depends what you want to do with it. The blood is pretty much made for bike parks so like jumps and berms and vert. Whereas the five is a much better trail bike both for going up hills and down and if u run the five in the am style you can pretty much do downhill on it

 really that sucks its been pretty nice for the fast 2 weeks in the uk but our trails got destroyed last week so now we are going to find somewhere different to build and ride

 brutal - destroyed by people ? how do you like the five compared to the blood ? - I always thought the blood was a sweet ride

 looks like people they left some bits of the old trail but destroyed the bits we added so i dunno who did it kinda pissed off tho. The blood was an ok bike but i had it in 15.5 inch which is way too small for me. Also i find myself going up hills more and the blood is pretty useless for that

 right on

 yh just the standard colour its not as dark in real life

 thanks man the gearing is getting an overhaul full x.0

 sram all the way - nice crisp snappy shifting - you will love it

 yh i usually run it on all my bikes but i traded my blood for this and it came with this gearing, will you tell me how u get along with that gamut dual guide cause im thinking about changing mine to one?

 thanks man this is quite an old pic much updated now