Exactly. Bottom of the barrel vs top everything isn’t a fair comparison. I do like how he did individual comparisons though. This series is a lot of work but to your point, worth it upgrades vs top and another video with worth it upgrades vs bottom would be 2 nice videos
I wouldn’t say that the low bike upgrades were bottom of the barrel. XO drive train, Lyrik Select+ and Fox float suspension are all mid range and fully capable. I run the Hunt wheels and absolutely love them. They have taken a pounding and held up great. The only cheap out was the brakes
First of all, this was great. Well done, informative, thorough, professional, dedicated, unbiased, super impressive stuff! I was definitely rooting for Low Bike! One upgrade comparison idea I'd love to see would be putting a cheaper bike that has been upgraded against a stock bike that has the same total cost. ($1500 bike + $2000 upgrades vs $3500 complete bike). Could be a really interesting video!
@@EvansMTBSaga that would be amazing! I’ve always figured it’s better bang for buck to upgrade, but with prices coming down it may be a close contest. The positive with building is you get to really choose what you spend money on, and based off this series you’ve got all the info on best upgrade ROI!
I know comments help creators so I leave one :) Appreciate all the time spent on this. Really enjoy watching your videos and tests. I was always a man who buys mid tier stuff as I do not believe in high end stuff giving much of gains. This series just proves it bang on.
Thanks Sergej! I had everything planned for this series months back. I expected high bike to be better, I had even written a script for the finale thinking that High Bike would win. Man I was surprised.
Great series and glad that you’re not hurt too badly. I think the point of this series is that thoughtful upgrades can make a big difference. Even the stuff you put on the “low” bike was pretty solid.
I honestly hate to see the lack of views and subscribers you have. Your videos are always such high quality with clearly so much effort put into them. You are easily my favorite MTB youtuber and I always look forward to your videos. Love your work man.🫶🫶🫶
Man I really enjoyed this season, I've been following for a long time and I've been enjoying your work a lot! You have come a long way along your "saga" and I am looking forward to more content from you! I hope your thumb gets better soon, it's amazing that you still did your run even after being hurt! Cheers!
Evan this series was remarkably well done. I’ve been watching since you hit me with “How much is your bike?” This summary of data vs parts was well thought out and fun to watch. Nice job. See you with my Zerode on Dragon Scales!
Thanks Evan! I've really enjoyed this series. Hi-Low season 1 made me subscribe to this channel. And this season is even more awesome. Great quality stuff! Hopefully Chad will join you for new Hi-Low adventures somewhere in the future. Hope you recover soon!
A comment and a new subscriber….loved this series. I did a couple upgrades this season on my Rocky instinct and even with all the industry discounts this summer I couldn’t justify going on a reckless spending spree. I went al wheels with rekons and a lyric select fork and couldn’t be happier. For my local trails switching from the stock dhf/dhr to the rekons has been a game changer and really opened up my riding. The bonus is I’ve now got a set of wheels for the bike park days.
Evan, I am from Florida and ride primarily hardtails. I've never been to anything like Bentonville or nothing like that but I can say that watching your videos makes me want to go shred some stuff that will probably end up being overwhelming. Love your videos man love watching what you do keep up the good work. You're out here motivating people❤❤❤
Yea if you buy Amazon knock offs, but all these parts are from legitimate companies, same warranties and quality. Minus the carbon wheels, they should have a better warranty
Congratulations on this season ender Evans, I really enjoyed watching this since I have always been a believer of the Low bike, more power to your channel cheers!
So I really like the way you did the highbike/low bike this year. It really made it more interesting to see at the end how much everything made a difference but then all along you could see each individual part what kind of difference it made. So I’m gonna say good job. I really enjoyed it!
You are looking FAST out there, definitely huge improvements from when you started your channel! Nice work and great work on your video, the editing is on point.
That was an awesome comparison. It really gives me ideas of what the best value for future upgrades. You really put it on the line riding down injured. You probably did it on adrenaline alone. Talk about amazing dedication👍. It looks like you pushed out on your line into some soft stuff. Get better soon👍
Really well done series and really surprising. I’ve always used parts that I thought were budget friendly and felt like they improved my bike. It’s kinda cool to know I’m not completely nuts.
Thanks so much for the video series, you really did a great job. Been fun to watch you progress so much since the beginning videos, both in video skill and riding skill.
That was a great series! Well done on the hard work - really paid off. Quality of the content, filming editing and even the little motion FX was next level. This should be on Netflix - would rather watch this on TV than most of the other junk on there. I recently did a similar test (actually a bike designer), and tried cheap vs factory level suspension on a downcountry platform. The cheaper suspension was faster, but the more expensive stuff felt substantially better. I think it is because the plusher suspension is not as responsive pogo-sticking you out of corners and ricochet-ing off rocks like the cheaper alternatives. So my nerves were shot on the cheaper stuff, but my times were better.
