Excellent review my dude. Riding the Spire in BC has been incredible and I can't wait to bring it home in Washington for some of those sweet trails

@LoamerMTB

4 ай бұрын

C’mon down! Love the BC riding but the WA flow is nice too.

Great review. FYI for anyone with the float X2 fox is sawping them out free for a 2024 model (updated internals rep said). My x2 out of box was bad. Im blown away how well it pedals so far, even with a bad shock.

@LoamerMTB

4 ай бұрын

I need to exchange mine. Thanks for the reminder! Swapped straight to coil so it’s still unused.

@FLY1NF1SH

3 күн бұрын

Mines at fox being "evaluated" right now lol

Your review of the Spire is one of the best I’ve seen or read. I’ve had one for about 6mo and I agree with all your observations about the Spire. It’s so much more of an all round trail bike than I expected when I bought it. So much so that I rarely want to ride my Evil Offering because it seems like the Spire can do everything the Offering can do and more. Most of the reviews that I’ve read about this bike make such a huge deal about how long it is, but I think they’re blowing it out of proportion.

@LoamerMTB

4 ай бұрын

Thank you! Sounds like we had a similar experience. I haven’t ridden my Spur since I picked up the Spire because it’s so much fun. Really surprising how fun it is on fast and chunky blue trails.

So good looking bike

While riding with you in the Midwest, I got the negatives of this platform solidly imbedded in my slightly plastic aging brain. All jokes aside, It was refreshing to see the bike come alive in its birthplace of Bellingham. Really rad review!

@LoamerMTB

4 ай бұрын

You can definitely attest to the overbiked misery I was experiencing on the lower angle stuff. Wish I had the camera rolling so I could show my live disdain in the review 😂

Great review! After hearing this, and listening to Andrew Gehn have very similar praise for his Spire, I’d definitely have one of these in my garage, IF I wasn’t located in the Twin Cities Metro area. I just can’t pull the trigger on so much bike with the relatively flat and smooth trails in my neighborhood. Would be fun to have up in Duluth and the North Shore though…. Loved the riding clips you put together on this vid 👌

@LoamerMTB

4 ай бұрын

Thanks! Yeah it was a great time in Duluth for sure! What bike are you riding at the moment?

@robonbikes

4 ай бұрын

I’m on a Santa Cruz Tallboy. Works great for the majority of trails I ride. I’d love to get something a little beefier. Did you like your ripmo? As of now that’s my top next-in-line choice!

Killer review! The Spire fits you quite well indeed

@LoamerMTB

4 ай бұрын

Thank you! Yeah always nice to be smack dab in the middle of the size chart so I don’t have to think about sizing.

sick video!

@LoamerMTB

4 ай бұрын

Thanks! Had to include some of the CCDH run in the review 😂

Great overview of the Spire with all the gnarly footage from the PNW and Great Lakes Region to back up the talking points! Agree with everything in the video, Spire smashes the steeps while somehow not punishing the rider on the climb back up like the geometry numbers would suggest, even with both of us running full cush core and double down tires. Rode in the low 62.5 setting before switching to the "high" 63 degree and it rides better that way, less pedal strikes. I will also add that Transition has some excellent customer service, my Spire's bottom bracket shell delaminated from the frame unfortunately but Transition stands by their product and I'm on a new Huckleberry XL front triangle this season, time to GiddyUp!

@LoamerMTB

4 ай бұрын

Nice! Sounds like we are running pretty similar setups. How did you like the bike in the slack setting? Notice a big different outside of less pedal strikes?

@AndrewGehn

4 ай бұрын

@@LoamerMTB I didn’t notice a big enough difference to justify all the pedal strikes AND bottom bracket strikes in the low position. Maybe it felt a fraction better on the steepest of steeps like the ending rock roll on Dr. Diablo in Piedmont, but the front wheel wanders even more and you sit even deeper between the wheels. Might be worth it on steep, smooth flow trails where rock strikes aren’t an issue, but 63 is definitely the right setting for the vast majority of riders.

Great review, looking at a spire as my next bike now. My current bike is a v5 Nomad (27.5) but at 6’5, I’m thinking 29er might be the way forward. Do you have any experience to compared the nomad or sentinel to the spire? Cheers

@LoamerMTB

12 күн бұрын

I’d say the Sentinel would be a better all around bike if it’s your only bike but if you have a trail bike as well the Spire might be a good addition. I don’t know much about the Nomad vs Spire. Haven’t ridden any SCs but they look sick!

@ryanstewart7725

12 күн бұрын

@@LoamerMTB Yeah, I keep jumping between the sentinel and the spire. Would be my only bike, so guess the sentinel might be the better shout! Looking for the most poppy, playful bike possible, that can still handle some uplift/bike park days and I think sentinel checks the boxes.

@ryanstewart7725

12 күн бұрын

@@LoamerMTB …and the nomad is sick!! But the geo feels a bit small as they only went up to XL at the time. Looking at XXL transitions

@LoamerMTB

12 күн бұрын

@@ryanstewart7725 Sounds like the Sentinel would be perfect!

@FLY1NF1SH

3 күн бұрын

​@@ryanstewart7725Im 6'6" and ride an XXL spire, 100% you should go for the sentinel imo. Love my bike but I'm definitely overbiked in nearly every ride I go on lol

At $6k starting price; a carbon Spire better change my life

@LoamerMTB

4 ай бұрын

I wouldn’t be paying full price for anything right now. Great time to be a buyer.

@DavidFoundCo

4 ай бұрын

If you can’t negotiate with a bike shop on pricing for a bike that’s been out for a while then that’s all on you

@chrism5768

4 ай бұрын

I just bought an xl xt built for 4200 or 4300 direct from transition 2 weeks ago.