What is the right amount of travel on a aggressive hard tail?

Best frame material for a hard tail?

Preferred top tube length?

Preferred frame size?

Preferred wheel size front and rear?

Slack ,steep, or somewhere in the middle. -(Head tube angle)

How much would you pay for a highly specked aggressive hard tail?

Singlespeed or geared?

Hard tail or rigid ?

Big tyres 2.35+ or small tyres anything up to 2.35?

Thick tubes or small tubes for the frame?

Low BB or high BB?

ta Al

Define aggressive!? I’d say:

120mm
Carbon
The right length (no idea what any of my bikes are)
17″-18″
26″
Middle
As much as it was worth- my FS is over £4500 in the shops, so not really bothered!
Geared
Hardtail
Less than 2.35″
Depends on material
Middle

Bear in mind I’m an XC racer, and would never actually buy an ‘aggressive hardtail’ I’d sooner have a 5″ travel FS, but I’m bored, and my answers are still valid I guess!

If this is for a piece of c.work you may want to set up an online survey. Much easier for you to collate the info and user friendly for people to use.

130mm

steel

22.75

18″

26″

69/70deg

250 for the frame, upto a grand maybe on a build?

geared

Hard tail

2.1-2.35 dependig on my mood

steel, so generaly on the smaller side

Low BB

You missed out chainstay length, which should be as short as physicaly possible. any my top tube is on the short side as i run 90mm stems.

Is this a trick question…..

Cheers for that spoon.

unsponsered I just really need everyday bikers normal people plus this is easy as school haven’t blocked this site yet .

Stu it’s not a trick Question Promise 🙂

“aggressive” By that i mean a bike your going to chuck down single track (not literately) a bit towards freeride I suppose jumps drop big rock gardens etc lots of roots very technical stuff. if you get me

(m)Alex

What is the right amount of travel on a aggressive hard tail? 130mm

Best frame material for a hard tail? Steel/Unobtanium

Preferred top tube length? 22.5″

Preferred frame size? 16″

Preferred wheel size front and rear? 26/26

Slack ,steep, or somewhere in the middle. -(Head tube angle) Probably

How much would you pay for a highly specked aggressive hard tail? £1500 absolute max.

Singlespeed or geared? Don’t be silly, I’m not a ludite.

Hard tail or rigid ? See above

Big tyres 2.35+ or small tyres anything up to 2.35? 2.35

Thick tubes or small tubes for the frame? Appropriate tubes. If I can see the FEA, so much the better.

Low BB or high BB? Low

What is the right amount of travel on a aggressive hard tail? – 130mm

Best frame material for a hard tail? – aluminium for agressive stuff, steel for longer rides

Preferred top tube length? 23 inch ish

Preferred frame size? – 17 to 18 inches

Preferred wheel size front and rear? – 26 inches

Slack ,steep, or somewhere in the middle. -(Head tube angle) – slack

How much would you pay for a highly specked aggressive hard tail? – 1000 max

Singlespeed or geared? either but for aggressive stuff probably geared is best

Hard tail or rigid ? hardtail

Big tyres 2.35+ or small tyres anything up to 2.35? 2.35

Thick tubes or small tubes for the frame? – what’s needed with no pointless pose tubing

Low BB or high BB? Low and a bashring

What is the right amount of travel on a aggressive hard tail? 14-150mm

Best frame material for a hard tail? 853 steel

Preferred top tube length?

Preferred frame size? 17″

Preferred wheel size front and rear? 26″

Slack ,steep, or somewhere in the middle. -(Head tube angle) 67′

How much would you pay for a highly specked aggressive hard tail? £1500

Singlespeed or geared? geared

Hard tail or rigid ? hardtail

Big tyres 2.35+ or small tyres anything up to 2.35? 2.35

Thick tubes or small tubes for the frame? thin

Low BB or high BB? low

why not ask people to fill in a form > google docs forms

What is the right amount of travel on a aggressive hard tail? 140mm

Best frame material for a hard tail? Steel – Cromoly

Preferred top tube length? 22″ (But i’ve got a really long body with short legs, 6’3″ with a 32″ inside leg)

Preferred frame size? L or 19″

Preferred wheel size front and rear? 26″ both ends (But I would like to try a 29er at some point as I am tall)

Slack ,steep, or somewhere in the middle. -(Head tube angle)Steep (ish)

How much would you pay for a highly specked aggressive hard tail? upto £1500

Singlespeed or geared? Geared – definately Too many “Big” mountains in this bit of Wakes

Hard tail or rigid ? HT But I’m loving my rigid cross bike at the moment

Big tyres 2.35+ or small tyres anything up to 2.35? 2.4

Thick tubes or small tubes for the frame? Small tubes

Low BB or high BB? Low BB

Hope this helps, good luck with your GCSE’s. I built a Full susser (really badly) for my A Level “Design Tech” and my mate built a Hydraulic Disc brake, back in 1994 !!!