FrankGER

Has anybody experience with running the SB140 spec'ed with a X2 shock? I am thinking about to make a "Little SB160" out of it. The SB160 has too much travel for my needs but due to my height/weight I want to give the SB140 a more robust set up eg. Fox 38 + Fox Float X2. How does it work? Any hints for the tune?

Pivot Switchblade???

I do not get the critics on especially downhill handling. The bike was not really changed a lot from the 2019 SB130LR in terms from geometry e.g. the head angle is the same. Back in Dec 2018 PB said: "The SB130 hits out of its league on descents, so much so that I've consistently found myself questioning the safety of the speeds I feel comfortable riding this bike." I know time goes buy and the comparisons are now different. But the jumps in geometries since than has not been that big anymore... On top everything I heard from the SB130 and SB150 line up in the past was, that on these bikes you have to overcome yourself to lean to the front to get everything out of it. Hence more bike for the Pros than for normal people. More or less the opposite to "over the front kind of a feeling" what was mentioned here. A 180 degree twist although geometry almost the same. And when I hear, "I would prefer a higher stack", "shorter stem" and something into the direction of "head angle to steep" (=front hub not far enough in the front), why not taking a size bigger??? Stack goes up, front hub goes further out to the front and as compensation for this reach/length increase use a shorter stem. Front hub more to the front an stem shorter is a good combination to fight the "over the front kind of a feeling". To make a long story short. Were all the weaknesses mentioned a result of a to small (short) bike???