Chaps,

Quite fancy building up a slack 4″ frame ….

Struggling to come up with any viable alternatives though…

Ideally, looking for a trail bike as opposed to a 4x frame (old Meta 4 was an amazing bit of kit, but not for climbing!!)…

Depending on the frame, offset bushes or an angleset will help with geo.

Current shortlist:

Trance X
Meta 4

I’d rather go nearer 4 than 3″…..

Other options?

SC Nickel.

New short travel cotic rocket 😉

I was looking for the same thing. Closest I got was a kona kikapu. 4 inches of travel and a 68.5 head angle.

Other option is an old giant trance 06/07 with offset bushings/works headset.

GT Distortion (starting to feel like a GT rep now)? 4 inches and 66.5 degrees

SC Blur xc Carbon – 68.5 headangle with some 120mm forks – not as xc biased as some might think!

A reoccuring idea (day dream) of mine, as my SL is a tad too steep to really fun downhill.. Still not decided on anything, but am just wondering a Prophet SL (or just convert mine for winter)

http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/suggestions-for-short-travel-fs-please

http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/what-commercially-available-one-bike-does-it-all-120mm-fs-bike

http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/need-work-distraction-advice-for-light-120mm-trail-bike

http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/slackish-120-130mm-trail-bike

http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/one-of-those-please-recommend-me-a-bike-threads

Intense Tazer VP is 3.25″-4″ adjustable with a 68 degree HA. It is proper small though!

Pivot M4X?

Look no further:

REAR TRAVEL: 80mm (3″) or 100mm (4″) Rear Wheel Travel
REAR SHOCK: 6.5″ x 1.5″ (Forward Pin 22.2mm x 8mm, Rear Pin 22.2mm x 8mm)
FRAME MATERIAL: 6061 Heat Treated Aluminum
SIZES: Regular, Long
COLORS: Orange, Black, Raw
FRAME WEIGHT: 7.9 lbs / 3.6 kg (Medium Frame With Rear Shock)
COMPLETE WEIGHT: 31.3 lbs / 14.2 kg (Medium Bike)
WARRANTY: 2 year defect warranty, Lifetime crash replacement
SEATPOST/CLAMP: 31.6mm Seatpost/34.9mm Clamp
HEADTUBE: Tapered 1.5″ / 1-1/8″ (1.5″ Lower Cup 49.6mm ID / 1-1/8″ Upper Cup 44mm ID)
BOTTOM BRACKET: 73mm shell x 51mm chainline
REAR DROPOUT: 142mm x 12mm (Shimano e-thru) + 135mm x 10mm option
FRONT DERAILLEUR: Not Compabible
CHAINGUIDE: ISCG 05

I think one of the Dirt lads uses one for general trail riding – i suppose it depends on how tall you are.

Look out for an old Kona Howler. They did them in red for 2006 and then green and white for 2007. I had one and swapped the 200mm eye to eye shock for a 190mm coil and it slackened it and lowered it beautifully. The seat angle is pretty steep anyway, so climbing didn’t suffer. Can’t take a front mech though so it’s 9 or 10 speed only. Superb fun bike that I should never have sold really.

Trail Centre Razzer by Rick T., on Flickr