i'm not talking about need. which bike is the one you want to ride most?
🙂

After 7 hours in the saddle of my HT, I want to ride a FS.

FS

FS this time of year, but HT (SS) a fair bit also.

Full suss

FS

I go through phases however in the last few months it's my fuss-suss bikes that are getting used more.

Never ridden a proper full sus (or had much desire to) so I guess it's hardtail by default for me!

Dont have a full sus, but when I did I wish I had kept my trailstar. So i bought a hardtail again and its grand.

HT all the way.

The one that is working best, quietly doing it's job, so that is my DH bike at the moment.

Depends! probs 50:50

FS almost all the time, especially now I've got one I really like.

I love riding my Hardtail…but FS is more fun and I can ride faster and go bigger. 🙂

sold my full suss

HT every time,

i cant afford to make a FS light enough, so they just feel heavy, i do miss the traction on climbs and bounce on the downs of my anthem though

Not had the hardtail long, but it was more fun to ride than i thought it would be & was a lot harder on the legs round Thetford than the FS due to having to hover over the saddle all the time.

Going today & as I haven't ridden the FS for a few weeks I'm taking that, but the HT would be just as much fun – perhaps more fun actually around somewhere like Thetford.

HT – but only because I've spent too much time on wallowy bouncers in the past, I know the current lot are far better but I just find riding a good HT so positive now… Horses for courses… of course. 😕

Don't own a FS, just 11 hardtails … perhaps I need to sell something 😀

HT for local trails/races
FS for train centres.

Both of mine have their own purposes and love riding them equally.

Currently the hardtail because the kids keep taking the FS before I get to the garage. I am trying to work out a scam to get a new, steel, long fork HT but The Boss tends to scowl at the mention.

Just being out on any be is enough – I'm easily pleased.

Its all riding – but I prefer HT. Used to have a FS but found I went too fast and it made my trails less involving.

Might get a FS when I find I get too battered riding a HT.

I had hoped that you'd be able to answer the question Jedi. I was toying with the idea of doing a skills session with you later in the year (busted shoulder right now) and asking you which bike I should bring for training. Both get ridden in the sxame way, on the same stuff at siomilar speeds with the same people. I tend to favour which ever one already dirty or whichever one is having kit or settings tweaked.

FS mostly but HT can't be beaten for mucking about in the local woods of Bristol.

Bikes is bikes.

I bought a 100mm travel XC FS – Anthem X

Within a month I'd sold my carbon hardtail as it just didn't get used. The Anthem was more comfortable and quicker pretty much everywhere in the real world. I love that fact I can do a ride and not get back feeling beaten up.

A mate who loves riding a hardtail (he owns a Slayer FS but it almost never gets used) is considering getting a short travel FS since I got mine as you feel so much less fatigued from the bumps.

After a clearance sale, I'm left with my SS hardtail. Promised myself I'd concentrate on riding this for the summer and then look for a FS in the Autumn / Winter.

Hardtail all the time, but then I've only got the one bike now. Not missing FS though

I'll pick up the five in preference everytime at the moment.

then the DH bike.

Whichever one I'm on.

+1 for _tom_ Only got a HT 😕

My 3.5inch fs has taken over from my kitsuma now, and have to say its faster and much more comfy, 3.5 inch is ideal around here, 6.5 travel bike for peaks n cham. Still not selling the kitsuma tho.

HT! don't own a full sus.

forgetmyname, what you got now gaz?

This makes for interesting reading (To me at least) the emerging impression I get is that for many people a relatively “Short travel” FS (sub 4”) is the closest thing to a “Do it all” bike where the various comics would have you believe something in the 5.5-6” travel range is a “one bike to rule them all” type machine….

Is that a fair interpretation?

deffo 🙂

140mm steel hardtail at the moment. Only relly use a fs for downhill and testing suspension tunes e.t.c
Saying that if I had a 4"ish travel fs i'd proably be riding that in this weather.

Depends:

Smashing down stuff – FS

Swooping through singletrack – 90's rigid kona

I have a foes prolite for xc and local riding, and a new fxr for proper riding, both air curnutts set up for me, small bikes done around 700miles in 5 weeks, it rocks mate. Off to cham in 4 weeks with the fxr. Check my posts from a month or 2 ago, theres pics of both there somewhere, id piost pics now but i cant get into my flickr account.
Hope your well, and great to see the wkd reviews your getting, best thing you ever done?