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Re: Epic Evo Clone I'm glad I'm not the only one who jumped on this!

I actually got in contact with a sales rep on whatsapp.
I along with some of the folks on this sub love the thrill of a good deal, and rocking a frame thats a fraction of the big names frames. Plus im chinese and love supporting my brothers in them factories.

I got my frame today from AWST on aliexpress, and I requested the epic evo rear triangle, the one without the brain out back.
The frame seems pretty good, I cant find anything visually incorrect from the OG, but thats just a first glance over.

While the outside looks good, the inside looks a bit rough. You can see the pictures I attached of the inside of the headset.
Weights to come.

I hope I along with some of the other folks here can provide some decent information on the frame, as there seems like there has been some interest, just no one jumped on it til now.


March 04, 2023, 01:06:45 PM 		1
Re: Epic Evo Clone
Quote from: wwwru on March 07, 2023, 08:27:06 AM
No, you are correct, the rear triangles are different between the Evo and regular epic. What I am saying is that if they can make an Evo style linkage to work with this rear triangle it would good enough.

Looks like it might be possible.

One concern that I have is that with the adjusted leverage, it might introduce larger strain on the rear triangle.
March 07, 2023, 10:41:37 AM 		1
Re: Epic Evo Clone What I've been totally wasting my time on.

Do I know what I'm doing? Absolutely not
Am I having fun? Hell yeah

Interestingly, the chainstay length is about 438ish like this.
@wwwru, how are you measuring the chainstay length? I'm doing it with the shock totally uncompressed (Which is how I though the chainstay was suppose to be measured from manufacturers)
March 07, 2023, 09:16:04 PM 		1
Re: Epic Evo Clone
Quote from: Technic on March 08, 2023, 12:28:24 AM
What length of shock did you have?  That link is from the Evo but there is also the normal link.


I have a 190x45 shock. Its not the link from an evo, I actually 3D Printed it.

Quote from: wwwru on March 08, 2023, 08:01:21 PM
I measured it with the flex stays in the relaxed position, which with the supplied linkage ended up being uncompressed 190mm long shock.

Is that the prototype 3D printed linkage?

The other unknown about this frame is the relaxed position of the flex stays. On the Canyon Lux for example, flex stays are in the relaxed position at sag....approximately. On this frame, with the supplied linkage, flex stays are relaxed at full extension. It makes sense for them to be relaxed at sag, but I can't really confirm that since I only have one bike model to compare it to and there is not much info on the internet.

Ah yeah I'm not too sure about that either.

It is the prototype, but I'm afraid that it wont work unless the supplier also redesigns the yoke.
Attached my sketch out on a 3D software, and the epic evo manual.
The yoke needs to be a 2 piece split design similar to how the seat stay is. I'm afraid it'll be extremely unreliable with the way I have sketched it out, exerting a ton of shear stress on the m8 bolt.

:( I'm probably just going to put the other linkage back on and give up.
March 08, 2023, 09:14:31 PM 		1
Re: Epic Evo Clone Thing is, I actually measured the rear travel with the new linkage I designed, and I actually measured around 130mm of rear travel. So its definitely possible, but I'm not sure what my linkage has done to the rest of the geometry.
I also heard some disturbing creaks from the rear triangle when moving it to full compression.
March 08, 2023, 09:15:52 PM 		1