Hey,
Looking for a lightweight fun flickable trail shredder basically, and was wondering if anyone has any experience/thoughts on the above?
Test rode a mojo slr the other day and liked it bar the steep headangle, thinking it could be sweet with a angleset in there.
Also v interested in a trc but not been able to find one to demo offroad here in Perth Aus, wondered if anyone had ridden both?
It was my first time on a dw link bike and found it pedalled great but felt pretty firm (didn't have the chance to play around with the settings in much though). Worked great when pumping the trail and did move when you hit stuff so did quite like it, plus it has a bit more travel than a trc.
Cheers
Why not a mojo hd 140? My wife tried a trc and found it very laid back, so she ended up with an ltc running 150 and loves it.
yes HD 140 was my initial thought but i think they're about half a kilo heavier, and seems a shame to carry the extra around when not planning to run it as a 160mm bike.
ltc's are v nice too but again heavier which is why I was drawn to the slr/trc's
cheers for the suggestion though 🙂
any other thoughts out there??
I had a 20 min test ride on a TRC at the Dalby demo last week. I thought it would be the bike I'd really like with its light weight & decent top tube length but I really didn't like it.
The front was too slack for me & with the short stem fitted it felt like all my weight was on the back & nothing going into the fork.
Hmm i think I've got to try and find a trc to try offroad somehow.
I'd be really interested to hear if anyone has put an angleset in a mojo slr, seems like an obvious step to me as they're pretty steep by modern standards and Ibis even talk that option up on their webby.
My other thought was a tallboy c with 120mm forks and an angleset, much like ben cathro did here:
loved the tallboy when i tried one a while back but again was too steep and felt like it was about to tuck under during hard cornering and felt a bit scary on steep techy stuff. Anyone tried this??
thanks
Blur TRc owner and not ridden a Mojo to help you compare, but for trail shredding it is exceptional. Slack and light the only two areas of concerns are the low BB caused by the VPP design and the slack front end which can be a pain on really steep climbs.
Came to the TRc from an ASR-5 which in itself was an exceptional trail bike and I have no complaints.
stewartc,
thanks for the reply - what travel forks are you running on it?
and do you ever find yourself wishing for more travel on the trc?
I'm coming off 150/160mm bikes and wonder whether i'll miss the skwish 🙂
Cheers
Beb -
TBE in Belmont did have one on show - not sure if they still do as I havent been in perth for a couple of months.
If you do get one both TBE in Perth or TBSM over east (mail order) are both pretty good on price.
I briefly considered a TRC but went for the Nomad C instead as I want something to ride DH on in the uk so I don't have to take my V10C back as well.
Out of interest what / where do you ride round perth, been out here 18 months anxd not really got much riding in other than some DH races down Welli Mills / Dwelly way on. Goat farm worth a look?
cool thanks for that - will give TBE a call to see if they still have one to look at.
I do my trail riding mainly around the Kalamunda circuit and some of the other older trails in that area, and for more techy stuff the dh trails at mundaring weir are well worth a look, much more like uk dh'y type trails, and less gravel and more roots etc 🙂
Goat farm is ok but very pea gravelly and gets hellishly hot in from now on as no shade really.
I'm dead keen to ride down at Margaret River as the trails there are supposed to be great fun and made of decent grippy dirt. Apparently the shop in MR is friendly and has shop rides so prob best point of call.
Hope that helps!
I've had 4 rides on my new TRc and I'm loving it so far, headangle about 67.5 with a 140 fork and zero stack lower cup which is perfect for me, low BB makes it feel ridiculously stable - this is extremely noticeable and imo makes it feel like it's slacker / has a stiffer fork as it's like a hot knife through butter in rock gardens even compared to my previous bike which was a Covert built pretty burly.
I would try to be 100% on just how much of an effect the angleset would have on the slr because I've read (on mtbr) they're very different unmodified.
oh right didnt know you could run a zero stack lower on a trc, interesting - means a 140 mm fork is a goer without it being too slack. Take it you need to run a straight steerer (i.e. not tapered) to do that?
I have a Mojo Special Blend. I appreciate that it is cheaper and nastier than the SLR but perhaps some of this is still relevant. Leaving aside the awful components on it, I do find the frame squirms really badly. It's a great bike going uphill but as soon as it gets rocky downhill it's really no fun.
I test drove the Mojo HD and liked it a lot, I bought the SB on the basis of that test ride, but of course they are two slightly different rides and the HD build was about £5k apparently so no wonder it was better.
Back end squirm, very noticable.
Beb - Yes, I now starting to look at the new generation of 150/160mm travel bikes that can go up as well as down and may go in that direction next year. For the moment though, the 140mm Talas on my TRc is fine, in fact for a lot of the XC trails out here I put it down to 110mm, for technical trails 140mm should be fine in everything except long sections of rock gardens.
oh right didnt know you could run a zero stack lower on a trc, interesting - means a 140 mm fork is a goer without it being too slack. Take it you need to run a straight steerer (i.e. not tapered) to do that?
I don't think so as mine came with a reducer for my straight steerer, Cane Creek 40 series ZS49 🙂
cool thanks for all the input guys, food for thought. Defo going to see if i can get a shot on a TRc and see if i can get some input on slackerised SL-R's from mtbr as prob going to be difficult/impossible to have a try of one.
cheers
beb
I'd also consider a Transition Bandit - that would tick the boxes as a fun trail bike.