Another really insightful video, thanks Evan. Really shows you have to ge careful picking upgrades and starting with a frame that suits your trails and style too.
Woww Evans, what a great serie. The video edit is amazing. Always is really a nice surprise when you upload a video. You really encourage to develop skills. Thank you and wishing you the best.
Loved this series especially since I ride a polygon d7 and I’ve always felt like this bike is sooo fast stock and wondered what it would be like with some tasteful upgrades. I think I know which direction I wanna go with upgrades I appreciate this series so much!
Fantastic video, Evan (and Chad)! Good on you for toughing it out after that fall. I had a similar one and ended up tearing my UCL. Hopefully that’s not the case for you. Keep up the hard work!
Great series, you put a ton of work into it and it shows. Also I didn't think I would hear "synergistically" and "hawk tuah" in the same video but somehow you pulled it off lol
High low was fantastic as always….thanks for the videos. My son and I come down to Bentonville from kc several times a year hope to see you out sometime.
This series was a huge step up from the original. Thanks for your hard work and time
“We’re both 5’9”” wow what a coincidence!
No way, they are both of same height. Evan whishes, but Chad is clearly taller!!
@@advocatusdiaboli9909Chad wears heel lifts
@@advocatusdiaboli9909aren’t them the same guy? Bc I just found out that they are two separate people
I'd love to see a comparison of the expensive bike with a bike with only the most effective upgrades.
Exactly. Bottom of the barrel vs top everything isn’t a fair comparison. I do like how he did individual comparisons though. This series is a lot of work but to your point, worth it upgrades vs top and another video with worth it upgrades vs bottom would be 2 nice videos
I wouldn’t say that the low bike upgrades were bottom of the barrel. XO drive train, Lyrik Select+ and Fox float suspension are all mid range and fully capable. I run the Hunt wheels and absolutely love them. They have taken a pounding and held up great. The only cheap out was the brakes
Evan risking his thumbs for the content, gotta respect the hustle
👍👍👍👍🤣🤣
@@EvansMTBSagaYour thumbs good again or what
Nope 😞 I'm still not able to ride and it's been over a week. Trying to keep the brace on hoping it heals
Great finale to the series. I can't believe you don't wear at least knee pads at Leatherwood. I'm just too old not to anymore.
I thought about it for sure. But I stuck to just DH2 and figured that was tame and controlled. Luckily my knees barely got scraped when I crashed haha
First of all, this was great. Well done, informative, thorough, professional, dedicated, unbiased, super impressive stuff! I was definitely rooting for Low Bike! One upgrade comparison idea I'd love to see would be putting a cheaper bike that has been upgraded against a stock bike that has the same total cost. ($1500 bike + $2000 upgrades vs $3500 complete bike). Could be a really interesting video!
I might be able to do that. I have the top spec T9 and I was going to add that bike in my tests for this video, but the injury made it so I couldn't
@@EvansMTBSaga that would be amazing! I’ve always figured it’s better bang for buck to upgrade, but with prices coming down it may be a close contest. The positive with building is you get to really choose what you spend money on, and based off this series you’ve got all the info on best upgrade ROI!
So much work went into this series and I loved it.... great job!!👍
I know comments help creators so I leave one :) Appreciate all the time spent on this. Really enjoy watching your videos and tests. I was always a man who buys mid tier stuff as I do not believe in high end stuff giving much of gains. This series just proves it bang on.
Thanks Sergej! I had everything planned for this series months back. I expected high bike to be better, I had even written a script for the finale thinking that High Bike would win. Man I was surprised.
Loved this series, Evan!
Thanks Alex!! It was tough to make and now I'll have to be off the bike for a few weeks to heal my thumb
Nice to see all the bikes and components, but also nice seeing your journey over the years. You obviously love MTB and living the Bentonville dream
Super exciting to watch the finale! Sorry to see the crash, but glad you were able to push through.
Hi, great series! Greatings from Slovakia (EU).
Dude gave it that Hawk Tuah 😳
and look where it got him 🙃🙃
I didn't expect that to be honest 😭
Loved this series. Loving my Polygon Siskiu D7 that’s been smartly upgraded and it’s beating my PR’s previously set using my Specialized Epic.
This series was both enjoyable AND useful for many of us. Thanks gor this huge work !!!
Wow, great video! The shots of you and chat together were amazing
Great series and glad that you’re not hurt too badly. I think the point of this series is that thoughtful upgrades can make a big difference. Even the stuff you put on the “low” bike was pretty solid.
