Gravity bike specialist Evil freely admits it never thought it would make a short travel 29er. But then, this is no ordinary 120mm travel wagon wheeler.
With its slabs of carbon swingarm, Monarch shock buried in the belly of its low, long front, short rear stance and a 30 percent recommendation on the built-in sag meter, the Following looks like a totally gravity focused machine. The Dave Weagle designed DELTA linkage doesn’t just let you adjust ride height (the super sized headset allows an adjustable angle headset option too), it also creates carefully calculated shock velocity and spring rate changes through the mid and end stroke.
Short, feels long
The result is a rock-solid, race-tuned rear end that’s certainly not configured for comfort but converts 121mm of travel into an implausible amount of impact-ignorant speed. Crucially, wherever you are in the travel, feedback is razor sharp and control and ground connection absolute, so you can snap sprint towards the next corner or take off wherever you’ve got crank clearance.
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The Weagle-designed DELTA linkage wrings far more than it should out of 121mm travel
The frame is also extremely stiff and teamed with the 35mm diameter bar and stem, and high traction Maxxis tyres you’ll discover you’re able to hook ridiculously aggressive lines and slingshot out of berms in a way that’ll have you recalibrating what’s possible after every bar-end-scraping corner.
Jaw-dropping punch
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