Is it a trail bike or an aggressive trail bike? Or both?
Rewoga Reviews a 2010 Banshee Spitfire
about f'n time
"Nobody really gives a shit that you don't like the thing that you have no firsthand experience with." Dave
The delay is my fault not Andrew's. My apologies.
Holy crap, checked out Banshee's site after reading the review…not sure when Banshee reworked their website but the current site is awful. The layout makes it really hard to read…actually makes me want to leave the site. And I'm pretty sure that isn't what they were going for.
Solid review. More like this plz.
Nice review, lots of thought has gone into it and useful information for us to take away. Well done.
Nice review, lots of thought has gone into it and useful information for us to take away. Well done.
Plus 1.
I'm blushing! Thanks guys!
ha, i remember that poem from school, always liked it.
good read! and IMO the timing is great - nice to see pics of dry trails when it's wet and mucky outside.
nice review andrew
it was really impressionistic. i would have like to see a bit more meta - considerations of the 'radical' angles (for a trail bike), suspension characteristics, insights from a reforming dh'r, etc. - but you focussed on the ride which should be the main point of a bike review
one niggling point: you mentioned when you were selling the deus cranks that you'd reveal why in your review. care to elaborate on the impetus for the part swap?
"Nobody really gives a shit that you don't like the thing that you have no firsthand experience with." Dave
good review.
you mention 2 disturbing things - it bobs badly when hammering out of the saddle, and it blows through travel on medium-size drops. these both sound unacceptable for a 5/6 inch bike. can you elaborate?
it was really impressionistic. i would have like to see a bit more meta - considerations of the 'radical' angles (for a trail bike), suspension characteristics, insights from a reforming dh'r, etc. - but you focussed on the ride which should be the main point of a bike review
'radical'? Really? More like trend setting…
one niggling point: you mentioned when you were selling the deus cranks that you'd reveal why in your review. care to elaborate on the impetus for the part swap?
Couldn't mount the Stinger with the RF cranks.
good review.
you mention 2 disturbing things - it bobs badly when hammering out of the saddle, and it blows through travel on medium-size drops. these both sound unacceptable for a 5/6 inch bike. can you elaborate?
Let's be clear - it's a 5 inch bike. It's not designed for hits and I think the term is "bobs noticeably" - when you're over 200 lbs, its not that hard to make any fully bob and even some hard tails…
of course, I could have set up the rear suspension stiffer (i.e. more air pressue) to compensate, but then I would have lost small bump compliance and overall "rail-ability".
Let's be clear - it's a 5 inch bike. It's not designed for hits and I think the term is "bobs noticeably" - when you're over 200 lbs, its not that hard to make any fully bob and even some hard tails…
of course, I could have set up the rear suspension stiffer (i.e. more air pressue) to compensate, but then I would have lost small bump compliance and overall "rail-ability".
Sounds like an issue with limitations to the design. I know a few other 5 inch bikes whith both small bump compliance and big hit performance.
While the demo version I rode was pre-production with a different shock, it demonstrated some of the same characteristics…
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infomercial! j/k. i really like the idea of this bike (ie, more aggressive dh oriented geometry). i hope we'll start seeing more frames with numbers like this (like the knolly chilcotin), rather than the long-legged xc bikes we have currently. the spitfire was a top next bike candidate, but as you've reinforced, might be a bit lightweight [HTML_REMOVED] short-legged for my wants. good intel. waiting for banshee to do a slammed iteration of the rune…
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