Stanton Slackline? LBS has a frame and very nice it is. £400

it will if he buys my as new ‘run a std fork in a c456 frame’ Hope headset off me for £40 🙂

If it’s going to be really special, try and ride a few.

Even if you have to spend £30 a time borrowing them from bike shops, it makes you so much more settled on the final choice and it’s really fun ragging a few different bikes down the same trail.

Plenty of shops have Cotic demos and some of the other manufactures have bikes they can move from shop-to-shop for you to book.

My shortlist around £400 would be:

Cotic Soul
Cotic BFe
Stanton Slackline (I know this one may be tricky to demo)
Transition Trans Am
One of those skinny-tubed Charge Dusters
Ragley Piglet

Or something like that anyway.

BTW, I’m 40 this year too. sob…

And has a very weird mix of mega-bling and heavy old rubbish spec.

OP – the Carbon 456 is amazing, I’m sure you wouldn’t regret getting one.

You can get an adaptor to solve the steerer width issue, if you don;t buy wwasaas’ headset.

I’m not sure I can remember as far back as my 40th

I went through the mid life 5 years ago and pretty much did the same. I treated myself to a Ti456 for that magic 40 after having a Cannondale Prophet, but have now moved again onto the Scandal 29er’s.
Clown bikes suit us old folk!

I try to keep my wife informed of everything I do regarding my bikes, but she is not bothered so I just keep buying stuff when I need it. I’ve got to say though, she would notice me missing for 2 weeks! 😉
Good luck with that!

Go with your original plan, i love my C456 and for the money they are superb!! the only things you’ll need to change are things like the seat post and clamp but most of the parts off your s456 will go straight on it 🙂

By the way, i’m 42 this year and still ride BMXs as well as my 456 whenever i can. you’re a long time dead

Crappy picture of mine
http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b339/robertbransby/c4566.jpg%5B/img%5D

i bought a used cyclocross bike, coming up 6 years ago now, hav’nt looked back since.

my mate went out and bought a Marin mount vision pro (we’re talking 15 years ago now) it went to the Alps once where he fell off braking his shoulder down punchure alley. It has sat in his garage since and never moved!

Mine was a Planet X Stealth to try and get me round The Outlaw triathlon in a respectable time later this year.

There may be a classic ti or high end steel hardtail (like I lusted after when I first started biking) later this year though….

I bought a socom and went to whistler!

Looks aside the c456 is really very good.

Must be a soft northerner thing.

This looks mighty interesting, is something a bit special, and a bargain at the preorder price…

Dialled PA 853

Midlife crisis at 40 😯

I had mine at 20, as back then I was convinced my lifestyle would make sure I never reached 40!

I am turning 40 in April 😆 Can’t wait!! I get to prove myself wrong!

Would love another bike… either the slackline or a soul… but can’t afford it…. Never mind! Just keep riding what I have!

www – I’ve got too much invested in 26″ wheels to start moving to clown bikes. And I’m a bit of a shortarse 🙂

Not mine. Image off the Stanton web site.

I have a Cotic Soul with appropriately priced wheels.

<is relieved>

😀