UNDER AFRICAN SKIES
Specialized’s Levo SL is one of the most hyped up bikes I’ve seen launched in recent years, with its monstrous release on the world wide web in February causing a ripple in the space-time continuum. As I’m sure you read on my first ride impression post back then, I really rated the Levo SL, but that’s often the case at press junkets in exotic locales—the fine wine and jet lag can skew one’s judgement. Now the hype has died down, and I’ve logged over 400kms on the SL, I feel ideally placed to pen my full, extended review of this mind-bending new style of bike.
By now you’ve all read Pinkbike’s languid, unenthused, ‘hurry up and pay your money’ prose with accompanying plethora of cretinous comments by the keyboard warriors. Or perhaps the more curious minded of you may have delved into some of the more dour, mind-numbing tomes filled with fork offset numbers, suspension leverage-ratio curves—oh sorry I nodded off there—coverage that other media think is interesting. So I thought I’d try and just go with the simple Kiwi approach of giving you
