Specialized StumpJumper Comp Carbon SLX Mountain Bike 2022 Redwood

We’re lucky to be riding during the Golden Age of mountain biking. We have access to more trails than ever, built with more diversity than ever, riders are progressing and nailing what was previously impossible, and now the new Specialized Stumpjumper COMP has evolved to meet the demands of modern riders. Delivering unprecedented control, capability and adjustability, along with unexpected climb-ability, it tames any terrain from chundery jank to progressive high-speed flow and modern big hits. It’s your seat in the eye of the hurricane. And that’s good, ‘cause when shit starts flying on the trail, you’ll be zen in the middle of the mayhem..THE SWEETEST 130MM OF TRAVEL YOU’LL EVER RIDEThe latest version of suspension brings out the very best all-round performance possible in a 130mm package. Countless hours of suspension lab development and field testing created a refined mid-travel ripper that eats big terrainlike a gravity fed beast, handles like a dream everywhere, and climbs like it has a motor.CONTROL AND CAPABILITYThe Stumpjumper CARBON COMP brings control and capability to every rider, every style, in every trail scenario. This bike serves up so much control, you can pick lines you never even saw before. And in those inevitable pilot-error situations.CAPABILITY AND STABILITYThe 2022 Stumpjumper CARBON COMP sets the benchmark for progressive trail geometry, delivering DH capability never before found in a 130mm bike alongside lively climbing manners. How? The generous cockpit gives you the room you need–centering you on the bike, optimizing traction and corner control. The low bottom bracket, slack headtube angle and reduced fork offset keep things stable in the rough, while giving you the freedom to destroy the turns, float through them, or nail the inside lines. A steeper seat tube optimizes power output and puts your weight over the front while climbing. And short chainstays keep things flickable and nimble.THE SWAT™When Specialized introduced the SWAT™ door on the Stumpjumper in 2016, they increased pocket space, and added room for those “oh heck” pumps and flat accessories. With the new Stumpjumper, they have kept those same design hallmarks that you know and love.GEOMETRYTo be the Ultimate Trail Bike means to rule in any rider style and in any terrain. Its a big ask, Specialized have delivered the most up to date geometry they have ever offered on a trail bike.LONGER: To keep your centre of gravity down and thereby keep stability high, the bottom bracket is always low. But now, you can fine tune BB height by 7mm by swapping the Horst Link Chips.DOWN IN FRONT: The steeper seat tube angle, reduced offset fork, and forward-biased riding position keeps power to the pedals,and keeps thesteering quick and nimble while climbing. Instead of a sluggish climbing compromise, the COMP’s pedal-happy geometry makes easy work out of getting to the top, so you’ll be energized and ready to send thedescents.KINEMATICS AND PEDALING MANNERSThere’s a generous amount of anti-squat early in the travel. When it comes to climbing responsiveness and pedaling snap, anti-squat is your friend. It helps you put the power to the groundwithout unwanted pedal-induced bob, and it transforms wattage into forward and upward momentum.As the suspension moves through its travel, the anti-squat characteristics drop below zero, and thesuspension focuses on sucking up everything from chunder to dead sailoring blind hucks-to-flat.SHRED IN SCILENCEYou won’t realize how much chain-slap was slapping your ride until it’s gone. Oh, the joy of silence! With a new proprietary chainstay protector, it makes the drivetrain now virtually silent by disrupting the sinewave of an unchecked chain clattering away in the rough. The result is the transcendent silence of one hand clapping.MIXED WHEEL ADAPABLE 29 / 27.5Mullets are a thing these days. Not the hairstyle, though. A bigger hoop upfront can provide traction and stability everywhere, while opting to run a smaller rear wheel can liven up responsiveness and also give more physical riders a load more room to get rad. Utilizing different, aftermarket shock link to achieve Mulletdom with the Stumpjumper, in order to retain the handling, geometry and suspension characteristics that enable the rest of the package to shred so assertively.The 2022 Specialized Stumpjumper Comp Carbon Features:FRAME: FACT 11m carbon chassis and rear-end, asymmetrical design, 29 Trail Geometry, SWAT™ Door integration, flip chip Head Tube/Bottom Bracket adjustment, threaded BB, 130mm of TravelREAR SHOCK: FOX FLOAT DPS Performance, Rx Trail Tune, rebound and 3-position compression adjustSUSPENSION: FOX FLOAT 34 Rhythm, GRIP damper, two position Sweep adjustmentGEARING: Shimano SLX, M7100, 12spdBRAKESET: Shimano SLX M7120, 4-piston caliper, hydraulic disc, 200/180mm