For this weekend’s first World Cup Professional Bike Test, now we have the very muddy carbon Devinci Spartan HP bike that Canadian Elly Hoskins rode to a commanding win in Bielsko-Biała at this time. It’s a comparatively brief journey bike at simply 160mm within the rear. However the high-pivot suspension design appeared to do the trick for the younger rider from Canada, maintaining the tires caught to the rocks and slippery roots for a really moist day of enduro racing!
Elly Hoskins’ carbon Devinci Spartan HP enduro race bike
The Devinci Spartan HP enduro has been round for fairly a while. We first wrote about it when Devinci moved it to a excessive single-pivot suspension design with an loafer pulley three and half years in the past. It’s additionally a uncommon carbon mannequin of their line-up as of late, from the Quebec bike maker that prides itself on its made-in-Canada aluminum mountain bike frames.
That is the third season for the 21-year-old Hoskins racing on the Spartan, and Devinci simply bought her the brand new 2025 Black Mud colorway. You simply can’t actually see it beneath all of that mud.
It’s additionally solely the second race for Hoskins as an Elite rider, and already she’s come away with an enormous World Cup win in Bielsko-Biała, Poland. And it was decisive, with greater than 45 seconds over the second-place finisher, then one other 6 seconds again for third-place. For comparability, there have been 11 Elite Males who completed inside 45 seconds of that race’s winner Sławomir Łukasik, and simply 8 seconds separating the lads’s podium.
2025 Devinci Spartan HP 160mm carbon enduro bike
Again after they launched it, Devinci described the mixture of a high-pivot chainline and their trusted Cut up-Pivot linkage as successfully separating braking and pedalling forces, whereas offering wonderful small-bump compliance alongside stable pedalling effectivity.
We’re fairly positive Hoskins was operating her measurement Small bike in its Excessive flip-chip place (though with a lot mud, we’re not 100% positive) which might give it a 65° head angle, a 77.7° seattube, lengthens Attain to 450mm, and shortens its chainstays to only 421mm for the total 29er.
Bike Construct
Hoskins races with a full Shimano XTR mechanical 12-speed groupset, together with XTR Enduro pedals, and a Fox Manufacturing unit suspension setup – X2 within the again, what seems to be like a 180mm 38 up entrance, plus a Switch dropper.
Forged manages her cockpit with an aluminum handlebar and sticky Bamba grips.
She’s sponsored by OneUp parts who additionally package her out with the EDC pump and multi-tool for emergency trailside fixes, plus their strap to hold a spare tube on her body.
Wheels are 29″ RaceFace Period’s with SuperBoost hubs, and are wrapped with Schwalbe Cheesy Chan tire entrance & rear for this moist, muddy race day.
What’s the finest saddle for muddy MTB racing?
Elly Hoskins tops off her Devinci Spartan HP with an unlabeled SDG Bell-Air saddle. I did a fast survey of about 30 riders’ saddles mid-race and post-race, and that is truly one of many cleanest saddles I noticed. A variety of cutout saddles have been packed filled with mud!
What do you suppose is the most effective saddle for muddy mountain bike racing? Tell us within the feedback.
That’s it for Elly Hoskins’ bike examine, moreover perhaps her nice-looking Lazer Chase KinetiCore full-face helmet.
And we anticipate we’ll see extra of her bike on the World Cup podium for years to return!
