Zakmrk2

I own an XL G1 and I’m 6.4, over the years I’ve ridden lots of bikes and like many of the comments suggest smaller bikes with less travel are poppy and playful ! However this is all relative to your terrain and the speeds you’re going! I used to live in the South East of England where the trails were all very below average and you needed a small travel short bike to bring life to the trail, popping off things and pulling a manual etc. Then last year I moved to North Wales right by DYFI bike park! The terrain and speeds up here dissolve bikes with 475 reach and 150 travel . When descending at 40 miles per hour and hitting huge drops and step downs into fast high berms a long travel, long reach stable bike is the choice of weapon . It’s this reason the other manufacturers are catching up, the trails and bike parks are getting faster and faster . The higher the speed the longer and slacker the bike needs to be, exactly why your MX bike is really big ! The speeds in the sport are much higher now than they used to be .