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