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Description:Same hard-working, overbuilt aluminum chassis as the Diablo 2.0, but decked out with Manitou’s Swinger 4-way coil shock and the Manitou Stance Blunt fork for 175mm of rear travel and 170mm up front. Maxxis 2.7” front and 2.5” rear High Rollers provide total traction, with a bulletproof SRAM X-7 rear derailleur and matching X-7 triggers calling the gear changes, and a TruVativ Hussefelt 36/24 crank for motive power. Big, powerful Hayes HFX-9HD discs with 8” rotors puts you in control on smoking descents.
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Submitted by
Jake Olsen
a Weekend Warrior
from Temecula, CA
Date Reviewed: April 29, 2008 | | Favoriate Trail: | Anything technical with good air time. | | Duration Product Used: | Less than 1 month | | Price Paid: |
$1400.00 | | Purchased At: | JensonUSA | | Strengths: | Burly build, good fit, and this beast inspires more confidence everytime you ride. | | Weaknesses: | Other than the stock fork, I would say NONE!! | | Similar Products Used: | '05 Ellsworth Joker, '05 Banshee Chaparall, '06 Giant Faith | | Bike Setup: | Basically stock, except for handlebars, I put on Spank Lounge bars, and XO trigger shifters, ODI Rogue grips, Crank Bros Acid pedals, and soon a Chris King reducer and Marzocchi Super T. | | Bottom Line: | The Diablo is an amazing rig for the price. Are there better--sure, but not at such a sweet deal. The Diablos Bottom Bracket IS low, so you have to watch pedal placement in technical areas(if pedaling), and in deep turns, but if you're flying through a rock garden, even the pedals out, lean back and let the Diablo do the rest! And amazingly, despite the bike being 43lbs, it still pedals well and powers up hills like a freak.
The size of this bike kicks a$$ too. I am 6'5", 230lbs, and the 19.5" fits me like a glove--even my Large Ellsworth and XL Banshee didnt fit like this. This rig is sweet, all the way around. If you are on the edge, dont think about it, just buy it, you definitely wont regret it! | Value Rating: Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Robert Davis
a Downhiller
from Titusville N.J. U.S.
Date Reviewed: April 8, 2008 | | Favoriate Trail: | All of Diablo freeride park | | Duration Product Used: | Less than 1 month | | Price Paid: |
$1390.00 | | Purchased At: | Jensonusa.com | | Strengths: | Well built frame, its sturdy and handles anything you can throw at it. I'm sure the manitou stance blunt works fine, I switched it out with a marzocchi super T and a 1.5 in reducer cup which is sick by the way. | | Weaknesses: | There were only two weaknesses with my bike and one (well possibly both were due to a mechanic error, not mechanical, a mechanic)was due to someone who didn't know too much about bikes, despite him working in a bike shop. The first problem was the wireing (wiring, wyring, whatever)its a little wierd. wires going here there and everywhere and the one that connected to the back brake actually kinked because it wasn't pulled taught enough, however after a new wire and some electrical tape we solved that problem. The other problem I am to believe was partially due to poor product quality (due to the reviews)and a mechanic error (mind you its a person not a part, the same person that is now my mechanic and will be working on my bike before I go bombing down hills this summer at races... awesome.) he basically dismembered the rear swinger 4 way shock to put the new spring on when all you had to do was take off the top piece and slip off the old one off. well never the less the seals blew and it began to leak. who knows when I'll get that back but I'm planning on ordering a revox isx due to the great reviews (it seems as though manitou finally got their sh!t straight,(strait,strayte, what f*cking ever) | | Similar Products Used: | none in this category, I had a Giant pistol 1 which I beat the hell out of but that was so I could see what direction of MTBiking I wanted to take... | | Bike Setup: | Stock 1.0 except for the Supert T up front and hopefully the new revox in the back | | Bottom Line: | This bike despite wiring, wireing, wyering (still can't figure out how to spell that stupid f*cking word)and rear shock in my case is phenominal, I got the smallest (15.5 in) and because its got an almost rediculously low center of gravity, it corners like god himself decendeded from the heavens and sits on you handlebars smiling pleasantly as you blast through corners, leaving others wondering how you did it and who the F*CK that old man sitting on your handlebars was. If your not sure if you want to get into freeriding or downhilling, but know that you want to do something stupid on a mountain bike, you can't go wrong with the diablo, its incredibly priced right now at jensonusa.com and depending what way you choose you can adjust the bike to better suit your path. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Gravity Assist
a Downhiller
from El Centro CA,
Date Reviewed: June 14, 2007 | | Favoriate Trail: | Anderson truck, Corral & Nobal Canyons, Fontana | | Duration Product Used: | 1 Year | | Price Paid: |
$850.00 | | Purchased At: | gift. | | Strengths: | A nice even break between too much, and too little. nicely overbuilt, still pretty light for what it is, I like the 12mm x 150mm rear spacing on it; it makes it more compatible with DH set ups. has oversized bearings at the pivot, and a drop it for a floating brake mount, should you ever want one... | | Weaknesses: | bottom brackett is a little low for a freeride/ Dh hibrid bike,and you can't adjust the high/low speed compression properly without taking the shock off because its hidden in the frame... sucks! should have welded drop-ins for complete cable mounts instead of segmented spots where you have to cut and size the cable; due to the high strain, put on bikes like these, segmented cables often blow with a quickness... but what ever. | | Similar Products Used: | Trek Session, Raliegh Ram XT, King Fisher, Haro Werx 7 SP180, santa cruz bullet, and more, I just can't remember them all. | | Bike Setup: | FSA Gravity group, Fox 40/ manitou travis TPC | | Bottom Line: | This bike is truly underated! I've ether owned or tried just about every bike in its class,( new age 7 inch travel 1.5 standard FREERIDE) and with the exeption the Haro Werx 7 and the Santa cruz Bullit, This bike pretty much beats em all in feeling, hucks, and jumps. It pedals pretty nice as well for what it is... it is very nicely spec'd nothing cheap, all very nice... Oh, and not that this bike was made to climb or anything, but it doesn't do a bad job...
