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@WRCDH: Dave Turner should get way more credit. I owned a Hl 5 Spot and Flux, and a non- HL, 4 bar free ride bike (burner? RFX?) And they were fracking awesome

Bikes I've owned SC Superlight w/Psylo fork (first DC ever) Specialized Enduro, the one with the Y shape frame nice bike but I sold it to get the all new 5 Spot 1st gen Turner 5 Spot and Flux - loved those bikes but boy did I break the shit out of them A Horst Link Mondraker with 160 mm travel, was a heavy beast Intense SS, never fulfilled it's promise, so then I got a... Banshee Spitfire V1. Boy what a bike! Climbed like XC but opened up DH the faster you'd go! Truly a revelation By then I couldn't be a 26 holdout any longer so I got a Specialized Camber. My first carbon bike too, but meh 2017 Kona Hei Hei CR DL. With 100 mm back and 120 front. The OG DC bike and one of the first with flex stays. Somehow the rear suspension feels like a love child of a horst link Turner and a dual link Banshee. Only change i did is an angle headset to kick out the head angle to 66.5. Love this bike and nothing newer has tempted me so far. *Sorry about the long post :)

From the geo and kinematics this should be a an epic evo doppelganger. A couple tokens in the back with lower psi, sort the lockout and dropper lever, perhaps?

@DirtBagTim: hookup with the Athertons or similar manufacturer and you got yourself the lightest full sus mtb in given category. Maybe sort out the geo to fit pinkbike-minati sensibilities and it's gonna be a hit. Rooting for you.

OK. Core bike is way better than acoustic or analog

Calling*

@slickwilly1: please stop bikes, acoustic bikes.

Amusing coming from an Aussie

Been riding a kona with pressfit for 3 years, never heard a creak... But then again, I'm kinda half deaf after 3 years of infintry service

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