unless your riding is radically different to what is was seven years ago.
It is. I then wanted it as a SE singletrack HT and part time race bike – I built it on the light side of trail – XT, SID, AC – its been and still is great for that.
Since then I’m full time racing, and specifically this year XC Marathon racing. So I have a Carbon 29er HT for the short races, and intend to replace my 2014 Anthem 29er with a Scott Spark over the coming months. My view is the Spark can accomdate both short and long races, so both the Carbon HT and Anthem will go. But I want a) a winter bike and b) a bike I can use to enable me to push the boundaries of my current skill set – hence leaning towards a P7 in the other thread or this modification in this one to save the money in not buying the P7.
I realise I can replicate the P7s geo with this, or its140mm fork – but can I slighly modify the Engima to make it a tad more “slack”? Its already long in the TT as per the old Kona geometary, but yes has the steeper HA. It seems the consensus is bigger tyres and a 120 Rev or similar…