Giant and Trek have a good track record of making bigger framed bikes. Worth a look there.

I’m not that light and run air shocks with no problem at all.

Magura Thors’ on a HT should sort you out.

My mate, 2inches taller than you on his Orange5

He also has a 224 for downhill days 😆

I’m 6’6″, around 17 stone and have recently purchased a Bottlerocket. I’ve done a fair amount of riding on it so far and I’ve noticed the shorter top tube length, but not overly so – my other bike is an XL Chameleon.

I wouldn’t want to do an all day ride, with masses of ups on the Bottlerocket – but from what you describe above, it doesn’t sound as though that’s your plan either.

Surf Sales, the distributor for Transition in this country were fantastically helpful in organising a demo Bottlerocket for me, I ended up having it for about a week – do give them a call if you’re considering one. During my demo, I took it to the Surrey Hills for an all day session, a couple of sessions at Woburn and on a couple of my normal routes around home – hope that gives you some idea at least of the terrain I’ve based the above opinion on.

i’m 6’4″ and have

a 20″ five for general riding (ditched the rp23 for a fox van coil)

an 18″ patriot for mucking about on

and a 19″ p7 with 130 forks

notice a theme? basically i’ve thrashed all these bikes and they’re still going.

100 kg on a fuel ex. Doesn’t seem a problem for me. I’m no where near max pressure in forks or shock

I think that loads of MTB products are designed in the US where lots of consumers are over 100 Kg so I wouldn’t worry about it

What talisawa2 said. 6’4″, 19st, el capitan is amazing. rear is plush. Wonderful. Never really been happy with the forks though. Interested to see what you go for, as I have not yet been able to set up the Reba’s to my liking. I have found fox brilliant. Got a new set of 180 talas 36ers on my small bike, and they are sooooo good. And so bloody easy to set up.

I’m 6’4″ and 100kg. Have just bought a Santa Cruz Superlight with rp23 and Fox 32 Floats…. no problems at all. Feels more than burly enough for me.

I wish bigger than 20 inch frames were more available as 400mm posts are not long enough for me in one

Edric. It is sadly the case that many manafacturers just don’t make a full range of sizes. In cluding lpads of the Uk based frame brands. This is a area where Specialized and Trek are doing a better job