[Closed] Ex-Blur4X owners, what is the modern day equivalent?

Apologies but did you not like the 4x and so sold it......????

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"The M4X was designed to be the ultimate slalom-4X-short travel dirt jump bike, but it has turned out to be so much more.
Sure, it rails berms like nothing else on the planet, and the characteristics that make it flow through corners, remain composed in the air and take massive landings, also make it an incredibly fun trail bike. It’s exhilarating to be shredding a technical trail on an M4X with its razor sharp, accurate handling and heroic “flickability” that just can’t be matched elsewhere. Pro rider Jeff Herbertson states it perfectly when he says, “You can see a corner approaching, then you enter the corner, then suddenly you’ve exited the corner and your speed has somehow doubled.”

If you can live with the er, ugliness.

Never had a Blur 4X, but if that Pivot is in the frame then looking at the numbers this ought to be on the list too?

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Vondally 'modern day equivalent' is that question.

I owned two for long enough at time.

29er or 27.5.....????

29er
Banshee
Transition smuggler
Rocky instinct
Rocky element with 120 fork

Personally I never got on with the 4x, currently riding Yeti sb95 with 150 mm fork best bike I have owned apart from bearings, do not be fooled by super slack angles, the RM element with 120 mm is supremely capable

[url= http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/29ers-anything-similiar-to-a-blur-4x ]bit old but what 29 er like a 4x including posts by hora[/url]

I remember when I spannered myself on a steep roll in. On my return I went back to it and rode it, no drama on a 4x.

See my response on the 5010 thread: 4x -> Blur Tr -> 5010 (kind of)

The Blur 4X lives in some conceptual netherworld at the end of the Blur family tree, sort of like a Platypus, except with sharp teeth and the ability to both swim and fly real fast.

Ferrentino in Bike magazine. I still have mine and still enjoy riding it, but if I were going to replace it, I'd be very tempted by a 5010. I guess it depends a little on what you mean by 'modern equivalent'. I'm guessing 650b, slack-ish, shortish travel, chuckable, but burly beyond its obvious needs and more capable than you'd expect from the numbers?

Possibly one of the Kona Process bikes?

They're just so fun and characterful.

I can't be sure though, as I never rode a Blur 4x.

hora - Member
Must have all the same characteristics etc

Anyway STW just suggest what your next second hand bargain will be 😉

Not having ridden the 4x but a few SC's etc. I guess you are looking for shorter travel and playful etc. Heaps of 120/130mm bikes out there like the 5010, RM Thunderbolt, there was a focus etc. so loads!!

Banshee spitfire, it's what I replaced mine with anyway

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DMR Bolt?

A TRc is nothing like a 4x. I had both. Doubt a 5010 is anything like it either.

Wish I kept mine but its hunger for bearing and axle kits was ridiculous.

Stuart when you get closest to it, let me know.