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Thinking of buying one of these frames. What's everyone's opinions on it?
I've bought an AM2 29, whole bike. Not got it yet though, but did see one at an event yesterday, looks bloody lovely, the owner said it's brilliant (which obviously we all do with new bikes of course), but things like the cable routing (internal) was lovely and even the dropper post has internal routing which i thought was a very nice touch.
That's a couple of nice upgrades on there.
Cheers. It's the 26 I'm looking at.
Had mine 18 months and love it
Much better than my old Meta 5
Bit portly (just over 31lb with XT/XTR, Hope V2's hope/Flow wheels and Hans Damfs) but climbs well
Use in Peaks, S Derby, trail centres all over UK, has also done Antur twice and bike park wales
Cable routing is a pita through (looks nice but rattles internally)
If you slide catapult cord over the otters when installing them into the frame you will get rid of the rattling.
I have the SX, it's a fantastic bike, it climbs fairly well, just as good as any other AM bike I've owned, coming down it just flies, loves to carve the berms and will pretty much handle any trail you can throw at it
Cheers guys
Happy with my AM 29'er. As stated not the lightest build but it does climb well if you're seated or have pro pedal and lockout on.
Much more bike than I need for the way down but I'm getting better. Mine was recommended by a friend who has the 26" version and is a much better rider so that sold it for me.