For an enduro bike should I go for the larger of the two or the smaller? At 5'7" I'm pretty much on the cusp of every size chart going!
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My height is on limit between small and medium
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Posted 5 hours ago #
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Same height and in recent year personally found it better to go medium. But try before you buy if you can, what bike?
Posted 5 hours ago # -
Same height and in recent years personally found it better to go medium. But try before you buy if you can, what bike?
Posted 5 hours ago # -
hmm, nothing worse than a bike that's too big but you also don't want to have to fit a long stem to make a small bike fit. I like short stems so would probably go medium and short stem and inline post.
Go try some out. Only way to be sure.
Posted 5 hours ago # -
It's a Vitus Escarpe...
http://www.chainreactioncycles.com/vitus-bikes-escarpe-suspension-bike-deore-1x10-2018/rp-prod159741
Posted 5 hours ago # -
I'm 5'7" and I don't think there is an enduro bike (or any bike really) that I'd go for the small. Previous bike I had (which was more XC) was small as I was borderline between small and medium, in hindsight this was a mistake.
Edit: Just seen it's an Escarpe. Modern longish geometry, similar to my current medium enduro bike. The small is longer than my old small XC bike, and would be ok to ride probably with a 60mm stem, but personally I would still prefer the medium with a 40mm stem. All depends on what your preferences are and what you want from the bike.
Posted 5 hours ago # -
I have an XC hardtail for my local trails on the South Downs but the new bike would be for Welsh Bike Parks, the Alps and possibly the Megavalanche if I can grow the balls!
Posted 4 hours ago # -
Id go small for you...heck, id go small for me too and im a bit taller; its got a long reach plus you don't want too much seattube length or you could find running a decent length dropper an issue.
Posted 4 hours ago # -
433mm seat tube on the medium isn't that long. I could run a 150mm reverb with that. Easy enough to work out what you could run based on current bike seat height. That's the advantage with a lot of these new frames with long reach and shorter seat tubes it gives you the option to go either way on the sizing depending on preference. To be fair the small escarpe is as long as some medium bikes that's haven't taken up the long, low, slack thing.
Posted 4 hours ago # -
My xc bike is a medium and feels good. The enduro is also medium but "women specific" so a slightly shorter reach. I'm 5'6".
Posted 4 hours ago # -
I'm same as you. On the cusp of sizes. I've always gone medium and got on well..
Posted 3 hours ago # -
I'm 178cm and thus I'm permanently on the line between Med and Large. I've regretted every Large I've ever bought no matter how okay it felt to begin with. I've also bought its that were too small for me. I do run a lot of post when seated, though.
TBH, I'm of the opinion that for mountain bike riding, frame sizes based on seat tube length are bollocks. Maybe not for actual XC/XCO, but for anything else where you're spending a lot of the time standing/crouching/whatever then the space between the pedals and bars is more important - although as you're not in a fixed position, you don't have a meaningful way to measure that without nailing the hip position to a single point on an arc of travel so I'm not completely clear what a better basis for size as sold would be - possibly ETT?
Posted 59 minutes ago # -
Depends if your height is in the legs or upper body. I’m the same height and fine on either, but short legs with high seat post are always more of an issue than length.
I find small is easier to have fun with on flow trails / jumps, while medium is better for steep technical enduro style trails.
Posted 44 minutes ago #
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