[Closed] Giant Anthem X - freeride capable??

How small? I've done drops up to about 4ft on mine and there's a couple of doubles I occasionally do in my local woods on it but NOT big ones.Like XC scale.

If you're honest with yourself, is it genuinely FR or XC that you're doing?

it would be like trying to make one of these

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into one of these

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and then wondering why the resulting mess is s**t and breaks easily 😀

It can do FR-Mince-Core-Lite, but struggles with AM-XC-Extremeness.

CFH, Love the labeling 🙂

It depends. Do you mean actual freeriding, or the everyday trailriding stuff that some people delude themselves is extreme and dangerous freeriding? If it's the latter, yes, that's what it's made for. If it's the former, you are boned.

@Northwind - yes, just everyday trailriding/singletrack etc the odd jump in the trail now and then. I just wonder if it could cope with all that Glentress has to offer if i happen to go there ?

Yup, no bother, though it's not really the ideal bike for the jump park and wouldn't take too kindly to the big drop etc, or to bad landings off the bigger jumps. But out on the trails it'll be great. It's an XC bike obviously and you have to bear that in mind but good quality XC bikes are capable of miles more than most people expect.

It is a brilliant everyday trail bike - did everything with ease at Dalby on Sunday and I will be taking it to Glentress the next time I go.

Yes, it'd be fine for everything gt can throw at it.

While I can accept and indeed embrace the fact that one type of bike is meant for one thing, and another for another, I generally ride one bike for all off-road duties, I ask my NRS to do everything from long XCs to alpine DHs and playing around in small jump parks (while it's not great at the bigger stuff, it does it without complaining). It's never let me down, and I weigh 17stone. Bikes can take a lot more than you think if you're not a clumsy oaf.

Spokes - I had a quick go on yours at the weekend and it felt like a road bike with knobbly tyres. Ridiculous.

Innit daft? Stupidly, stupidly fast. Definitely the fastest bike I've ever ridden, even compared to my Scale.

I've often pondered wanging a set of 130/140mm forks on it, just for one rag around the peaks. It'd be awesome.

Yeah, until the headtube snapped off and you were impaled to death. Which would definitely happen. Also, my Sov with Racing Ralphs was [i]almost[/i] as fast. Honest.

Well, yes, there's that issue.

The Anthem loves Kemback- the first 2 doubles and the steep chute at the far end of the woods. Nyyyyyyooooowm.

Thanks for the comments guys. Has put my mind at ease. I went to a shop to size it up againt Meta 5.5 pro and have what a lovely bike.
P.S where or what is Kemback?

ThankYouVeryMuch

get a trance x instead?

SpokesCycles - Member
Innit daft? Stupidly, stupidly fast. Definitely the fastest bike I've ever ridden, even compared to my Scale.

OK so I buy one then I'll win races and stuff?

Well, that's what happened to me. So, because one person's experience on the internet is exactly what will happen to everyone else, yes, yes you will.

Kemback's mine and FS09's local woods.