Overview
Looking for a Salsa Spearfish? Our lead mechanic & stunt model, Toby, has recently been custom building a few Salsa Horsetheives for our customers here in Tucson. He’s been recommending very solid, light builds, with fun splashes of color that do the job over the long haul. So we decided to some very similar builds for the very similar but more cross-country oriented Spearfish.
Seeing how hard it is to find Salsa Spearfish as complete builds these days, we decided to offer up a size run of them built to Toby’s bikepacking worthy specifications. We call it the Campfire Build. You can call a non-stop blast on the trail when you make this bicycle yours.
And here is what Salsa has to say:
Spearfish is built to crush endurance-testing terrain while thriving on technical climbs and descents. With thoroughly modern geometry and a highly adaptable suspension platform, the Spearfish chases XC and distance efforts, keeping you at the front of the pack.
Features
- Full carbon frame and Split Pivot suspension design with 100mm of efficient travel, remaining fully active under braking while supportive throughout its travel
- A short stem paired with long top tube, combined with a 67.8-degree head tube angle provides confidence at speed without sacrificing agility
- Two full-size bottle cage mounts fit inside the front triangle on all frame sizes. Pair with Anything Bracket and Rescue Roll for pack-free singletrack bliss
- Rear Flip chip adjusts head tube angle and bottom bracket height for terrain, wheel size, and personal preference
- Super Boost 157 x 12mm rear hub spacing combined with a standard width bottom bracket results in a 432mm chainstay length that’s 5mm shorter than previous-generations
- Clearance for multiple wheel/tire combinations: 27.5 x 2.8 – 3.0″, 29 x 2.35’’, and 29 x 2.2 – 2.6’’
Specs
Shared Specs and Parts for All Sizes:
- Frame: Salsa Spearfish Carbon Frameset
- Fork: Fox Performance 34 step cast performance 120mm travel 51 offset 110×15 Fit Grip 3 position in orange
- Headset: Cane Creek 40
- H/set Spacers: Black w/ Orange Wolf Tooth Accent
- Stem: PNW Range 31.8
- Handlebars: 31.8 PNW Range Teal
- Grips/Tape Loam Grips orange
- Seat: WTB Volt Steel
- Wheels: Hope Pro 4 Hubs/ WTB Kom Light Rims DT Double Butted Spokes(This is a Shop-Built wheelset)
- Cassette: 10-52 Sram GX Eagle
- Tubes or Tubeless: Tubeless w/ Stan’s Sealant and Teal Holdfast Valves
- Shifter(s): Sram GX Eagle
- Rear Derailleur: Sram GX Eagle
- Front Derailleur. N/A
- Housing: Teal
- Cables: Stainless Slick
- Crankset: Sram GX Eagle Suberboost
- Chain: Sram Eagle
- Pedals: PNW Range Teal
- Rear Axle: 12mm Thru x 157mm
- Tires size: 29×2.4 (Ardent Front /Ardent Race Rear
- Bottom Bracket: Sram Dub Superboost+ BSA.
- Brake Levers: TRP Slate dual piston Brakeset
- Seatpost/Collar: PNW Loam Seatpost
- Rotors/Pads: Sram Centerline, (Front 180mm, Rear 160mm)
- Brake Housing: N/A
- Brake Cables: N/A
Small:
- Seatpost Travel: 125 mm
- Cranket: 170mm
- TT (Effective): 593
Medium:
- Seatpost Travel: 150 mm
- Cranket: 170mm
- TT (Effective): 615
Large:
- Seatpost Travel: 170 mm
- Crankset: 175mm
- TT (Effective): 636
Warranty
Salsa’s bicycles fall between a 2 and 5 year warranty. Please see Salsa’s extensive warranty details to review their limitations.