On The Pegs March 2019 - Volume 4 - Issue 3 | Page 114

On The Pegs P 114 THE GOODS... EVAN RUNS A WP TRAX SHOCK WITH THE TRAX SYSTEM DIS- ABLED BECAUSE HE LIKES A MORE ACTIVE FEEL. EVAN SMITH: Starting at the front, I run Renthal Twin Wall 999 bend bars, which are super flat and low. I like to roll my bars back because I like the way that feels. The bars are mounted with the new XC Gear Mako 360 bar mounts, with the red polymers and blue shark bite, to kind of tame the hard hits. I just run stock Husky triple clamps with the XC Gear mounts, but the top clamp is off of the 2015 model so it has the solid mount rather than the rubber mounts for the bars. I also run ARC levers, which are the unbreakable plastic levers, with G2 bark busters or flags, depending on what I’m riding. I also run a G2 metal throttle tube. As far as the suspension, I run WP cone valve forks with a WP Trax shock setup, and they are valved by Powerband Suspension out of Minnesota. I run the Trax system disabled on the shock, because I don’t like the way it feels. The Trax system is designed so whenever you bounce off something and the shock is rebounding, it basi- cally opens the valving so that your back tire can come down to the ground as quickly as possible. That’s not good in the woods be-