That's why I ride hardtail

 Have a good health insurance check before riding this bike

 Totems are fine but they are fun to ride uphill,bit of wrestling to get up.These bikes pedal very good uphill no matter what single crown fork that is 150mm up to 180mm travel.

 Wrestling? Try ascending with 888rc Actually I am costum tuning it again. I will try to set up more low speed compression without changing its overall travel and progression. I am mixing heattreatment of custom springs, oil viscosity mix and customizing compression damping. This is called witchcraft. I know it's old and I will have to buy something new eventually, but the best thing of it is that I can do every tuning by myself. It's simple and durable.

Anyway have you though about buying syntace liteville 601 or 301? They are a nice offer as far as trail bikes are concerned. Check the weight of the frames and their details. I like the 601, it's hanger reinforcement and chain tensioner integrated. I tried to buy it once, but the Germans told me I am too heavy for this.

Totem looks heavy for this particular bike, but if there was a pike there the overall bike character would not be so aggressive and that's not good. Looks quite short, probably S size frame. It looks weird for me to have any spacers under the stem and still wonder how the chain stays on the chainring. Probably the new chainring shape. The best thing about it is shock that is always clean in this place, although I don't know if so safe when any malfunction of its mountings.

 It has the N/W chainring so I had no chaindrop on the rough stuff on the downhills,yes it's a small (16,5'') frame and the fork looks massive but the frame feels super stiff with this fork with this setup(i like that)

I have more control on the bike than with any other forks I tried,the front end doesn't bounce back when I land some jumps,very buttery smooth with those black stanchions.Liteville makes great bikes both the 601/301 but I see most riding 301's for trail riding but you can't go wrong with either, shame that only a view shocks can work with the liteville platform.

New pikes doesn't fit this frame it doesn't have a Tapered headtube just a ZS44 standard for 1.1/8'' steers.

 Taperring is a very good invention. I saw some standard steering tubes broken just over a crown of a one crown fork. Tapered is stroner and lighter. They are introducing tapered into double crown forks now, so I think standard steer will disappear soon, to become a museum expo.

Anyway I like the bike very much. How much does it weigh?

 bike weights 14.26kg with Totem,this bike still rides good with such behemoth of a fork mounted.

 When I think of enduro, I would build a hard enduro version, when I think about trail, it would be hard trail version. I don't think about xc much and it is hard to think of harder downhill bikes than they really are, so concluding I like this bike, although it would normally look as if the fork was just to heavy weapon for the rest. Like totem and a bottle holder. I am sure you agree that it is not so common view, but why not? Hard trail bike. 14,26kg can be reached with an expensive carbon downhill bike and this is the main reason why I shall keep riding trails on my gradually upgrated dh machine.