Personally I want one as I reckon it would be spot on for the Surrey Hills
That’s ironic, I actually want a Burner for when I’m not riding in Surrey. I find a HT does me fine for home rides, tho I’m not into the jumps over Winterfold way.
I rode a new 5-spot briefly on familar trails. Impressed. Great suspension, really efficient on climbs and better angles than the old one. Based on that, if I was after a susser now the Burner would be high on the list.
mattjg – Member
I’d buy the Burner though I suspect you’d maybe be a bit overbiked a lot of the time.
But on the basis I can ride a rigid singlespeed, I’d cope fine with being under biked for a little of the time (the yeti is fitted with a 120mm front end)…
Having owned turner HL xce/rfxs/flux and DW flux I have just bought a second hand turner sultan frame (a complete whim and to use up the shed parts 8)), first ride today and in the afterglow of it being a blast on downs and singletrack and very capable on the ups( The sultan reminds me most of my xce in the day) I would say a Sultan for general trail duties and riding but my Rocky mountain element 29er is better for 24hr and races.
I do like 29ers for being stable/faster and generally more comfortable, I sold the DW flux as I did not like the feel of the suspension nor the bike, set up 120mm at the front.
Learnt a lot on air pressure and the sultan feels more progressive in its travel and with 120 mm Fox Talas is nicely balanced.
It’s not a good time to be buying your last ever MTB I wouldn’t have thought. Nothing against 27.5 or 29 as wheel sizes in theory, but both are new enough that the geometry is likely to evolve a bit more over the next few years I’d have thought. So whatever you buy now you may want to change in a few years, but then I guess that’s always the case.
Oh and if we’re going to have a timeless English landscape, let’s at least make it a Turner 🙂
Good point rover pig. I was just looking at discount 26″ flux frames, thinking the back end would be better than the yeti’s. however, the yeti with medium/ max pro pedal would be firmer for the events…. With the option to be fully bouncy for the downs….
The new Burner is a blast, but it sounds like the Flux (maybe with a 140mm fork to get the BB up) might be a better choice come race day. Besides, it’s 3/4lb lighter.
Simwit, I tried. Uploaded the pic to tiny, generated the url but for some reason, it wouldn’t let me copy that link to paste here. Might be because I’m on a phone rather than a computer.
Fortunately, I’m better at building bikes than I am working computery stuff.