Glad we could help Jake! Sounds like a sweet build. How do you like the wicked wills?

Hell yeah I know the blue you're talking about that's such a great color! I'm torn between flight attendant and the twistloc. Really don't want to add more cables to the bike and give up my ergon grips. Don't want to add batteries to the bike either. Decisions...

I'm in the same position as you, I have an Sworks Epic Evo 7, and the one massive improvement I would like to do is the Flight Attendant. Would we be able to fit the Flight Attendant rear shock on our frames, or will it only be the forks that are backwards compatible? Our frames have 110mm rear travel, whereas the new 8 has 120mm rear travel, so wasn't sure about compatibility. Any thoughts or ideas? Thank you in advance 👍🙏

@@jonoharper4729 our frame (Epic Evo 7) is the only bike not currently in production that will have a SID Flight Attendant shock available. Probably because it was a test bed for Rockshox. My bike shop said his SRAM rep said it’ll be available for order sometime in April. I’m first in line! 🤞Good news too is we don’t have to buy the whole fork, just a replacement damper.

​​@@samharris82 That's fantastic news, you're ahead of the game. Really appreciate the update. I'll get on to my LBS this week and pre order the parts. Thanks Sam, go well, enjoy your rides mate 🙏👊

I also have the navy sworks epic evo 7 and love it. Will be adding flight attendant when it becomes available. Looks like I can get front shock and power meter but not the rear shock yet.

An Epic Evo 7 would be an awesome first mountain bike! Glad we could help! Welcome to the dark side once you start mountain biking you might never want to ride the road again lol

Don't get me wrong I'd love to have the 8. I just can't justify the cost vs improvement. I'm adding Flight Attendant suspension to my Evo 7 I think this will really compliment the more active suspension of the bike and make it that much faster.

Depends how fit you are. Bike will only go as fast as you can power and pilot it. Everything equal Ebikes will always be faster bc they have a motor providing additional power.

@HandlebarVentures thanks! Yeah, I try to keep my cycling up and I also do a lot of upper bodyweight exercises, but for some reason, I go slow. When I sprint for about 20 minutes in the heaviest gear, my legs feel heavy. I constantly go up and down the stairs and am constantly active, but for some reason, am slow on the bike.

See if you can find somewhere to demo them! You might have to travel a bit, but it's definitely worth it before dropping all that money on a bike! Good luck!

@@HandlebarVentures thanks! I have test ride on both bikes but I still can’t decide.

Let us know which one you decide on!

So the decision was sort of made for me by Specialized. I ran into a situation where I wanted to cancel my order at one shop and buy a bike closer to home but shop said they would have to charge me a 15% restocking fee. So I called customer service to find out if such a thing was true and I wind up having a great 45 minute conversation with them about bikes and races and life in general and the next day I called the shop to tell him yes cancel order I don’t care I want to buy it closer to home and he said well Specialized is offering you 30% off sale price so I had no choice, picked up the WC for $4899

Wow that's awesome and one heck of a deal! Enjoy the new ride!

I think the Evo version will appeal to a lot of people as a lightweight trail bike.

Longer frame and the SWAT storage add some weight. Still a light frame considering, but the epic evo gen 7 was about as light as it gets!

@@HandlebarVentures I'll hang-on to my gen 7 for another season; just a bit over 23lb with pedals, Garmin, bottle cage, and tubeless flat repair kit (in the bars)

Glad you agree 🤝 Epic Evo 7 was and is such a great bike it's hard to top it.