My brother is getting a refund for his 5.5.1(another cracked frame) and cant decide what to replace it with? £2000ish to spend.
He loved the meta but not happy with how long replacements take and lost a bit of confidence in their build quality so what is a similar off the shelf replacement?
Ta.

zesty?

New Remedy looks pretty nice.

Likes the look of them but low spec at the price above!

that was about the Zesty.

Orange 5, they seem to be well regarded ?

Heckler maybe?

im thinking about replacing my meta with either an Orange Five or a Giant Trance X

Orange Five
Giant Trance
Lapierre Zesty
Cove Hustler
Specialized Pitch

All worth a looky.

Orange. Simple, strong (unless your rubbish) and easy to get spares.

Orange
New Remedy
Mondraker Dune
Corsair Marque

In the same boat as you, but want a 66 – 67 max HA….the Marque looks right, just a bit pricey…

That new placcy Remedy is one of the best looking bikes I've seen. Not sure if it's in budget though.

"Giant Trance"
Aside from they aren't made anymore, they were 100/106mm travel?

As above, just look through all the manufacturers at similar (travel) bikes

Trek Remedy 150/150
Gary Fisher Roscoe 140/140
Specialized Stumpjumper FSR (2010) 140/140
Specialized Pitch 140/150
Giant Reign 140/150
Kona Dawg 140/150
(Kona Cadabra 150/160)
Scott Genious 140*/150
Cannondale RZ140 140/140
Lapierre Zesty 140/140
Orange 5 130*/140
Iron Horse MkIII 140/5"
etc etc

*for £2k

2010 meta?

2010 metas are made in a different factory. Zestys are just the new commencal, in a year or two everyone will be talking about how bad they are!

I've not heard of any zesty's failing, certainly not like commencal recently?