![]() ![]() Eventually Walsh made a decision and, despite hating 29ers himself, took the plunge and produced the Evil Following….and everybody, literally every jaded journalist who swung a leg over the early models, absolutely loved it.Ī spot of flip-chippy engineeringy stuff for you.īy the start of 2016, Evil were not only very much back in contention, but Walsh had also been converted to the idea that 29ers might actually be making a comeback. But it was a 29er! And so on, in circles. You don’t know for certain that it’ll work until you build it so you have to trust the designer and Walsh definitely trusted Weagle – let’s face it he’d produced three incredible designs in a row (not to mention his work for a bunch of other brands) so why not trust him. But a lot of the process of design to prototype is one of trust. Evil bikes had effectively failed twice and the proposal was to return from the dead for a third time with a wheel size that was busy being killed off by the Goldilocks brigade. Looking back to 2014, this seemed completely bonkers. So Weagle had given him a 29er – the Following. Something more trail bike oriented, something to meet the demands of the new converts to 650b. ![]() He’d asked Dave Weagle for one more design. Things went pretty quiet for a while, but Walsh wasn’t beaten, he was just engaged in something of an internal battle – with himself. Some feared that this was where Evil was heading. ![]()
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