I honestly hate to see the lack of views and subscribers you have. Your videos are always such high quality with clearly so much effort put into them. You are easily my favorite MTB youtuber and I always look forward to your videos. Love your work man.🫶🫶🫶
Me too man. Idk what's going on. The last 3 episodes really dropped off
@@EvansMTBSaga Keep up the great work and I know that you’ll get ur big break.
168000 as of now, how about that.
Man I really enjoyed this season, I've been following for a long time and I've been enjoying your work a lot! You have come a long way along your "saga" and I am looking forward to more content from you! I hope your thumb gets better soon, it's amazing that you still did your run even after being hurt! Cheers!
Evan this series was remarkably well done. I’ve been watching since you hit me with “How much is your bike?” This summary of data vs parts was well thought out and fun to watch. Nice job. See you with my Zerode on Dragon Scales!
Thanks Evan! I've really enjoyed this series. Hi-Low season 1 made me subscribe to this channel. And this season is even more awesome. Great quality stuff!
Hopefully Chad will join you for new Hi-Low adventures somewhere in the future.
Hope you recover soon!
Evan you killed it on this series! Thank you for all the rad videos 🤙
I loved this series, it was so fun to watch!!
A comment and a new subscriber….loved this series. I did a couple upgrades this season on my Rocky instinct and even with all the industry discounts this summer I couldn’t justify going on a reckless spending spree. I went al wheels with rekons and a lyric select fork and couldn’t be happier. For my local trails switching from the stock dhf/dhr to the rekons has been a game changer and really opened up my riding. The bonus is I’ve now got a set of wheels for the bike park days.
Evan, I am from Florida and ride primarily hardtails. I've never been to anything like Bentonville or nothing like that but I can say that watching your videos makes me want to go shred some stuff that will probably end up being overwhelming. Love your videos man love watching what you do keep up the good work. You're out here motivating people❤❤❤
The thing about buying expensive parts is they tend to not just be a lot better but they tend to last a lot longer with better warranty on them
Its actually the same ur just paying for warranty
Yea if you buy Amazon knock offs, but all these parts are from legitimate companies, same warranties and quality. Minus the carbon wheels, they should have a better warranty
Awesome conclusion and showcasing whst Polygon's are capable of!
Your editing skills have gotten so good man!
Thanks for putting so much effort into this series!
Man the amount of effort, dedication, humor. Such a nice series, thank you man!
Thanks Jerry!!
Loved the series, absolute blast!
Congratulations on this season ender Evans, I really enjoyed watching this since I have always been a believer of the Low bike, more power to your channel cheers!
So I really like the way you did the highbike/low bike this year. It really made it more interesting to see at the end how much everything made a difference but then all along you could see each individual part what kind of difference it made. So I’m gonna say good job. I really enjoyed it!
Best UA-cam video concept and very well executed. Love this!
This deserves more views!
Agreed! Views have been dismal compared to season 1
Great series! Thanks for all the hard work
Just binged the last year or so of videos, great stuff man, taught me a lot and looking forward to getting back on the trail!
Love the longer finale video!!! Videography getting better as always. I'm definitely guilty of buying what I want and not what I need
I had exactly the same crash the other week and ended up a lot worse... 🤕 Thanks for your efforts, it makes a difference
Great season!
You really managed to make me forget there's only one of you at times.😂
I appreciate the commitment to the bit!
the quality of your content can't be understated. thanks for all the info
Heck yeah! Made my day seeing this in my feed. Great job on the series 🤘
Dude u are the Man.. just exposing the realwrold situation with extreme priced bike parts, loved every episode.. hello from Croatia
Thanks for finishing out the season, and it's nice to see your brakes up the correct way (right hand = front)
Really enjoyed the series. Great to see thoughtful upgrades on lo bike instead of cheap garbage for laughs like I've seen on other hi/lo shows.
You are looking FAST out there, definitely huge improvements from when you started your channel! Nice work and great work on your video, the editing is on point.
Thank you! Took me a while to figure out how to translate my BMX skills to a mountain bike
Great video, and overall series dude 🤘
The amount of work he puts into these videos is truly amazing
Thanks jasper!
This series is so entertaining and informative. Thanks for all the effort you put in your videos.
Awesome vid I appreciate all the work that went into this series you earned a sub!
I had pretty much the same crash am month or to ago and just 2 weeks ago I crashed and broke my thumb. Love the content dude! Keep up the work!
Always a great series. We need more .
Even though I’ve been out of mountain biking for over 20yrs, really enjoyed this video. 👍🏼
Great Stuff Evan! Thanks for a very cool series and I'm already looking forward to the next thing you drop! Take care of that thumb!
Incredible way to end this series. Awesome to see so much data, riding, and NWA in all these videos.
What a fun and finely produced video!!!
