Good to see lots of well informed opinion here again.
As someone who actually owns and rides a TRc (call me mental cos the cost if you will), I’ll give you my impressions.
I basically bought this bike hoping it would be like my original blur, which seemed to perfectly combine the uphill/downhill balance but was murder with bearings and tyre clearance.
The TRc is a good bike … but maybe not quite as good as I’d hoped.
The whole bearing and tyre clearance thing has definitely been sorted. This does seem to be a bike designed for gloop.
If you like a full suspension bike that skips across the ground rather than ploughs down trails (which I must admit I do), it is a cracking ride.
I’ve not had any issues with the low bottom bracket and it has an amazingly stiff swing arm.
The angles make the bike not quite so good going uphill as I was hoping (not as good as my original blur but a marked improvement over my previous LT).
I may be imagining this but I do notice the bike seems to drift left at the rear rather than tracking in a straight line.
Shock setup on it is even more crucial than other VPP bikes. Get it wrong and the ride gets quite scary to be honest. I’ve settled on about 1/3rd of travel for sag to get it handling the way I want.
The final thing I’d say is that the new Kashima Fox RP23 shock is not that good. They seem to have binned the inertial valve in favour of high compression damping in the “locked out” position, which really does affect long road or fireroad climbs. I really preferred the previous RP23 shock I had on my old LT.
Hope this helps.