“using it for everything from local xc to trail centres and painfully slow, mincing DH”
“found it a bit too xc focused for my taste”
“idea of a Mega, I suspect it would be be fun for half my riding and a bit of a drag for the rest. I’ve reluctantly had to accept that I’m probably not gnarlcore enough for the Mega”
So something that pedals well but inbetween a mk1/V1/V2 El Guapo and a NP Mega for £800?
That’ll be the (current) Titus El Guapo V3 then?
67deg HA, abaility to go upto 2*deg slacker with works components h/set (well within budget) etc
*upto 1.5deg with external lower cup h/set
A 150mm forked V2 EG will do much more than mince painfully slowly down a DH track