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Conclusion

It’s a common theme with bike testing that you spend much longer riding the bikes you struggle to sync with, and that’s definitely the case here. We literally spent months setting and re-setting sag levels, tweaking the compression and rebound damping on the Specialized Epic World Cup and riding it in as many different situations as possible.

In the process we figured out that there are some things the Epic WC does very well. The ‘take no prisoners’ vibe is

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