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I’m thinking about getting a Druid.
Anyone who has one - how’s the sizing? How tall are you and what size do you ride?
I’m 5’10”. Average proportions. S2 or S3?
I'm 6'2 on an s4. Apparently 500mm reach but it feels long. Comfort is much improved with a high bar/stem combo.
I'm 6'0, S3 feels perfect. I have short arms and legs and generally prefer smaller frames.
I'm also running a 160 fork and it feels better to me like that.
I don't own a Druid but I did test both the S3 and S4.
I'm 6' tall and normal proportions.
I found the S3 way to small and the S4 way too big which was a surprise as with a reach on the S4 of 500 it's shorter than all my other bikes.
I didn't get chance to actually measure it but something didn't stack up with the quoted geo.
The rear suspension feel was very good though.
Demo'd a V1 years ago, size large, mullet & 35mm stem, I'm 6' and it felt like I was way over the front, had a brief pedal on another large with a 29 rear wheel that felt better. The extending rear centre takes some getting used to I found.
In certain situations it cornered amazingly and compared to the Ripmo I was riding at the time I could pedal through roots and rough terrain much better.
To add to my post both bikes were v2 with 29 rear.
Mine is a V2 29er. 160mm fork because the 150 felt wrong.
If you're anywhere near Sheffield you can have a spin on it. It'll be too big but you can have a close look at the frame.
“I found the S3 way to small and the S4 way too big which was a surprise as with a reach on the S4 of 500 it's shorter than all my other bikes.”
So I have a bike sizing hypothesis which is that it’s not just reach and stack that determines how big a bike feels but also the chainstay length, or maybe the ratio of rear centre to front centre (at dynamic sag). I think if you make the chainstays longer whilst changing nothing else then the rider shifts their hips backwards when standing making the reach feel longer.
On the Druid the reach and stack and rear centre all increase significantly with size, whilst most bikes hardly change the chainstay length (if at all) and many don’t increase the stack as much either.
Thanks all. Current full sus is reach 460 (Pivot Mach 5.5) and could happily be a bit longer I think. Hardtail is reach 470 (Pipedream Moxie) and feels about right. Doesn’t the reach on a hardtail increase as suspension compresses though so a bit longer might be ok for a full sus?