I mean think about it, you don't want to over-pay for a garbage trek session 77, or something like that... definately look into this... its worth a try if anything.
I live in the Socal area, and hit a lot of these high-end enduro/ entry-level DH trails, and this bike is perfect for all of it,, its travel( which feels like a little more then 7 inches) is very nicely tuned, comes with manitou's most high-end Ti shock, unbeatable... you can run this bike, thrash it, crash it, and it still keeps going.
I did, however, break the seat tube completely off, which, if I may add, Jamis has a Superb warranty coverage... returned the frame within a week! All I had to do was send em some pic's of the damage. And I believe the seatpost issue to be an anomoly or factory defect on that frame, have had no problems with the new one.
Can't go wrong if you want a slightly heavy, but very agressive do-it-all Mountain bike that you can thrash, and not have to worry about completely re-tuning the bike when you get home... | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Alex Wilson
a Downhiller
from Somserset
Date Reviewed: July 11, 2006 | | Favoriate Trail: | Diablo freeride park | | Duration Product Used: | 3 months | | Price Paid: |
$1250.00 | | Purchased At: | | | Strengths: | Awesome geometry equaling amazing handling and great feel over drops, jumps, turns and anything you throw at it!!!very well specked and good reliably suspension design... | | Weaknesses: | None except for the Manitou front fork which right out of the box issues occured | | Similar Products Used: | Azonic DS-1, Kona Stinky, Giant dh, Demo 8... | | Bike Setup: | Stock | | Bottom Line: | There is nothing out there better for the money. Personally looking for a great geometry and i found it with this bike. AWESOME BIKE!!!!!!! | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Eldon Hansen
a Weekend Warrior
from San Antonio, TX, USA
Date Reviewed: July 6, 2006 | | Favoriate Trail: | Macallister | | Duration Product Used: | Less than 1 month | | Price Paid: |
$1900.00 | | Purchased At: | DROP ZONE CYCLING | | Strengths: | Smooth ride!! Nothing gets in its way, very fun bike. Currently it is more bike then I can handle. I am still trying to get the courage to use this bike for what it is made for. | | Weaknesses: | None that I have found yet. | | Similar Products Used: | I used to have a Schwinn Mesa GS. | | Bike Setup: | Stock except for the pedals, Perfect for me | | Bottom Line: | Highly recomend this bike. You cant go wrong with this bike. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
David Scheer
a Cross Country Rider
from Williams Lake BC
Date Reviewed: June 11, 2006 | | Favoriate Trail: | Aflo Daddy | | Duration Product Used: | 6 months | | Price Paid: |
$2500.00 | | Purchased At: | Barking Spider Mountain Bike | | Strengths: | Stable platform on the rear, a double ring chainset and a teloscoping seat post means you can actually ride up hill on this bike! Chain guide works well at keeping the chain on the rings. Perfect geometry for free ride! and great bump eating suspension! Everything on this bike is overbuilt and should take years of abuse! | | Weaknesses: | Manitou stance is ok for medium sized drops and jumps, but flexes wildly on very high speed bumpy descents. | | Similar Products Used: | Rocky mountain Pipeline. Jamis XLT | | Bike Setup: | Original except switched to grip shifters. | | Bottom Line: | I would buy this bike again in a heart beat! Works so well at what it is intended to do. Its well equiped for the price. The only thing I might change is the fork, it works well for free riding but I wouldn,t want to race downhill with it. This bike wasn,t intended to race so its not really a fault, just an obsevation. Id highly recomend this bike to anyone who wants big hit capability but also likes to ride to the top! | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
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