[Closed] 29er hardtail: short travel & slack

"here's a bag of money, adapt it a bit for sag, make it 2 degrees slacker and make sure a 3 inch b+ tyre fits in it".

When I looked into it it was far cheaper to get custom ti in China than custom steel in the UK. Would probably be about 750 though there are a few UK lot who'll charge you twice that for the pleasure.

Just spotted the new Genesis High Latitude, pretty much spot on geometry for a 29er HT IMO...
http://www.genesisbikes.co.uk/bikes/mountain/trail/high-latitude

But not listed frame only on their site ATM.

Northwind - Member

Add into this some high prices and it makes me kind of want to just send a custom titanium place a copy of my trailfox's geometry, and say "here's a bag of money, adapt it a bit for sag, make it 2 degrees slacker and make sure a 3 inch b+ tyre fits in it". The last is pure luxury but the rest, well, the bike I want doesn't really seem to exist.

I'd have thought the Last wasn't far off that - reach is 10mm shorter, but with HT sag you'd gain a bit. HA is 3* slacker, not 2, but seat angle, chainstays all in the right ballpark, and it take a 3" tyre.

It's the offset wheel 🙁 Everything else looks pretty damn fine but I want to hop bits back and forth between bikes.

That Genesis looks good. No wheelbase numbers? It's not slack but it seems to have a normal headset so should be angleable

True. A 142 and ditching the singlespeed would have suited better.

I think they mostly decided to go with the dropout/axle from their dirt jump bike for cost reasons, and if the bike sells, they may update it, maybe to boost.

I'm not a wheel swapper, so was happy to nab a cheap frame for what was supposed to be a cheap build, but has turned into five months of component shopping for a frame I don't have yet.

Had the first ride on the Scout today.
1st impressions are I'm REALLY unfit and Hd's are woefully bad.

honourablegeorge - Member

has turned into five months of component shopping for a frame I don't have yet.

TBH that sounds like my perfect frame 😆 It's rubbish once you finish a bike, all you've got is a bike. But you, sir, have a [i]project[/i]. Hopefully you also have another bike though.

Not feeling much love for the Genesis, seems fairly modern day average to me.

Accepting you'll have to fit an angleset from day one just seems wrong.

I guess looking at running 140 forks means it's not really short travel

Northwind - Member

TBH that sounds like my perfect frame It's rubbish once you finish a bike, all you've got is a bike. But you, sir, have a project. Hopefully you also have another bike though.

Yeah, still have the full suss, and the DH bike... sold my Soul though, gutted.

seems fairly modern day average to me.

Really? It's longer than pretty much anything but a Mondraker or Geometron.

Do you think you might have developed slightly unrealistic expectations?

Genesis sizing is great. That looks promising.

Love my parkwood but it's not that long and was really keen on a bigwig but it's same size toptube/reach as parkwood I think. For the money though the parkwood is ace

chakaping - Do you think you might have developed slightly unrealistic expectations?

Partly that and partly I've read it all wrong. The medium reach would suit me with a 30mm stem and give me a smidgen more adjustment on the seat post.

I'd have maybe liked to see a slightly steeper seat and slightly slacker head angle as I'm on 74.5 / 67 already but I'm a picky bugger

Im reading this thread as im looking for an

LLS
Aluminium
29er
120/130 mm
HT

The Whyte seems to get few shouts but comes with a 70/80mm stem which does not seem to fit with the LLS theme, am i missing something ?