Specialized Stumpjumper Evo Carbon V Evo Alloy: Which wins?

I would have liked to have seen a proper summery at the end. Too long winded for my liking and you kept cutting off your friend when you asked him his opinion.

Thanks for this review and you thoughts shared w/ Chris Hall on the downtime pod cast on this bike. It really helped in deciding which bike to get! Have been riding the evo comp for a few weeks now and it’s been perfect for this 47 year old dad of 4 kids. Keep up the great work!!!

I personally loved watching you ride with your best bud!

Thanks for another brilliant video. This is a crucial topic. Many riders struggle with the question of whether to get a carbon bike or an alloy bike. No one before has answered this question as brilliantly as you have in this video. Using, virtually, the same bike with nearly identical specs, makes the comparison clearer and more accurate. Riding them side by side, with another rider, in the same conditions, makes for a fair comparison. Most commenters ride a bike and comment at the end of the ride. You give us real-time comments which adds a great dear to our understanding of what you are experiencing on the bike. Brilliant. Simply brilliant.

That’s where I ride recently since I have moved to Yorkshire bit over year ago :-) Stainburn is fantastic! Good comparison review

👏 Brilliant video. This is a massively useful video for many of us looking at both bikes. I would love to see more of you two doing comparisons. Mullet link vs normal on the Stumpy Evo, or steep setting vs slack/normal setting or steep vs regular stumpy would be what I would love to see. Great content!

Interesting to here yourself and Ryan’s thoughts on the frame materials. Myself and some friends have just been upto Stainburn this morning and I was riding my Levo carbon comp and when I rode my mates alloy Levo back to back on the same trails I couldn’t believe the difference on how the two could feel so different. Glad I bought the carbon now 😉 Great video but wouldn’t expect anything less 👍

Hey Guy, as a Yorkshireman living in Virginia USA I haven't heard the phrase "vinegar strokes" for a long time....show's I'M paying attention.Love your channel

Love my alloy Evo. I cracked two of the carbon versions behind the downtube guard. I’m only buying alloy from spesh going forward.

The thing for me is an alloy bike is more durable and less prone to unrepairable damage in a crash. And also I think the alloy frames have better resale value as there's less concern about hidden fractures in the alloy frame compared to a carbon fibre frame.

Thanx. Super helpful comparison. I’ll get the carbon one.

👏🏻 Love the STEVO however my carbon frame cracked from a rock kicked up by the front tire. Bummer but as you mentioned $300 repair and it was back in business.

Loved that Guy...always looking forward to next vid. Actually hoping you get that new Orange to review.

Great comparison! Thanks for the video!

Good Video Guy...Thanks!. Part of me wonders how dependant bike reviews are on the manufacturing tolerances of MTB suspension products. I have felt big differences in suspension quality when swapping between forks and shocks that should have been comparable, and I have wondered if it the different tightness of bushings and seals just from manufacturing tolerances has more impact than anything else. I also wonder if this is why sometimes you see big differences in how reviewers find the same bike. I have seen one reviewer call the suspension plush whilst another calls it lacking in small bump compliance.

That trail is really nice!

Love the review

Really interesting vid Guy, and obviously looking at a pure performance point of view. Do you think media ought to start considering environmental impact too? Carbon is an amazing material, but it puts 3x as much CO2 into the atmosphere compared to aluminium construction (and steel is lower than both. Jus sayin ;-)), and maybe that would be a consideration for riders? Be interested in your thoughts on that

You were running tubeless and tubes. You had different cranksets. You also had different cassettes. This is fine if you are comparing these two models as equipped from the factory. But this is not a carbon vs. alloy frame comparison. For that, you need the same exact setup with the frames being the only thing different between the two. I'm not convinced that there would be such a significant difference in feel if both were identically equipped, but for the frame material.

I built my first bike this last winter. I live where we get get extreme cold winters. I bought a stumpy alloy evo frame and built it with full xt and dt swiss 511 wheels. I'm curious to see how it does against the older version of my carbon stumpy. Not much fairness in contest older one no adjustable geo and had 27.5 wheels.