That review basically says ‘I prefer long-forked 26in hardtails to short-forked 29in hardtails’ Not very helpful really.
Anyway, the High Latitude has shortish chainstays and a slackish HA and looks on paper like it might be fun. The track-end version also comes in tasty ‘burnt copper’.
Yeah, I’d be interested to know weights. Some of those Genesis bikes seem a bit lardy but that may be down to the build I suppose. It’s how it rides, not what it weighs, though, innit?
sssshhh will you please stop going on about these, last thing i need is them all sold before I get the chance to try/buy one!
(awaiting deliver of a insurance replacement to my m8, to try one..)
i don’t think i’m very tall, but i know i’ve got very long legs (36″) – i’ve always needed big frames – i tried using really long seatposts, but i couldn’t find a 500mm seatpost…
brief review: nice and neutral, if anything it’s bit of a hooligan.
the azonic bars are an awful shape
smorgasboard tyres are really rather good – even in the wet leaf / root / rock / mud mix on my local loop. i was slipping all over the place, but predictably – no dramas.
Nice colour. Overall geometry looks quite similar to my Swift, which I’d also describe as ‘neutral’, tho I’d probably phrase it as ‘versatile’, because it is. They’re of the same ilk I think.
That’s less, for a full build, than I spent on my Swift frame/forks + wheels (Hope Hoops/Crests) + tyres (the rest being cannibalised from elsewhere). (Watch that the Truvativ cranks aren’t an odd BCD that are hard to get chainrings for – I have a set, gave up, and bought XT).
@matt
A good deal but a) I’m skint at the mo, b) I would be swapping kit over so only need wheels, frame, fork and c) I really want Stans rims for light tubelessnesss. Fortitude does look proper nice, though.
Can’t help thinking that light rims are a must on a 29er. Please convince me otherwise, cos it will save me a few bob. Ta.
I can’t convince you otherwise – I bought Crests, which I will get years of use from whatever bike they go on. (But then I cancelled out the Crests with whopping great Hans Dampfs).
I started with Rocket Rons, which are light too, but if I had those on in current conditions I’d be basically sat stationary digging a deep trench with the rear wheel.