Evil Offering
Wheel Sizes: 29’’
Suspension Travel:
- Frame: 151 mm
- Fork: 160 or 170 mm
Geometry Highlights:
- Sizes offered: S, M, L, XL
- Headtube angle: 64.1° (160 mm fork / low geometry setting)
- Reach: 481 mm (Size L, 160mm fork / low geometry setting)
- Chainstay length: 430 to 440 mm
Frame Material: Carbon fiber
Price:
- Complete bikes: $6,699 to $10,599
- Frame w/ RockShox Super Deluxe or Vivid Ultimate shock: $3,999
Blister’s Measured Weight: 34.36 lb / 15.59 kg (Offering Eagle 90 Lyrik, size Large)
Intro
It’s been a long wait for folks awaiting a new model from Evil, but the updated Offering is here, and it’s not just a light refresh of its predecessor. The new Offering gets a big geometry overhaul, new design language, a bunch of new features and refinements, and a bit more suspension travel to go with it. Let’s check it out.
The Frame
There’s no mistaking that the new Offering is an Evil, and it sticks to certain hallmarks of the brand, while casting aside some other ones — in ways that feel well considered.
We’ll start with the stuff that carries over from the outgoing Offering LS: the new bike is still carbon fiber-only, with Evil’s signature Delta suspension layout (a linkage-driven single-pivot setup designed by Dave Weagle) that places the shock low in the front triangle. It’s got the standard modern niceties you’d expect: a UDH derailleur hanger, guided internal cable routing that doesn’t go through the headset, and ample rubber protection on the chainstay, seatstay, and downtube. A 180mm brake mount carries over from the Offering LS, too, as do some other details, including a threaded bottom bracket shell, a 30.9 mm seatpost diameter, and the bearing sizes.
The stuff that has changed, though, feels more significant. There aren’t any wild changes here, but the ones that have been made are both meaningful and sensible. For one, the Super Boost rear hub spacing is gone: the new Offering gets a 148 mm Boost rear end, designed around the now-default 55 mm chainline. The suspension travel has been bumped up a bit (to 151 mm rear / 160 or 170 mm front, from 141 mm rear / 150 mm front), and Evil has added downtube storage, too. They’ve also refined a lot of the Offering’s hardware details, including tidying up the cable routing, beefing up pivot bolts in select locations, adding a rubber guard at the main pivot to keep rocks and gunk out, and making the geometry flip chip easier to use.
And speaking of geometry, some big changes are afoot there, too:
Fit & Geometry
The new Offering is available in the same four nominal sizes (Small, Medium, Large, and XL) as the outgoing one, and maintains Evil’s signature short chainstays, but the geometry is radically different overall. The headtube is much slacker, at 64.7° vs. 66.4° for the outgoing model (in the high flip chip setting, with the standard 160 mm fork for the new bike). The low setting drops that to 64.1°, and the bigger 170 mm fork option slackens things further to 64.1° / 63.6°, depending on the flip chip setting.
The seat tube angle has also been steepened dramatically, to around 78.5° effective / 75.5° actual (varying slightly by fork travel and flip chip setting). The effective seat tube angle on the outgoing bike wasn’t terribly slack (77° / 76°), but its fairly slack actual seat tube (angle not stated) resulted in a pretty rearward seating position, especially for taller folks on the bigger frame sizes with a greater overall seat height.
The reach and stack figures haven’t changed a ton; reach ranges from 438 to 501 mm and stack from 616 to 648 mm (160 mm fork, low setting). Nothing too weird going on there. The Offering’s chainstays are a bit on the short side, particularly for the larger sizes (~436 mm for all sizes, depending on geometry setting), though that’s been one of Evil’s calling cards for a while, too.
The Builds
The Offering is available in three different base builds, with additional suspension and wheel upgrade options from there. The drivetrain and brake packages are all from SRAM, RockShox handles suspension duties across the board, and all the wheel options are from Industry Nine. You can have your choice of SRAM Eagle 90, X0, or XX Transmission groups (with SRAM Maven Silver brakes and a Bike Yoke Revive dropper post across the board).
- Drivetrain: SRAM Eagle 90 Transmission
- Brakes: SRAM Maven Silver
- Fork: RockShox Lyrik Ultimate (160mm) or RockShox ZEB Ultimate (170 mm)
- Shock: RockShox Super Deluxe Ultimate (w/ Lyrik) or RockShox Vivid Air Ultimate (w/ ZEB)
- Wheels: Industry Nine DH S 1/1
- Industry Nine Hydra 2 Trail or Enduro Carbon: $1,300 upcharge
- Dropper post: Bike Yoke Revive (S: 160 mm; M & L: 185 mm; XL: 213 mm)
- Drivetrain: SRAM X0 Transmission
- Brakes: SRAM Maven Silver
- Fork: RockShox Lyrik Ultimate (160mm) or RockShox ZEB Ultimate (170 mm)
- Shock: RockShox Super Deluxe Ultimate (w/ Lyrik) or RockShox Vivid Air Ultimate (w/ ZEB)
- Wheels: Industry Nine DH S 1/1
- Industry Nine Hydra 2 Trail or Enduro Carbon: $1,300 upcharge
- Dropper post: Bike Yoke Revive (S: 160 mm; M & L: 185 mm; XL: 213 mm)
- Drivetrain: SRAM XX Transmission
- Brakes: SRAM Maven Silver
- Fork: RockShox Lyrik Ultimate (160mm) or RockShox ZEB Ultimate (170 mm)
- Shock: RockShox Super Deluxe Ultimate (w/ Lyrik) or RockShox Vivid Air Ultimate (w/ ZEB)
- Wheels: Industry Nine DH S 1/1
- Industry Nine Hydra 2 Trail or Enduro Carbon: $1,300 upcharge
- Dropper post: Bike Yoke Revive (S: 160 mm; M & L: 185 mm; XL: 213 mm)
Some Questions / Things We’re Curious About
(1) It’s been a long time since we’ve been on anything from Evil, so how does the new Offering ride, and how does it stack up in the current market?
(2) Is the Offering a harbinger of more updated Evils to come?
Bottom Line (For Now)
We’ve been eagerly waiting for Evil to launch something new, and the Offering looks like a well-considered update of their 29er All-Mountain bike. We’ve got an Offering in for review, so check out our Flash Review for our early impressions, and stay tuned for a Full Review to follow.
Flash Review: Our Initial On-Trail Impressions
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Flash Review: Evil Offering
It’s been a quiet few years for Evil, but their new Offering has gotten a major overhaul, and the on-trail results are intriguing.
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