That bike is the definitive “trail” bike and with the history it has via the name… will likely remain in the Spesh lineup as the continuing evolution forever & ever.
I expect a reasonable delta in geo and suspension spec even if the pure travel was close. Spesh & others have shades of gray between this MTB spectrum these days with minor steps that still seem to be justified for enough rider sales to keep them in the lineup.
Same! That’s why I‘m scratching my head over a supposed Evo 130. I can see the Epic going 120 w/o the Brain and then the Evo the way of the dodo. If they keep the Brain they better make that Epic Pro Max Plus, but in my mind there is no need for another Epic with 10mm more travel…
While I agree that it seems pointless, there have been multiple specialized dealers posting placeholder landing pages for a ‘24 Epic 130. A few of them were caught and archived over in MTBR, and here’s one that’s still up 24 EPIC PRO 130 – Life Cycles Bike Shop
edit: This doesn’t necessarily mean that it’s 130 rear travel. It could just be that they’ll offer an Evo spec with 130 fork.
This makes the most sense to me given the other bikes in their lineup.
I’d say 130/120 for Epic Evo
Regular Epic bumped to 120/120 maybe
And then Epic WC
Hump
Finally found some time to build up a new wheelset for my XC bike. Intention was something that I can ride regularly on rough trails, but light enough to race. Wanted to keep price down as much as possible as well. Went BTLOS i29 extralights on DT Swiss 240s. Weight is 1500g. Visually and while I was building these seem to have no obvious defects and appear pretty high quality. I could have gotten down to 1350 with a lighter rim, but I wanted the 29mm internal. Total cost was $1,100 CAD, which I am very happy with!
Going to get them out ASAP, and will check back with a review. Just need this endless rain storm to let up for a bit!
should we see flight attendant sid ultimate and sidluxe sometime this year? Pre olympic? I continue toying with the idea of moving from SC/DPS to an ultimate/luxe but would hate the idea of seeing flight attendant released right after I install that remote lockout 
So they did what I did, removed the stock 190x40mm rear shock and put on a 190x45.
Even if we do see a Flight Attendant SID and SIDLuxe this year, you also have to hope that they make one for your specific bike since I’m pretty sure at least for the existing longer travel Flight Attendant setups it’s bike-specific (brand, model, and year). Depending on which bike and how new your bike is/if a newer model has been released already, it may not be something worth waiting around on.
That was mostly clearance as opposed to tune or anything wasn’t it?
I’m picking most XC bikes will be able to run them. I’m trying to think of possible issues, maybe oiz?
I thought it was tune as well, but maybe I’m wrong.
I have a current BLUR TR, there is a specific sidluxe for both the 100mm blur as well as the 115mm blur tr in the SRAM sku list, so I’d hope I’d see one for the Blur released
I’m only guessing, I guess the tune can be customised just like any other shock/fork. Most the XC stuff appears to be pretty similar.
The Blur is one of the bikes it’s been seen on so am sure it’ll be with the release.
Anyone know if the AXS dropper will get an upgrade in 2024 to push button drop instead of push down?
Like the BMC auto drop frame? Seems unlikely, as that would require totally new hardware and likely significantly increase the weight. I think the only reason it works on that BMC frame is because they have more space by making the dropper part of the frame.
that’s a dang shame.
Looks like a new scott trail/enduro bike, given the rear pivot and Zeb fork it’s not an XC bike
Yeah I was wondering about that. It is XC-adjacent since it is Nino. 
