I've a Kona Dwag and love it for the lakes and more knarly stuff but I reach for my Orange evo2 which I've customed to the max more often than not.
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Anyone gone back to hardtail after a full sus bike ??
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I ride an ancient Rocky mountain Elevation, ali hardtail and am currently looking to replace it. The HT/FS conflict has really got to me. I love to ride so I feel like I'm on the edge, with a HT thats pretty easy to achieve so the adrenaline rush is at less insane speeds and smaller jumps. If I went to FS would I just get soft or risk injury by looking for that buzz by going faster and bigger, I'm still trying to solve that one.
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I had a trance but tbh I felt like it was always holding me back as did my old sub5
Sold the trance and now I am a happy bunny with a poverty 456
No i do not miss the soft back end because when it is rough I stood up anyway
Problem is the 456 makes me decend too quickly hence my big stack on the Q's saturday
Buy both.
Although if you were getting back problems I'd suggest that even the "zing" of Ti will make around about no difference whatsoever, so keep it for shorter rides.
To be honest, I don't really buy into the whole "woo really nice ride from a ti hardtail", having owned one. Then again mine lasted 3 months and snapped halfway down a hill with a very very long walk home (if the guides hadn't been able to sort us out a lift)...
Went back to a hardtail cos there cheaper, have less to faff with, are better for jumps/messing about on/riding on the road and its what I started on.
Cant justify the cost of a full sus frame and cant justify owning two bikes when one of them would only get ridden a couple of times per month.
I might get another dh bike this spring or summer but it will probably be a cheap 2nd hand one
I questioned this. Had a Stumpy FSR and an old Patriot. Wanted to sell both and get one bike as I lived in a small flat, and couldn't afford to look after 2 bikes. Looked at Chameleons a lot, but plumped for another Orange FS in the end. Not sure if I buy into the 'purist' view - think it's just a preference to the ride - , but give it a go. Sounds like a lot of people love 'em.
Only FS for me off road. Basically, they're more fun for 97.62% of the riding I enjoy (I'm not a dirt jumper, or a 4X rider for whom pure speed over one minute is the driver). I still sort of miss my stiffee, but I enjoy bouncy bikes more, even on my local XC trails.
The maintenance thing is a red herring, especially if you go single pivot. 30 mins to change the bearings every year if you're unlucky, an annual service of the shock if you're fastidious (a whole 3 days without your bike). Ohh the hardship...
I had a carbon HT and a 6" FS, then bought a steel 456 as a winter bike.
Built it up with various bits, rode and loved it. Flogged the 2 frames I had, kept all the bits. Use the bits as 2 'build kits' for the 456.
Recently bought a Ti 456 (stripped steel one down), even better.
Steel was far comfy-ier than I'd imagined, and Ti more so.
Its only £150 for a frame, try one - if not happy ebay it.
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My Blur LT2 goes into hibernation for the winter - it doesn't like the mud :…
but I can still see the benefits of a trance or similar for proper fast XC riders, that’s just not me, HT’s work for me at the minute… but that's just me...
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