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@a-prince: had a Double Barrel before which felt noticeably smoother.

and even more confusing with all the X2 issues and, besides that, I've never actually met someone who really likes their X2 (including me). I'd bury that name.

@Aphex-: at 70 kg with a soft spring I could barely use 150 mm of travel with huck to flats on purpose. Some said the o ring in the coil chamber gives it a natural air progression by the trapped air, if that's the case this unadjustable progression does not work at all with the soft spring. I also tried removing the o ring to little effect. It felt like the progression set it just before half way of the travel. If I buy a coil fork, I explicitly don't want as much progression, and it was a lot more than a stock Lyrik with Tokens. Combined with the large amount of high speed compression on all valves which you can't decrease it was almost unusable and I never had as much front wheel slip and as much arm pump (which I usually don't have). Tried the blue, gold and silver CTS. At the end I tested them all fully open. The rebound was also noticeably worse than any fork I had before, never being able to find a balance between suppleness with traction and sucking up big hits. Sent it in and aparently the bushings were too tight and adjusted but it only increased the suppleness a bit and did not fix my problems. If I road over a square edge hit like a curbstone, the fork almost did not move at all (around 20 mm).

on which spring and how much weight? Mine was horrible...sold it after a couple of weeks.

I'm the same, 90 cm inseam at 1,81 m. I found that not sizing down and a short back end (sacrilege!) help me massively keeping my tyres evenly weighted. What Greg always tries to achieve based on older Syndicate videos is balanced weight distribution on both wheels through stem lengths etc. If you think about it, having long legs shifts your bodies center of gravity forward more when you stand up in a riding position. Might explain why some people have difficulty weighting the front wheel with newer long bikes and long torsos. I've never had that problem with my SB150. With my previous old bike I always had understeer because I was lying on the front wheel basically.

@TEAM-ROBOT: exactly, you'd be surprised how much an "extremely overpriced" tyre for example costs for a distributor.

@endoplasmicreticulum: why should less progression be a drawback? Other companies stated that a lot of progression was slower in their timed testing, especially for enduro.

Wide adjustment range? Am I the only one who thinks 7 clicks out from closed at the HSC should be more like 4 and finer steps between what is now 8 clicks and 7 clicks?

you can get pinch flats with tubeless.

@Canadmos: Shimano is also a good option for BB92s with bad tolerances (most of them) since you can use a threaded press fit BB like Hope which helps with alignment and spins a bit easier with misaligned BB bores. The only drawback of Shimano cranks is that the impact resistance isn't as tough. I have some bent XT cranks but my much more abused Turbine crank would be pretty hard to bend...