I am 6'2" - 175lbs and my bike is an XL.
I bet there are loads of snakes hiding out there!I've had a gnarly run at work lately with a brutal grind to a deadline. I used that as an excuse to take a Monday/Friday off and treat myself to a 4 day weekend of bike riding and working on bikes. Much needed and overall it was a success. I had plans to ride all of my bikes in that time period, but the stress meant that my neck was a mess, so I changed my plans to spend 4 days riding the bullit... what a bummer
I do have a substantial amount of information to share with regards to range both with and without the range extender, see the below list of rides and battery consumption.
I've also been playing with bike setup and trying out some different parts:
At any rate, onto the riding and the range impressions.
- PNW Loam Carbon 50mm Rise Bars & RF Turbine R 40mm Stem. I find that my thumbs/hands benefit from the additional back sweep of the pnw loam bars. They are a touch stiffer then the oneup carbon bars (not quite as stuff as the oneup alu bars) and they provide a bit more direct feel. That being said, the benefits for me are a slightly shorter cockpit/reach and the hand position due to the increased back sweep.
- Avalanche tuned Marzocchi bomber CR - This was tuned for my transition relay and I am keeping it to try on the bullit. The first ride I did with it, I left the bike in low progression and I didn't quite feel like the coil shock was better then the stock float X. I did the second ride with the bike in the higher progression setting and it was way better. I am still fiddling with the compression, rebound and spring rate so it's very initial days. That being said, the coil shock does have some traction advantages, although they are not as significant on this bike as the difference between air/coil on other bikes IMO. I think right now, I'm 50/50 on if this is an improvement or not. I don't think that points to anything bad about the coil setup, but more that Santacruz did a great job with the float X tuning and that the kinematics for this bike are something special. More time/tuning to come before I will give a real comparison.
Day 1 - Epic Day Range Test - 27.6 Miles / ~7,000' elevation gain - w/Range Extender - 25% battery remaining. Mostly tour/emtb with boost a handful of times for steep climbs.
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Day 2 - 14.5 Miles / ~3,500' elevation gain - NO range extender - 40% battery remaining - Tour/Emtb and boost for some of the steeper climb sections only.
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Day 3 - 24 Miles / ~5,100 elevation gain - NO range extender - 5% battery remaining - Nearly equal usage of all modes.
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Day 4 - 24 Miles / ~5,500' elevation gain - Range Extender - 30% Emtb / 70% Boost - 15% battery remaining.
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And some bike glamor shot photos from the rides along the way.
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Thanks! Looks like you rode some legit distance and elevation with legit range. Very, very cool
agreed on the shock tune for the bullit kinematics! i bought an off the shelf 2026 float x2 and tuned it for atleast half a day on our local trails! did all the bracketing and i could not get it to feel as good as the stock float X. i borrowed my friends Float X2 that came with the bullit and the difference is night and day! LMK if you need the Tune code for the float X2. i sent mine today to Fox to be retuned / re-valve and they charged me $150I've had a gnarly run at work lately with a brutal grind to a deadline. I used that as an excuse to take a Monday/Friday off and treat myself to a 4 day weekend of bike riding and working on bikes. Much needed and overall it was a success. I had plans to ride all of my bikes in that time period, but the stress meant that my neck was a mess, so I changed my plans to spend 4 days riding the bullit... what a bummer
I do have a substantial amount of information to share with regards to range both with and without the range extender, see the below list of rides and battery consumption.
I've also been playing with bike setup and trying out some different parts:
At any rate, onto the riding and the range impressions.
- PNW Loam Carbon 50mm Rise Bars & RF Turbine R 40mm Stem. I find that my thumbs/hands benefit from the additional back sweep of the pnw loam bars. They are a touch stiffer then the oneup carbon bars (not quite as stuff as the oneup alu bars) and they provide a bit more direct feel. That being said, the benefits for me are a slightly shorter cockpit/reach and the hand position due to the increased back sweep.
- Avalanche tuned Marzocchi bomber CR - This was tuned for my transition relay and I am keeping it to try on the bullit. The first ride I did with it, I left the bike in low progression and I didn't quite feel like the coil shock was better then the stock float X. I did the second ride with the bike in the higher progression setting and it was way better. I am still fiddling with the compression, rebound and spring rate so it's very initial days. That being said, the coil shock does have some traction advantages, although they are not as significant on this bike as the difference between air/coil on other bikes IMO. I think right now, I'm 50/50 on if this is an improvement or not. I don't think that points to anything bad about the coil setup, but more that Santacruz did a great job with the float X tuning and that the kinematics for this bike are something special. More time/tuning to come before I will give a real comparison.
Day 1 - Epic Day Range Test - 27.6 Miles / ~7,000' elevation gain - w/Range Extender - 25% battery remaining. Mostly tour/emtb with boost a handful of times for steep climbs.
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Day 2 - 14.5 Miles / ~3,500' elevation gain - NO range extender - 40% battery remaining - Tour/Emtb and boost for some of the steeper climb sections only.
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Day 3 - 24 Miles / ~5,100 elevation gain - NO range extender - 5% battery remaining - Nearly equal usage of all modes.
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Day 4 - 24 Miles / ~5,500' elevation gain - Range Extender - 30% Emtb / 70% Boost - 15% battery remaining.
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And some bike glamor shot photos from the rides along the way.
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here is the shock tune for the Bullit V4 2026 Float X2 - CS40 - B40 - RS50 - 0.7B - 8cc - Position 2
Curious how this all worked out... did you just call them and ask to have it setup to match the units that come from Santa Cruz directly? I have one inbound and figure why waste time mounting it if I should just send it direct to Fox.
i created a service request through fox then input what i want on the comment section plus the tune code i want. dont waste your time on the off the shelf tune like i did lol! i thought i got it dialed until i put the float X back and im like WTFFFFFFFF LMAO!!
super helpful. How did you track down the tune code for the bullit? And you're happy with the net result?
i asked Santa Cruz rep for the tune code.
Depends on the color. I've had slik nail certain colors like my wife's coral blue and copper rise, ny fs green megatower 1 and completely fail at other colors like my gloss gypsum nomad 6. Their ability to hit the colors is somewhat predictable, if it's a non metallic and it has a high degree of saturation, it's going to be hit or miss. That comes down to the fact that they are printing these on white vinyl and it's just the nature of cmyk printing without guaranteed calibration. I find that they for sure have better success with metal flake matches.
Be sure to post some pics when you get them!
I was hoping you were going to say that, the yellow magura colors with the teal is going to look sick.
Hey, very interesting, thank you for that! How would you describe the difference between the Float x and the tuned Float X2 on the bike? I only got to test a build with the float x, while I had a ton of fun I wish it was it had a little more “pop“. Though suspension with the stock float x was not tuned well at all (only 1.5h test ride..). Since I got a bad back as of last year im leaning more towards the bullit than the poppier vala for my own safety. Im just curious if this can be improved (obviously by better suspension set up, or float x2 or maybe even a coil). Any comment would be appreciated!
they both feel nearly identical but the X2 was plusher for the 1st 50% of the travel. if you want extra pop then volume spacers or 27% sag is the key but plushness will go away.
a little more plushness could be a good basis to play with rebound and sag for a tiny bit pop, thanks for the feedback.
