Turner sultan with revs at 140mm here. Also had a Solaris run as a 1×9 trail bike until a few months ago running revs at 120mm. Currently waiting for my quarter horse to be built and shipped.
The sultan is fine with 140mm revs, but there’s no getting away from its weight if you build it with a spec to suit the travel. I built the sultan to be my go anywhere, do anything bike, so it has a slight bias to the big mountain chunk end of things ( dropper post, Hans dampf’s, 35mm rims, big bars, brakes, etc…), although it’s still perfectly rideable all day as a trail bike, I won’t be winning any races on it any time soon.
I ride with candodavid on this forum, who has a SC Tallboy Ltc. He’s built it a great deal lighter than my sultan (5lbs!), but it is a dream build by anyone’s standards, whereas mine is sort of XT spec trail workhorse build. I know from riding it that the tallboy is stiffer, although the flex in the sultan isn’t huge, and it seems to give some extra grip, unlike some bikes where flex seems to create more handling issues, the Sultan seems to sort of flex around and hold the ground. It’s difficult to describe, as you can probably tell.
If I had budget, I’d probably get the tallboy, but I got my sultan new for 995 in the last crc turner sale, which was a no brainer.