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...Marin confuse me. From their website...
What they call their "trail" bikes:
The Attack Trail is designed and built for more classic all-mountain riding, with 150-160mm travel full-suspension
What they call their "enduro" bikes:
...it’s all for the thrill of the downhill...140mm of fixed travel... Design features include a build that’s significantly lighter than our Attack Trail bikes, achieved with a simplified suspension system, fixed-travel 32mm chassis forks, and lighter components...where riders need the geometry of a trail bike but the weight and efficiency of a cross-country (XC) bike
So trail is all-mountain now, but enduro is for those for whom downhill is more important, yet lighter and less travel than their trail bikes and hence more "XC"??!! Someone needs to sack their entire marketing department.
I think they are using the old meaning of Enduro here, more like Marathon XC, rather than the new meaning.
I think they are using the old meaning of Enduro here
That's what I thought at first, but comments like "it's all for the thrill of the downhill" suggest the marketing department don't quite know which type of enduro they're talking about 🙄
Its just a mountain bike, some have more suspension some less some are lighter than others. I dont get involved in the different bikes for different things.
It's all about compromise, FWIW I ride everything on a mega but if I did race it would be a wagon wheel with 130-140mm maybe less, don't get hung up on it
Its all marketing making us all believe we need different bikes for different things. I do absolutely everything on my SC Nomad even the Manchester to Blackpool and commuting to work.
Trail = off road
Enduro = mountain biking
But what size wheels do they have?!?
for a do it all UK (proper mountains) handle everything bike then 150/160 sounds great. To race (gravity) Enduro seriously would probably result in a slight drop in travel or weight and move to win or nothing approach. If I wanted to go and have fun it would be somewhere in the middle.
Marketing team in Full Of Sh*t socker