{"id":266034,"date":"2021-06-09T17:59:15","date_gmt":"2021-06-09T15:59:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mtb-mag.com\/?p=266034"},"modified":"2021-06-09T17:59:15","modified_gmt":"2021-06-09T15:59:15","slug":"evil-releases-an-all-new-insurgent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mtb-mag.com\/en\/evil-releases-an-all-new-insurgent\/","title":{"rendered":"Evil Releases an all new Insurgent"},"content":{"rendered":"

[Press Release] – June 8, 2021, Bellingham, WA<\/b> \u2013 Born out of the smoldering ashes of mountain biking\u2019s past, Evil Bike Co.\u2019s Insurgent model carved out a reputation for cleaning technical sufferfest climbs and still leaving riders with the energy to get slideways on the way down. We expected it to be successful. What we didn\u2019t know was how this 27.5\u201der would quickly become the de-facto bike for a fun-focused faction of riders still searching for that purely unnecessary slash in the trail of life. In that spirit, the Insurgent has returned with renewed energy and a few new wheel size formats.<\/p>\n

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If necessity is the mother of invention, then the pursuit of useless is the father of joy. Because it\u2019s the unnecessary things that make life sing: the berm slash, the millisecond manual you slip between turns, the sloppy scrub, the bar hump to make the crew laugh. With more travel, 168mm versus 150mm on the Insurgent v1, both iterations of the new Insurgent celebrate the long send. It\u2019s an on-command jump, drift, manual, pop, trail mulching machine. This is a bike built for the shits and giggles that happen when one isn\u2019t timed or judged. So cut the rhetoric. Cut the tape. Cut the corners by clearing them completely, switchback to switchback and back into the future. The Insurgent doesn\u2019t try to win enduro tracks. It shreds them.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n