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I've had a Scandal 29er & Lurcher 29er . Both SS & the most fun bikes ever to ride !
Got to disagree with thisisnotaspoon , I think the Lurcher is a fantastic looking bike , built up as a rigid single speed anyway , the Scandal , well I love it , but my God , that us ugly !!
Love my 45650b. Got a raw, stuck 150 revelation forks on it and some flow ex's and its a joy to thrash.
I've got a 456C, unfortunately It doesn't get used as much as it should as I have a full suss as well and prefer that for the local trails, coming from a steel hard tail (P7) I thought I would feel stiffer but I have been pleasantly surprised so far,
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Pink 456.
Heavy, poor paint finish/cosmetics, cheap, looks well proportioned but above all else a hoot to ride and tough as flash fried brisket.
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Anyone got any experiences of the 456c evo?
Loved my 456, wish I still had it.
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Got a 456c Evo. Great fun. Extremely stiff. Built with Pikes and Flow Ex on Pro II Evo, SLX brakes and Zee 1x10 drivetrain. It's 26lbs and bullet proof!
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I'm on my third 26 SS standard Inbred, with what is to my mind the best build it's ever had.
26lbs which could be 23 without the DH spec bits.
It's just "my" bike. It sinks like a stone if you like "getting air" but you'll never break one.
Every time I go in the Edinburgh Planet x, I stroke my credit card, look at the silver 456 Evo, and go Naaaaah, I'm ok.
Really liked my Inbred & despite people saying they're heavy, it weighed exactly the same as an 853 frame that replaced it. Not a big deal for me, but, for £250 or so difference in price I did hope for a bit of weight saving.
Just had a go on my old mans brand new 45650b.
Handles better than his mk2 nomad, I reckon he's going to end up not riding that or buying a new full susser. Low, slack, good standover in the 16 inch model. Feels longer than it actually is in the top tube, at 182cm it felt a pretty good fit for me! It felt almost exactly the same as my Medium Nukeproof Mega, except that the tail was hard! I guess it does have a 60mm stem compared to my old 45 mm stem, I was thinking it would be awful going back to a longer stem but it's actually pretty good.
27.5's definitely roll over square edge hits a little better and you definitely feel more sat in the bike - it feels like a mini motocross bike. It's a bike that is going to respond wonderfully to being muscled around and cuttied with one leg out round corners.
There's no vertical compliance that I can feel other than the tyre, it's stiff as hell. Funnily enough it feels like it has some lateral compliance though when manual/wheeling out of turns. Could be the tyre rolling though but I never felt that in his inbred, his Nomad or any of my previous bikes. Only in his Ibis Mojo that he had years ago. It gives the bike a wonderful amount of contact patch feeling and confidence in the bikes grip.
The finish isn't that great though, it's a raw and it came with a couple of pretty big marks in the top tube. The wheel tension is ****ing shite (luckily we can both build wheels) and the brakes need a bleed.
Sweet to hear Tom
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My 26er Scandal is perfect for me. It needs a dropper, I've bought a Tmars for it but it weighs about as much as the frame so I can't bring myself to fit it.
scandal 29er 21" below, I will never sell it, first rode it rigid but now 120mm x-fusion trace forks make it a blast at trail centres with big tyres but still an xc weapon with light tyres. Its a cracker to ride but 26er hardtails will always be more fun - I'm selling an 853 steel 26er if interested, geared, better than an inbred and under 2.4kg 20" frame.
...sorry about the ridiculous collection of ancillaries and mud, MTBO tomorrow and it will be muddy + i need snacks
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I started with a 456 then got a slot dropout Inbred which I ran SS rigid and which was the only properly light bike I've ever had, then a C456 and a 29in limited edition SS Inbred. Now only have the C456 and I think that's soon to go. All great bikes and I miss them all. Looking forward to a carbon Parkwood with slightly shorter chainstays that I can run SS. Come on On-One, you know you want to!
Had a Scandal which I sold to a mate and am plotting to liberate as he has lost interest in MTB and also a 456. This only lasted a year before I got fed up of its rather unsubtle charms and put the bits on another frame. However 2 years on the frame is still hung in the garage waiting for me to decide whether to sell or not. Every time there is an excess of bits eg just gone 29 so 26 wheels etc hanging around, I think about building it up again but can't quite summon the commitment but can't sell it either. Perhaps this is the year it appears as a winter hack.
Have a 29er Rigid Inbred, ridden numerous 456s.
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Big fan of the 456 here - been out for a great ride on my old That Blue this morning. They really are great bikes - value aside.
I'm sorely tempted by an Evo II and was wondering if anyone who's got one knows if there's cable routing / guides for the dropper, now they've made the seatpost diameter larger? Can't quite make out from the pics if there are two open guides and the two closed ones for the gear cables?