That NS is basically a Specialized Pitch is it not?
Yep, which is no bad thing as the Pitch was great….it just happened to overlap with Spesh’s far more expensive Enduro….so they killed the cheaper bike naturally.
Good to see NS bringing it back!…toss up between the Snab and the Bird Aeris as my next FS.
Back on topic…most full sussers these days look ugly, what do you expect when the consumer demands ever more suspension travel, ever longer front triangles, ever larger wheels, ever slacker head angles etc etc?!….it must be a complete ball-ache to package that lot without infringing on rival’s patents and with it still riding remotely as intended!
Frankly its a miracle that something like the new Commencal Meta AM-V4 comes along to restore my faith in a designer’s ability….it is indeed a thing of beauty and manages to ape the classic lines of a hardtail my making one complete line from the head tube, down the top tube, along the shock itself, briefly through the seat post, down the seat stays and finally to the rear mech hanger…all while concealing most of the shock in the top tube, simply magical….sorry, what were we talking about again?!