[Closed] 29er fs which would you go for

Transition or the salsa.

Purely cos they look good and aren't overpriced (IMHO) bits of welded & poorly welded (appearance) sheet metal

Horsethief for me soon (hopefully- kind of) as i think i've just found a crack in my Salsa Big Mama just within the 3 year warranty.....

Reviews are good and if it's even better than the Big Mama then it'll be great. Good value too, i found one today from a German site for around £820.

I've just bought a bandit waiting on one part for the build

Selling something jerry, or an addition? 😉

Bandit looks nice but shorter ett?

Horsethief brill value but longer chainstays

What about SC Superlight or alu Tallboy?

Oh the reason I chose it is because its what I expect a full sus to be, slack with long travel if I wanna mince in the woods ill use my hardtail, gotta say it looks well built can't wait to ride it

i'd get the horsethief.

i like the flexy-seatstay design.

What happened to the Ragley one, it looked promising?

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I don't think there is a bad 29er full susser frame on the market and all the above would be a great choice. I made a choice last month and finished up getting a Kona Hei Hei 29er frame and I love it and typically, what ever you go for, you won't see many out there what ever you finish up with!
The Salsa at £820 sounds too good to be true so I would be hovering over that buy button! 😉

Clink an addition .......leaning towards Bandit but need to test ride them first ....

Not really interested in the SC offerings they just don't do it for me

bigdugsbaws - Member

What happened to the Ragley one, it looked promising?

who knows...

on paper, it's exactly what i think i want, but, i've given up waiting*, and am about to buy a camber/rockstar/spearfish/other...

(*i'm not expecting to be able to buy one tomorrow, but a few teasers would be nice)

Ideally I would like my Yelli Screamy in Fsr

leaning towards Bandit but need to test ride them first

There's a Bandit test bike doing the rounds ATM.

It'll be in my neck of the woods next week. 😉

Ringo.
What part are you missing from your build?

Ssstu where is your neck of the woods ?

West Mids.

Any LBS that stock Transition should be able to book it for you though.

Think they have a large and a medium.

That Ragley looks really nice! Reminds me of a beefy Anthem, which isn't a bad thing.

Ah I've emailed Kustom bikes In Somerset so hopefully they'll find one

Rumblefish. Done three rides on mine now and it's the most complete I've ever ridden

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Here is my Andy Stand! 😉

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Rear brake stu, got two elixirs and both hoses are too short 🙁

The sizings a bit odd on the transition, I'm normally medium but gone large on this

Ah I've emailed Kustom bikes In Somerset so hopefully they'll find one

Let me know - I'm sure I can find some other interested parties!

Rear brake stu, got two elixirs and both hoses are too short

You must be able to bodge something up. Dodgy hose routing until you can get it sorted maybe?

Any pictures of it?

will get some pics up tomorrow, spec is
reverb, flows on evo hubs , the revs you pointed me too 1x9 with bash ,never thought about dodgy cabling ill try it when I get home,gotta say it looks really good and purposeful i went with the silver colpur as I didn't want any unnecessary attention 😀

New hose will be here tomorrow so just gotta bleed that and the reverb

i'm waiting on the Bandit test ride....it is imminent apparently. Can't wait...I actually can't, just as well the Tallboy LT has been released.

took some pics of my new bandit today had an hours blast as it was pissing down
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need to do some playing with forks etc, but first impressions are its brilliant

Bandit! Rode a demo and it's ace. Pedals in Edinburgh have one in m if you're near.

Nice Ringo ....did you buy full build or frame only ....are those 140 forks ?

i thought i liked the look of the bandit unit i saw that one above, would still like to try one though and a santacruz superlight 29er

I do prefer the green myself

I like the look of the Rocky Mountain Element 950 29. I think the middle range model comes with a Revelation fork that can adjust up to 120mm. Good review in Bike magazine this month.

I agree with many of the comments above that there are many quality bikes in this category at the moment - actually I can't think of one that I would exclude due to quality or expected performance issues.
I think you need to decide what you want from the bike.
Some of them out there are more suited to the extreme gnar like the transition or Niner WFO whilst others will be better suited for long epics like the tallboy or superlight.
I ride a Niner RIP9 which I love and would buy again as it suits the techy rocky trails that south Wales offers and also does long all day mountain epics which is what I mainly do.
I think you need to tell us what kind of riding you intend to mainly do to get better recommendations.