Indeed, owning a Range as a trail bike, to sit alongside a purebred DH bike, seems like an exercise in pedaling futility! :-) But you're not the only person to signal that Norco did something special with that bike -- having owned a Druid and subsequently a Dreadnought, and ridden a few of the new crop of longer-travel HSP/HVP bikes, the Range clearly takes the cake in the breadth of its suspension capabilities.
I'm quite curious about the Spire as an option to sit between the Range-class quasi-DH bike and the Sentinel/Stumpy Evo/Sight-class all-mountain bike. Did you keep the Spire around after your review for long-term riding?
May 10, 2022, 10:09 a.m. - gubbinalia
Indeed, owning a Range as a trail bike, to sit alongside a purebred DH bike, seems like an exercise in pedaling futility! :-) But you're not the only person to signal that Norco did something special with that bike -- having owned a Druid and subsequently a Dreadnought, and ridden a few of the new crop of longer-travel HSP/HVP bikes, the Range clearly takes the cake in the breadth of its suspension capabilities. I'm quite curious about the Spire as an option to sit between the Range-class quasi-DH bike and the Sentinel/Stumpy Evo/Sight-class all-mountain bike. Did you keep the Spire around after your review for long-term riding?