Specialized Enduro Test Bike
A longer term test is obviously in order but color me impressed.
Specialized enduro test bike. Bike of the year 2020. The specialized s works enduro is one of the quietest if not the quietest bike in the test field complete silence. Incredibly capable surprisingly manageable and not so bad on the uphills. The 2019 season saw loads of exciting new and even more capable enduro bikes introduced.
Specialized enduro comp 650 kit frame geometry stays the same as on the 2018 enduro with 170mm of travel steve behr immediate media the component highlight is the rockshox lyrik rc fork. Enduro suspension front rear. The enduro is a downhill bike with lower gearing a single crown fork and a bit. Head to our bike of the year hub for the full list of winners.
What was specialized trying to achieve with the redesign of the enduro. Find the full review. 29 i ntroduced over 10 years ago the specialized enduro has continued to set benchmarks for mountain bike technology with each new model. So when we heard the bike had been redesigned for 2020 including all new suspension kinematics we were eager to learn where the category leading bike would take us and the sport next.
The new specialized enduro can do no wrong. Take a look at the numbers above comparing the new enduro to specialized s 200mm travel demo race downhill bike. The test field in this enduro group test. The venerable enduro received a massive makeover for 2020 and the result is a bike that looks a whole lot like specialized s demo downhill race machine minus the dual crown fork.
But everything else about this s works spec was spot on. If you like bikes like this you will like this bike. The specialized enduro comp is part of our annual bike of the year test.