oikeith
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<p style="text-align: right;">OP do you mean Spectral 125? I cant see a Strive 125?</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">The Strive 125 has caught my eye recently, I picked up a Nukeproof Scout to complement my big travel, long and slack enduro bike but it doesn’t really do it for me, thinking of replacing it with the Spectral 125, short travel, nice geometry (slack) should be more lively then my Scout in the places I wanna ride it.</p>
I bought a spectral cf7 125 a few months ago, absolutely love it.
Changed bars and stem and stuck my DT1 1501s on to save a bit of weight, makes an already light bike even lighter.
The rest of the kit on it is faultless so far, I wouldn't need to spend any more money on a better model.
Pedals and climbs fantastic and the slacker geometry it shares with the bigger bikes makes it really confident and helps when you run out of travel.
Keep an eye on the sale, their currently £2419 but I picked mine up for £2219 with 6 months 0%.
For my money I’d go Santa Cruz tallboy or Specialized epic evo - some mega deals to be had at the moment.
Revel Ranger looks gorgeous and is a great xc / trail allrounder but I couldn't get past those 18 fiddly linkage bearings either.
revel Ranger could be what you’re looking for.
18 bearings in the suspension linkage IIRC!
and for @devash above. It is a LOT of bearings, but mine were all still fine after nearly two years of riding. Okay I didn't ride it to much in the wet (rear tyre clearance isn't great for a 2.4 and mud) and I made a mudguard to protect the main/lower bearings.
Also when I did check them, they are easy to change, none of that Yeti angled nonsense they used to do.
I could see why it'd put people off. They do ride superbly tho.
The 5010s look great value, but the mullet thing would really put me off.
Top of the tree is a 290 reactor. I know its not niche but its great spec and colour.
I'm not a fast Climber anyway so the fact its not huge rapid up hill isnt a concern
