Evil Bikes The Following: SID BUILD (120mm/120mm) w/Carbon I9 & Enve

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The Following - SID AXS is the 120/120mm 29er that keeps weight to a minimum and fun on full blast. It’ll climb all day and beg for more, it’ll high five its way through berms, gaps, rock gardens and eye-watering speed on the way down. It’s Evil’s version of a trail bike—the crusher of all things crusher, the rally car of two wheels, and every bit as unclassifiable as its inception—XC Rage, Shred-Country, TRAnihILation, TAll Mountain, nothing does it justice.

WIN UP. WIN DOWN. FOLLOW NO ONE.
Too many bikes are chasing the same Reach horizon as everything gets numbed into aircraft-carrier lengths, and every bike uses the same 65-degree headtube angle—XC to Enduro+, hardtails included. You might as well just pick by color. Not us.

For the bike that started the entire shred-trail 29 movement, we can’t hit the mute button on loud, fast, and fun times. We need to let the volume roar and the rally car needs to claw after every extra-credit popportunity it can’t help but hit. And now, the rally car drifts uphill too.

In updating the Following, we’ve kept what makes it so special: lightning handling, shameless pop, and that uncanny ability to be there before you’ve even decided to go there. But we added in that die-hard XC determination with an over-the-pedals 77-degree seat tube angle. It’ll climb, and climb, and climb. And just like the Following we love, it’s first to the beer cooler. Always.

To do this, we actually kept the wheelbase somewhat reasonable—1,177mm for a size medium. But we still needed to add to the Following’s bounce off the walls enthusiasm so we’re spec'ing inline rear shocks. Fear not, you can run piggyback shocks, but inlines are full of shamelessly pop. Yes, we’ve said pop a lot. We like pop. We spec RockShox Deluxe Ultimate RC Debonairs and Fox Float DPS Factory EVOLs and the ramp is irresistible—dig deep, engage boost, gap farther.

In designing around SuperBoost+, it didn’t just stiffen things at speed, it allowed us to oversize each cohesive piece within the structural assembly. With everything bigger, and Evil’s renowned time and weather defying dual row, Klüberplex filled, angular contact bearings, it’s a sustainable ecosystem designed to withstand the rainforest. It also kept our feverishly fast 430mm chainstays and strengthened the rear wheel’s bracing angle. We did not shy away from the hammerheads—this is, after all, Evil’s trail bike and we don’t do anything halfass here. There’s full-on lockout routing for the rear shock, you can run a zero-stack headset.

We went fully internal, tube-in-tube for tidy housings and seamless set up and we shrank the direct-injection carbon chainguide into a svelte modern design wonder. Those who want lighter still—yep, you can take it off.

This puts it in full in Strava-seek-and-destroy, overly fit pedaler territory, but this is a Following we’re talking about, and we made sure the Following is every bit the skateboard of the skinny dirt, slasher of the hidden line, defier of categorization destroyer. It’s the king of pop, more so than ever with an inline rear shock, now just with an additional 18mm of wheelbase and 25mm reach stability. It lost weight and gained strength—who doesn’t want that? And just like the original Following, it can’t be compared to anything, it’s too far ahead—not even in sight—up and down.

**Factory SID Specs from EVIL: (Lots of upgrades)

Shock
Sram
RS SIDL ULT RI 165X45 SA1 ML1 430TS A1
SHAFT END: TRUNION | BODY END: 8X20
Headset
Cane Creek
110 Series ZS44 - ZS62/40 w/ Evil preload (star nut)
Headset - Preload
Cane Creek
EE - EE TOPNUT PRELOAD - POLYBAG
Headset Spacers
Cane Creek
BASIC OEM ALLOY SPACER-28.6-5MM
Fork
Sram
FS SID ULTIMATE CHARGER RACE DAY REMOTE 29" BOOST™ 15X110 MXL STEALTH DEBONAIR 120MM GLOSS BLACK 44MM OFFSET 1.5" TAPER C1
Fork
Sram
RM TLOC FULL SPRINT (FORK AND SHOCK) LEFT 1250MM REAR SHOCK CABLE HOUSING REGULAR GRIP STRAIGHT HOSE A1
Handlebar
Enve
M6 780mm, +25mm rise, 31.8, 9/5 deg
Stem
Enve
M6 40mm – 40 mm, 31.8
Grips
Sram
Included with Twistlock
Brake - Sram Front
Sram
DB LEVEL ULTIMATE CARBON BLADE STEALTH-A-MAJIG BLACK ANODIZED FRONT DIR 900MM HOSE, Titanium bolt, blk clmp
Brake - Sram Rear
Sram
DB LEVEL ULTIMATE CARBON BLADE STEALTH-A-MAJIG BLACK ANODIZED REAR DIR 1800MM HOSE, Titanium bolt, blk clmp
Brake - Sram Hardware
Sram
MMX CLAMP BLK LEFT TI BOLT
Brake - Sram Hardware
Sram
MMX CLAMP BLK RIGHT TI BOLT
Brake - Sram Hardware
Sram
HOSE FITTING KIT DISC BRAKE QTY 1 - SJ
Brake - Rotor
Sram
DB ROTOR/BOLTS CLX 180 BLK TI ROUNDED
Shifter
Sram
EC AXS EAGLE RIGHT HAND 2 BUTTON MATCHMAKER X COMPATABLE
Rear Derailleur
Sram
RD XX1 EAGLE AXS
Cassette
Sram
CS XG 1299 EAGLE 10-52T COPPER
Chain
Sram
CN XX1 EAGLE 116 LINK COPPER
Crankset
Sram
FC X01 EAGLE SB+ DUB 170 LUNAR POLAR 32
Bottom Braket
Sram
BB DUB BSA MTB73 SB+
Wheelset - Front
Industry Nine
UL 280c 24h - 29" - Front Only - Black Hub - Black Spokes - 15x110 Torque Cap
Wheelset - Rear
Industry Nine
Trail 280c 24h - 29" - Rear Only - Black Hub - Black Spokes - 12x157 - XD
Tire - Pair
Maxxis
29x2.4 WT M355RU REKON RACE 120 EXO
Tubes
Stans
Tire Sealant - 2oz Bottle
Seatpost
Sram
SP REVERB AXS 30.9mm 150mm Travel A1
Battery
Sram
EP POWERPACK 1 BATTERY
Seatpost - Controller
Sram
EC AXS ROCKSHOX LEFT HAND 1BUTTON MATCHMAKER X COMPATABLE
Saddle
WTB
Silverado Medium Carbon Black Saddle