High Pivot Heaven? Deviate Claymore in Depth Review | Better Than a Trek Slash Gen 6?

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00:00 Intro
02:52 DH Riding
04:18 Takes a little getting used to
05:45 Climbing
06:41 Jumping
09:21 PR'ing trails I've ridden forever
09:49 Cornering and pumping/manuals
11:26 Final Thoughts it comes alive
13:20 Climbing and Cornering
15:18 DH Blew me away
16:51 Idler and cable routing etc.
18:20 one thing that concerns me
19:32 Weight
21:23 Who is this bike for?
22:22 My suspension settings
22:38 The more I ride it the more I like it

[SCRAPSTrash]

My claymore arrives in 1 week! So excited to try it out with DVO and hope bits. You can do custom builds through Deviate. They will direct to consumer as well! I live in the east coast US and the custom build I made is being shipped from the HQ Edinburgh Scotland.

Also the bike builder on the custom page will generate an image to show the bike with the selected components, super nice touch 🤙

[TheDiablosixsix]

I have a Highlander 2 custom build coming next week and I can't wait!! The option to get a claymore was there but I don't race and the 160mm front 145mm rear will do me fine!! You can find a few Deviates out in the wild in Ireland but still very rare!!

[zsanterre]

Oh you know the wheelhouse? Rob is the man! the new shop is so sick

[livefreeandshred]

For what its worth. I rode this bike and it also blew my mind how good it was.

[whitest_kyle]

Thinking of picking one of these up since there's some sales going on. I'm almost exactly your weight so I appreciate putting the fork and shock settings up for us!

I am kind of tired of the chatter from my Bronson's VPP and want something that eats up chatter and bumps a bit better.

[devinhelps]

Hi Jonathon. Fantastic video! In your settings that you put on the screen at the end of your video, the high speed and low speed rebound on your Fox 38 fork are 11 and 13, respectively. Are those typos? I have a 2023 claymore with the same fork and it has 9 clicks of each. I want to set up my suspension like you have yours set up (soft/fast) so if the HSR and LSR posted on your video are typos, I’d love to get your actual settings.

I loved your video by the way. I’m loving my Claymore but still dialing in my suspension. I was pumped to see this video, as I ride a lot of different terrain like you (flowy jump trials to double black) and have been searching for some guidance on a good overall suspension setup for this bike.

Thanks for any more guidance you can provide.

Cheers.

[muddy]

First thank you very much for this in depth review!
In the review of loam wolf they were speaking about brake jack (hardening of the rear suspension under braking) with the Claymore. Do you have the same sensation? I would probably change from a Firebird 22 to a Claymore but after the loam wolf review I was hesitant.

[cberg]

Interested to see if that low bottom pivot gets mess up with all the slab/rock features you ride.

[scht]

Hi, how tall are you and what frame size did you test? I'm 179cm and reach 490cm for L, it seems quite a lot to me and I'm afraid that the bike won't be too clumsy in corners, etc.

[thomchambers]

Update - Deviate now sell full 'pro' build bikes on their website, as well as a fully customised bike builder which lets you choose everything!

[inseinej]

I have a Claymore also and am liking it more and more. A couple questions:
-Do you ever get chain skipping teeth when pedaling hard? I find it's happening when the suspension is squatting (high speed, sweeping berm..pedaling to make a jump) and I'll get some skipping. I'm running a 12 speed Shimano XT drivetrain which is supposed to have lots of tension but still getting the skipping on occasion. Thinking about trying Deviate's just released chain tensioner.
-How many Volume spacers are you running on the X2? I found with my riding style 2 volume spacers in the x2 was perfect and took away some of the soft, wallowing. I like a firmer platform and ride a lot of bike park so that helped.

Otherwise the bike is rad and just as cornerable/playful as my 27.5 Evil Insurgent it replaced once I got used to it...while being much much faster. Also setting PR's on pretty much every trail I ride without trying.

[youling]

Where is this trail system that you rode? Highland?

[davemathers]

Uh when trek slash?^^ will be interesting

[nilokillian]

been using claymore for 7 months and it indeed feels like the back is 50kg. Soo hard to move around, takes all energy to take off the ground. It's like a dh bike to just go straight down

[Coerced]

Oh man, if only they were built in a sensible country that didn't leave the EU in a fit to drive up trading costs

[alexh.]

Bruh come to find you invested so much into this custom build then compare it to a off the shelf Slash. Like I said before it's your opinion at the end but it isn't a fair comparison and the bias is heavy.