Zealous Division MkII. Lovely bike.

Nuke Proof scout 29 (wot I have)
Last Fast Forward (wot I would’nt wait for)
Canfield Yelli Screamy (wot I had)
2 Souls Quaterhorse (wot I thought was too short)

Both more than 500 squids. 😉
I’ll post up some pics of some of mine though if we’re throwing the £500 out the window. 😆
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George.
When does your Fast Forward arrive?
I’m dying to find out what you think of it when it comes.

Friend of mine has just bought a ros9- I had a brief go when he had one on demo and thought it was a lot of fun. Certainly more on the ‘steamroller’ end of the scale, but not cumbersome. Iirc that was at the longer end with 140mm pikes.

I suggested the same to him, but as a slightly leftfield choice, how about the new plus stache? I rode it in the normal plus format and found it hilarious but I think if you put a long fork and normal 29er tyres on it you get geometry pretty similar to the ros9 and incredibly short chainstays. Then you’ve got a play bike and an everything else bike in the same frame

Swanny853, I’ve done exactly that, the forks are now at 140mm, love it.
Why can’t I get the picture to work?

Cor. Do like that stache idea

@ Jabbi – interesting. I was going to sell my Pikes, but you reckon Stache is good to go with them set at 140? Just to pain to get a boost 29er rear sorted.

@ Clink, I only changed the forks to 140mm yesterday so haven’t ridden it yet, I’ve only got two tokens and at 120 they blow through the travel too easily, I had a 140 air shaft so thought I’d give it a go. If it stops chucking it down later I’ll go out for a play and report back.

Swanny, no I haven’t, there is no way a 29 plus tyre is going in a Pike, I wanted to stick to a 100mm axle so I can swap to the rigid forks occasionally and I already had a Pike (although I’ve just got a new pair under warranty, the damper exploded). Wasn’t a fan of the Chupacabras, they don’t do mud, but may revisit plus at some point, possibly the 27.5 variety, it’s a versatile frame!

I can’t see the point, when you are hitting big rock gardens hard enough to get through 140+ of travel then the rear is going to take huge impacts cue puncture / rim destroyed.

For me on a 29er hardtail the perfect travel is between 100 and 120mm depending on use.

Procore was made for hardtails 😀

Jabbi, did you build yours from the frame then? I can very much recommend getting a go on one with the manitous, I haven’t grinned like an idiot that much on a bike in a long time!