injury down time and no Dominions on the fire chicken?
Medical bills took top priority. 😅
I'd say 1- tires, 2 - brakes, 3 - the cockpit/fit which is also affected by suspension settings
It's pretty common for people not to have a proper suspension setup and treating it with handlebars or something else. The bike should be comfortable in terms of fit in the first place.
Also, wheels are kind of important, but in a much less extent.
As for suspension - unless it's just cheap crap, the biggest affect if made by damper/tune for you. Even a simple Grip damper can be really good it if hits the sweet spot for you.
I think I've preferred the Grip Damper to the Grip 2 on bikes in the past.
@@SpencerAstraPOV I don't like it. I've compared 38 grip2 to grip one. Grip had so little damping, so it moved much more, and there was no way to control it. 2 rebounds is more of a deal breaker for me, as I went from RS where I had issues with it.
The same goes for Float X perf VS the one with LSC adjustment
@@ostankovalex1176 I have the opposite problem. I'm usually looking for higher rebound speeds than I can get with the grip two. I guess we should be glad there are options!
@@SpencerAstraPOV I weigh about 90-95kgs kitted and run 250 psi in my x2 on Altitude for example. So I'm on the higher amount of damping when dialing in compression or rebound. I had issues with shocks that didnt have HSR.
Also, new gripx2 has been released today :) along with gripx
I agree with tires being #1. I also agree with brakes being #2. As for your third, I disagree. I think pedals / shoe combo is third. Fourth would be grips.
My 2 cents.
Touch points, you make a strong point! Speaking of I have some Chromag pedals I need to talk about eventually.