2011 Mongoose Salvo Full Suspension Mountain Bike
Making a debut over at Deer Valley together with TeoCali Super was the 2011 Mongoose Salvo Elite. Mongoose tags the Salvo at about $1300 but gives you a sweet ride with a lighter front triangle and the use of a floating suspension system.
The new frame platform for the Salvo highlights the floating suspension which makes the setup of shocks easy to do and even promotes longer life of the shock. This also takes a chunk of the force your frame normally receives.
The 2011 Mongoose Salvo has water bottle mounting and adjustable 95-120mm travel. The adjustment can be done with a quick release lever which you can move to 95mm and this will stiffen the rear end. At this point, you can feel the bike snap around corners and gives you better pedal efficiency. If you move it to 120mm, you will feel a plushier rear but still gives you the edge you are looking for when you turn at corners.
The Mongoose 2011 Salvo Elite also comes with what Mongoose calls the Johnny Six-Pack. This is a customization area wherein plastic caps are placed over the bearings. They are detachable and can be replaced with say, you’re personal favorite bottle cap. In a way, this makes the Salvo Elite more yours.
No one in their right mind would buy such an over priced and under performing pile of steamy dog pewp. Seriously with as many people that are losing their homes and jobs Mongoose should consider making more bikes for walmart that real homeless people can afford. Some one needs to slap mongoose in the taint with a sock full of pickles.
got it love it … nice job mongoose. paul, if your unemployed than you shouldn’t write comments here but update your cv.
Yeah, that was a bit of ignorance Paul. I own a GT which is owned by the same company mongoose is under and I know that mongoose is a good quality bike. They’ve been around for a long time and they deserve some respect for that. It does look like good quality and Trek proved that the floating suspension works. Mongoose just tweeked it out, so I”m sure that the bike rocks.
I am very pleased with my Mongoose Salvo. Apart from the neat appearance, this bike is very suitable for the kind of terrain I ride. The floating suspension really works for off-road surfaces, and the accessible lock-out allows for a quick shift for uphill and road rides.
can this bike be used for downhill and if not can u put a rear shock with more travel on the bike?
well, I’ve bought this bike 3 months ago and let me tell you something, this bike is a fu*king joke. I use it every day for traveling to work (6+6 km every day). After 2 months this bike sounds worse than my 10 years old bike. It makes noises everywhere – in the front, in the middle and in the back. It’s terrible and an opposite from a solid bike. Of course the shop where I bought it did not answer my attempts for reclamation, so I tried to fix it myself and guess what I’ve found – it’s all made in Taiwan man!! Cheap piece of ****, nothing else. Don’t buy it, otherwise you gonna hate yourself how stupid you’re.
Okay, so I’m back to report that I have put the bike to a repair shop, where they disassembled it, they cleaned it and oiled it everywhere and then they assembled it back. Now the bike is just fine, it doesn’t make any noises at all, really a huge difference. Now it’s a proper bike like it should be. I hope I was wrong when I said the bike is a fu*king joke, perhaps the shop where I’ve bought was totally lame that they didn’t oil it or something.. Anyway, I will come here again in case the bike starts making noises again…
idiot, thanks for your feedback, I’m seriously thinking of buying the Salvo Comp (2011) model, glad to hear the noises got fixed.
I got myself a 2011 comp sport on special about 8 months ago.Straight away I swapped all the parts from my existing bike. I initially rode the bike with stock suspension while waiting for new parts and wasn’t surprised that it didnt perform that well. However with the new shock and forks the bike has proved more than capalble. I use it mainly for heavy XC riding, and with a shorter stem it even jumps quite nice.
I would recommend this bike to any one, with the right components it is a pretty sweet plush ride.
@mike parie the travel is adjustable from 95mm-120mm. That is the travel limit of the frame. A new shock would not be able to increase that. So to answer your question, NO you want almost double that rear wheel travel to ride downhill. Not too mention the fact that nothing else on this bike would be able to handle downhill either…