Best to be objective if one has to go, make a pros/cons list for both see which comes out on top. flog the other…

then regret your decision.

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rather than one chucked together in a shed next door to a White Flag factory.
Is that the one next door to the unused ammunition dump?

Yep probably, here’s one of the work force

From reading your posts it seems that your head says keep the zesty but your heart is having a little difficulty giving up the five.
You seem to have a lot more pro’s for keeping the zesty..so go with that ( and I’m a five owner!)

sell me the zesty.. use the five for it’s intended purpose (filing cabinet) and take up hill-walking..

problem solved..

and take up hill-walking..

…..s’pose I could grow a beard and borrow my pals Marin…hmm..yeah, well, the BB is so high, I’d also need an oxygen tank, but at least I’d never get pedals strikes;)

The head is saying sell the Five, but I’ve just found this photo of it. I know the ‘filing cabinet haters’ won’t appreciate it, but I think it looks the business (and just for comparison, there’s a pic of the Zesty)

p.s. take no notice of the ‘lady saddle’ on the Zesty – the wife had borrowed the bike for a bit 🙄 (shock horror – she’s actually bought her own bike now)

You’ve got better forks on the lapierre. If you had like for like would it swing it towards the five?

If itd make the five a better experience? Sell the zesty and spend the money on bling 36 kashima talas forks for the five.

From reading your posts it seems that your head says keep the zesty but your heart is having a little difficulty giving up the five.
You seem to have a lot more pro’s for keeping the zesty..so go with that ( and I’m a five owner!)

Yep, sound advice. TBH, I’ve had tons of bikes, and I never thought I’d ever get so attached to a bike. It’s bloomin’ daft, but I guess as a Five owner, you know that they really are good. For years I wouldn’t buy a Five based upon its looks, but after someone lent me one for a long weekend, I was converted – I kept sessioning the same set of bermed corners ‘cos I loved the way it kind of squatted in and railed ’em. (that ripping sound as the tyres bite into the corner…..phwoarrr!) S’pose the ‘squatiness’ is just something more common to single pivot bikes, or maybe it’s just that I haven’t had the bottle to chuck the Zesty into any berms hard and fast enough yet:wink:

the 5 – people will be willing to pay over the odds for it! haha

With all the bikes available that specialise is such different terrain or to do different jobs, how did you manage to end up owning two with such an overlap (two medium/long travel full sussers) when you could have extended you riding pleasure in so many differing directions instead?

spend the money on bling 36 kashima talas forks for the five.

Oh strewth, don’t tempt me! I ran the Five with Vans on for a few months, and OMG, it felt like a complete monster truck (in a good way) – quite funny the way you could just plough through things 🙂 (I put the Revs back on to force myself to use a bit more technique, oh, and they took about 2lbs off the front end! TBH, the Revs that are on it are one of the blackbox damped jobs, so they’re way better than other Revs I’ve had)

With all the bikes available that specialise is such different terrain or to do different jobs, how did you manage to end up owning two with such an overlap (two medium/long travel full sussers) when you could have extended you riding pleasure in so many differing directions instead?

I don’t want to brag or advertise my ‘fleet’ on here, else it tempts the robbers – but err…shall we say, I do have other less overlappy bikes at my disposal. As I’d mentioned earlier, the problem of ending up with two such similar bikes is all my wifes fault 😉

I want your wife – and possibly in that way too! Photo?

edit – and with such an understanding wife at your disposal maybe the answer is the middle way – sell both and buy something new to fill the void.

haha the very worst of singletrack, right here.

i’ve got 2 of the top 5 trail bikes (as voted for by what mountain bike and mbr) I can’t decide which to sell

on a lighter note, i’d try losing a grand or so selling the 5 as the zesty doesn’t want to go.

http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/fs-zesty-514-2011-model

or try selling it for a decent price.

or try selling it for a decent price

oo..meeoww, she’s got her claws out.

haha the very worst of singletrack, right here

there is a certain irony in that 😆

Looking at the pictures on that thread, have you ever actually ridden the Zesty?

understanding wife

haha..you ain’t met her!

Sell them both then buy and build up a new 2012 very high spec 5.

Looking at the pictures on that thread, have you ever actually ridden the Zesty?

I’ve ridden it more than when those pics were taken, but (apart from tyres) its appearance hasn’t really changed.