Specialized Stumpjumper
Suddenly There Was The Specialized Stumpjumper
As a favorite trail bike, the Specialized Stumpumper tops the list. With all of the goodies it has to hand, the Stumpjumper it’s hard to wrong with that bike under your rear end.
Specialists put the Stumpjumper – incidentally, the first of Specialized Mountain Bikes to go public – to the test and found little to complain.
It was tested on some of the toughest terrain in both Colorado and Utah ranging from mud, hardpack, sand and snow. The Stumpy took its place with other trail bikes and came up trumps with no complaints about its performance.
Pros:
- Its geometry was nice and comfy.
- Lightweight with a huge amount of travel.
- Reliable fork.
- A nice component spec.
With most pros comes a con or two and the Stumpy is not without them. Our testers found two.
Cons
- Limited seat post height adjustment, and
- A derailleur – the mechanism on a bicycle used to move the chain from one sprocket (gear) to another – knock.
Despite these minors, Stumpy is a hard bike to complain about and despite its many changes since 1981; it’s still a Specialized family favorite and is still wheeling along strong over these past 29 years.
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