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[Closed] Slack angled full-sus with a 120mm fork

 Kit
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Your suggestions, pur-lease! Anything slacker than 69 degrees, specifically. Can be 100mm frame etc...

Thinking of likes of Yeti ASR.

Discounted SC Superlight and Giant Trance.

Cheers!

(and pics would be good 🙂 )

EDIT: just seen the 5" slack angled thread, and technically 120mm counts as 5", but needs to take a 120mm 5" fork instead of a 140mm 5" fork, if you get my meaning...


 
Posted : 27/11/2010 1:13 pm
 Kit
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bump for anyone who's not out playing in the snow.


 
Posted : 28/11/2010 12:46 pm
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Yeti ASR-5 seems like the natural choice.

Blur XC starts off at 69.5deg with a 100mm fork, but SC say you can run it with a 120mm fork (like mine). How much does that slacken off the head angle?


 
Posted : 28/11/2010 1:01 pm
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Stoodents.


 
Posted : 28/11/2010 1:08 pm
 ojom
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Asr5. Want to borrow it again?


 
Posted : 28/11/2010 1:12 pm
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yo tbc - how is teh frozen north?


 
Posted : 28/11/2010 1:14 pm
 Kit
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Blur XC Carbon - £2,299
Yeti ASR5 - £1,570
Orange ST4 - £1,480

Oof 🙁


 
Posted : 28/11/2010 1:19 pm
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St4 would be my choice.


 
Posted : 28/11/2010 1:42 pm
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Onion- 10 inch of snow in the back garden here. Amazing. Keeps falling too.


 
Posted : 28/11/2010 1:45 pm
 Kit
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10 inches in the back garden?! Matron!


 
Posted : 28/11/2010 4:14 pm
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I haven't found a worthy rival to the ASR5 ('on paper') and have had another week thinking I should sell it. But nah, riding it is too much fun to take a compromise on something longer travel just to get the geometry.

Maybe the Spesh Stumpjumper - seem to be taking a slackjer approach to things.


 
Posted : 28/11/2010 4:25 pm
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what about Blur 4X?


 
Posted : 28/11/2010 4:26 pm
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what about Blur 4X?

Only suitable for short arses for trail riding, anyone over 5ft10 or so is going to be uncomfortable/out of controll on longer or faster rides.


 
Posted : 28/11/2010 4:34 pm