The bike-creating brothers Chris and Lance (yes they’re American) Canfield built their reputation with bomber downhill machines. It’s little surprise then that their 29er hardtail is more trail rager than uptight cross-country machine.
That said we were surprised how rapid and forgiving the Yelli Screamy was when we lit up our local trails while putting it through its paces. And that wasn't just because of the Canfield reputation and Suicidal Tendencies-style skull head badge that has made the bikes so popular among gravity warriors.
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The main frame itself is a mixture of stout round tubes, including an oversized head tube barrel backed up by a very long old-school gusset plate under the throat. The seat tube slants steeply backward from a forward offset footing in a multi-piece cut-and-shut bottom bracket assembly to enable very short 424mm chainstays that butt onto wide-spaced machined terminals for fat rubber clearance.
In other words, it sounds like a recipe for a tight ass-kicking ride – and the fact that Canfield also makes a presumably more ductile and forgiving 4130 cro-mo steel Nimble 9 suggests that even Chris and Lance think the Yelli is a bit on the savage side.
Gung-ho character
That meant I hit the first long stepped section on our local gorge run with seat slammed and braced for the worst. Even with the Pike fork hammering out a heavy-calibre machine gun rhythm on the front, the Screamy was a lot more creamy than expected. Okay, creamy is an exaggeration purely because it rhymed as, even though I tried to keep our heels down, my feet where definitely rammed into the toes of my Five Tens when I slammed on to make the tight turn at the bottom.
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