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About to go there for spring break, what are the best trails I should look out for? Love me some DH.

Yeah that was my main issue, but I travel enough to justify it even if I will be slow on xc stuff around here.

Yeah I was really happy when they offered that, and the way I see it it's either my bike or $500 more for one equally specced but with 20/10mm travel. Theyre both good bikes so I shouldn't worry about it. More of an excuse to shred the gnar I guess

I mean typically you're going to want a bike that represents what kind of trails you ride. You don't want to try DH on a 24lb XC bike or XC on a 35lb DH rig. Or maybe you do, it just won't be as fun/'safe' as a bike built for that purpose.

As an update to this, I called canyon today about refunding the bike. I was expecting some conflict, but when I called them they said I could get a refund or send it back again and they would give me a carbon frame since I was having trouble with their aluminum ones. Needless to say I'm going to stick with the canyon and get the carbon frame instead od the Whyte, even if I may be a little over biked. Good customer service!

Here you go

I've only had experience with this company with my Spectral, but I have heard great things otherwise. The frame quality of the aluminum spectral isn't great. The weld lines are uneven and aren't very confidence inspiring. The first frame i got had 2 holes in the weld connecting the seat tube and bb shell, and the transitional piece of aluminum from the top tube to the seat tube was welded angled a few degrees to the right. The process to exchange the frame-and I had the choice to refund or exchange-was fine and customer service was nice, but every time they gave me an estimate of time for something to happen (frame replacement, processing time) it always took twice what they said. I got the new frame back to find the same misaligned weld at the seat tube and top tube junction, but cocked to the left, plus a dent in the seatstay. Disappointing. I have seen other people mention this online so unfortunately it isn't only me experiencing these problems. I think that these welding issues are mainly exclusive to the aluminum Spectral frames (maybe that's why they are such a steal?), as I haven't heard of anything like this on their other aluminum or carbon frames. I'd say do heavy research on frame quality on whatever bike you are going to buy, but Canyon in general still seem to have good quality, just not with the Spectral. And at least in the US, their customer service is average for a direct-to-consumer brand, but I guess I'll see if that is still the case when I request a refund.

I would, but I'm not sure where I could. I was hoping that somebody on here would be open to allowing me to test theirs out.

I recently got a Canyon Spectral AL 6.0 (150mm front 140mm rear), but after exchanging it once for frame/welding defects and the new frame having the same problems plus a dent, I'm done with Canyon and looking for something else. The few times I rode the Spectral before noticing the issues I never used all the travel, and it felt a bit heavy, although it did destroy descents. This makes me feel like I should maybe shoot for something with less travel, and that's how I ended up finding the Whyte (130mm front and rear). So, how does it fair for Austin riding?