[Closed] oh, what to buy?

The Yeti ASR5 has now gone to a new home, and the Titanium On One Inbred is up on pinkbike (having ridden it just once). It's far too cold & wet to ride bikes, so I'm keeping myself busy again building and then selling them.

The yardstick bike for me at the moment is the Canyon Spectral AL. It seems to tick every single box I can imagine. full sus - check, 650b - check, reverb - check, awesome value for money - double check.

The problem is that i can't have until March.

So.... what else?

I've just made a cheeky bid for a Ibis Mojo SLR frame with 2Pure. It is one of their clearance 2012 frames and in size XL it should match my large ASR5 quite well. Unfortunately, those nice chaps at 2Pure haven't aren't Turkish and therefore don't go in for the whole bartering thing. They seem to want to price they are asking.

I do love my boutique bikes (I have a Turner Flux before the Yeti), so the Mojo is an itch that needs scratching... at some stage.

Here lies the problem.... I don't really want to go much above £2k.

I could just about squeak under the wire with the Mojo if they dropped a hundred or so quid off their price. Built up with RS Revs, 1x10 with Zee and wide/narrow, Reverb and some Pro II/Arch EX's.

I quite fancy a Santa Cruz, but it would need to be ex demo or secondhand. I don't know much about them, so not sure which one to go for.

I also spotted that Bromley Bike Co are trying to get out of their Liteville frames via ebay... they look a bland, but I suspect they are quite good.

I want to bike to do everything from XC to Trail centre to possibly light alpine jaunts... hence the Spectral AL being the no-brainer.

So mighty combined oracle of STW... what should i be looking at?

(p.s. I'm not going to buy a Trek, Giant, Specialized or anything else that is fantastically well developed, perfectly functional, but common as a common thing)