2021 Specialized Stumpjumper Review | Ever Popular Trail Bike Takes Diet & Refinements

This is the new 2021 Specialized Stumpjumper trail bike, which unsurprisingly, Specialized claim is their best mountain bike to date. The big news on the new Stumpjumper, along with updates to geometry is that it has completely removed the Horst-link pivot on the carbon fibre frames. It’s been replaced by a seatstay flexstay to help drive the 130mm of rear wheel travel.
The 2021 Stumpjumper’s frame has also been on a considerable diet and now weighs a meagre 2,240g (S4 including shock and all hardware claimed weight).
And just like the 2021 Stumpjumper Evo, the standard Stumpy has been “Rider-First Engineered”. This means each of the model’s six sizes have been tuned to have the same ride-feel taking into account rider weight. For example, a 50kg rider on an S1 should experience the same ride as a 120kg rider on an S6 bike.
But does all this add up to Specialized's best trail bike yet? Alex has been testing the new bike for the last month and has some interesting thoughts on how the bike rides and the spec choices.
As always, if you have any questions about the bike or how to look good as Alex on a bike, let us know in the comments and we'll do our best to respond!
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Presenter: Alex Evans
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