Damn, I’m missing a trick here – I’ve been designing bikes to ride like bikes when people actually want them to ride like bulldozers
Thats the best thing anyones written on this thread. So many people determining ride assumptions based on one parameter, christ.
I had the same view, coming off a 66deg bike. OMG the HA was what I kept thinking! OMG the loooong chain stays was what I kept thinking. I was in the process of ordering one so wanted to see for myself Borrowed Dippers, rode it loads solidly for 3 weeks, as an all round, do it all trail bike it rocks a hard one. Its bloody great.
iI manualled really well (a huge surprise) is stable, steers pretty fast but not silly (50mm stem, 750mm wide bars important here), is very stiff, comfortable, nice long TT for room to breath. pedalled well. Just great really. I really would say close to the ‘one bike’ for all.
The trouble is, so much media hype, so many people harping on about slacker and slacker, its just one number among many.
A great quote by someone on here about Enduro bikes and how you define one, I think he said something like, loads more travel than you need, loads slacker than you need is your perfect Enduro bike…
I rode Cwm Carn DH on my 120mm/100mm XC race bike the other day rather than finish on the XC loop, 26″ wheels, lefty fork, 70deg HA. It was great fun, jumps, drops and all, can’t say it felt dangerous either. Probably not quite as fast as if I was on the 66deg slugger AM bike, but much easier when I pedalled up again.
Enjoy it TLR.