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Seen one for a good price locally. I have done the research and people seem to speak highly of them as a trail bike - I'm looking for a replacement for my steel hardtail (genesis longitude 2016 with sus forks) - mainly to be used for overnight bikepacking trips on mixed trails/gravel and maybe some multi-day Bikepacking trips in Spain. A range of stuff really. Only thing which puts me off is no braze-ons on the bottom of the downtube for a water - but could probably use tape/zip ties etc. Any caveats?
Nope I love mine ! Being newer version it’s fully internal routing(very easy set up) and looks and rides sweet 🙂
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Looks great! Have you loaded it up with gear by any chance?
Does it have decent wheels? The rumpus wheelset that came stock on mine was a portly offering, would not have fancied big touring days on that at all. Have some i35s (I think) now and they make a big difference.
I'm still riding one of Sonder's prototype frames and very fond of it. I haven't used the stock wheels, but they do have a reputation for being quite heavy, as above. But mostly they're just really capable, no-nonsense bikes and great value as well. The plus-sized tyres run really well over medium-sized sort of trail debris, loads of grip on anything short of full-on deep chocolate mud. Never used mine for bike-packing, but given appropriate luggage, I don't see why it wouldn't work.
Never ran mine loaded I bought it as a fun trail hardtail and fits the bill perfectly. I only bought frame as I was transferring blingy bits from another bike.
Not sure if the sonder is intended as a bike packing/load lugger ? Guess you could with almost any bike. Do so sonder not do more specific bikes for load lugging ?
I got a mk1 frame from Sonder super cheap due to imperfect paint (wasn't bothered by that as I'd a planned to try a custom job on it anyway). Built it up as a 27+ do it all hardtail. It's an amazingly capable bike and following the Sonder owners FB group, a pretty versatile one too - plenty on there with tourer/bikepacker builds. If you get a good deal on one, I don't think you'll regret it whatever you use it for.
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Just get a Frontier.
Love my Transmitter but it's first job is to be a great trail HT.
It is fine for xc and bike packing but if that were to be it's only roll, I'd get the Fronteir.
Ran one for a year or so, then swapped to Steel...