Great series and I always enjoy your channel
Love the Jones Meadow track in the background! Nice touch and great comparisons man
This series is just amazing, definetly gonna watch it again many times. Keep up the amazing work.
I'm gonna post a full season compilation pretty soon. Likely an extended cut
Let's goo 🎉
Cool series and interesting results. Thanks for putting all of this together!
That was an awesome comparison. It really gives me ideas of what the best value for future upgrades. You really put it on the line riding down injured. You probably did it on adrenaline alone. Talk about amazing dedication👍. It looks like you pushed out on your line into some soft stuff. Get better soon👍
Really well done series and really surprising. I’ve always used parts that I thought were budget friendly and felt like they improved my bike. It’s kinda cool to know I’m not completely nuts.
Awesome series!!! Keep up the great work. Love the content
Love the channel, just make content you wanna make, I'm sure your true supporter's will support that.
Thanks so much for the video series, you really did a great job. Been fun to watch you progress so much since the beginning videos, both in video skill and riding skill.
That was a great series! Well done on the hard work - really paid off. Quality of the content, filming editing and even the little motion FX was next level. This should be on Netflix - would rather watch this on TV than most of the other junk on there. I recently did a similar test (actually a bike designer), and tried cheap vs factory level suspension on a downcountry platform. The cheaper suspension was faster, but the more expensive stuff felt substantially better. I think it is because the plusher suspension is not as responsive pogo-sticking you out of corners and ricochet-ing off rocks like the cheaper alternatives. So my nerves were shot on the cheaper stuff, but my times were better.
Another really insightful video, thanks Evan. Really shows you have to ge careful picking upgrades and starting with a frame that suits your trails and style too.
This was a great series! Thank you!
Awesome work, dude!!! Keep it up 😀 Your content ideas are superb!
Great series! Thanks for the time and effort!
Bro so amazing series I waited the whole week looking at your channel waiting for a next vid XDD
Been waiting all week for this!
Great series! You're a great youtuber! and nice editing! 😃
Thanks dude, glad you liked it!
Keep doing it your way Evan! I have a D7 SE and love that you do work with polygon. Thank you for the great content
I truly enjoy your content and editing. Keep up the great work!
Woww Evans, what a great serie. The video edit is amazing. Always is really a nice surprise when you upload a video. You really encourage to develop skills. Thank you and wishing you the best.
Great series! I’m hoping to see some more hardtail stuff from you come out! Loved that series too! Roscoe needs a second chance!
Well done! 👏👏Just goes to show. You don't need all high end parts. Just a few good ones!
Great series! Thanks for putting this together.
Loved this series especially since I ride a polygon d7 and I’ve always felt like this bike is sooo fast stock and wondered what it would be like with some tasteful upgrades. I think I know which direction I wanna go with upgrades I appreciate this series so much!
D7 always felt fast to me! The T7 not so much. I have a whole playlist on my channel where I upgraded a D7, but it's older videos so lower quality 🤣
Loved the series man. Hope your thumb heals up well
Amazing season, video stuff (not my thing) is all improving so much! Love your channel
Thanks dude! I got crazy with editing these, so I really appreciate you noticing.
Well done, man! Love this content!
From Montreal Canada! Your video's are really good now! Keep it up.
Awesome job on the series Evan! Love the timed runs. You will always be a racer 😂
Great series, the comparison between parts is very helpful.
Also, nice camera shots in this video.
Great series as always. Need a bang for your buck comparison, kind of like you did here on cost per second improvement.
Cool to binge the series as i was looking for info on the t6.
Fantastic video, Evan (and Chad)! Good on you for toughing it out after that fall. I had a similar one and ended up tearing my UCL. Hopefully that’s not the case for you. Keep up the hard work!
Thanks Nate! I think I got the opposite side, the RCL. Did you get surgery? How long was recovery?
@@EvansMTBSaga Yes. Dr described it as the same surgery Drew Brees had. I didn’t ride on the trails for 2 months. Lots of PT, 3 times a week.
Great work on this!
Awesome series!! Would love to see some bike brand competition for next hi/lo.
Great series dude 🤘, I would love to see you ride these trails on an Enduro bike. they look amazing.
I love your channel and I really love this series. Keep it up!
Awesome series man! I enjoyed watching every second of it :)
Great series, you put a ton of work into it and it shows. Also I didn't think I would hear "synergistically" and "hawk tuah" in the same video but somehow you pulled it off lol
Thanks man! Chad is very eclectic
High low was fantastic as always….thanks for the videos. My son and I come down to Bentonville from kc several times a year hope to see you out sometime.
Really cool series. I’ve enjoyed it.
Really enjoyed the series, keep it up!
I never comment on videos, but I love what you’re doing. Keep it going 🎉
This must have been a ton of work!! Great job keep it up