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Trek Scratch?
those blades are well priced.
i do like the look of those solid-blades, but are they heavy/strong enough?
at 6.5lbs i have my doubts.
"xc whippet climbing" ... ?
As mentioned before, can't go wrong with an sx trail. Whack the pro pedal on and it climbs well for a bike of it's size. Lapierre froggy looks pimp as, but haven't ridden one though.
Would a rear maxle not be a must?
Not sure I want a QR 160-180mm bike.
Had a QR DH bike for years, it was fine.
Fair enough, would you buy one now? (no cost saving)
theres a guy selling a blade on descent world, thats how come I knew about them...
http://www.descent-world.co.uk/forum/index.php/topic,284.0.html
no idea what they are like myself... think he is selling a S/M which looks very small... but he might know what they are like to ride...
looks to me like he has it setup for sosme serious riding...
they look like FSR...
depending on budget I would probably go for a trek scratch air... proven technology and they look as sorted as the rest of the range...
I've got an SX Trail. Its great downhill but you'd get bored/pissed off pedalling it around the place. It started off 32lbs but the tyres were compromising the purpose of the bike, its maybe 36-36lbs with bigger tyres and tubes. It will winch up anything. I wanted it to be my only full susser but I will be getting a trail bike as well, I love the SX too much to get rid of it but it just won't pedal all day the way a 28lb bike with lighter tyres will.
For a mini DH bike, yeah no probs with QR, You can always run a 10mm thru axle (same dropouts) if it bothers you.
On some bikes rear maxles unscrew themselves (ask anyone with a cove!).
For a full on DH bike, no. But then no proper DH bikes are QR these days anyhow (well ok, I know my intense and any other intense could run as such, but there's no point when it takes an axle too).