I’d stick with the 32 personally unless you’re pedalling down a lot of fireroads.
Fair enough, got a couple of events planned this year where there will be a few fireroads, but then for Mayhem will probably put a 30T on I expect. We’ll see anyway.
Must be good to have got you off the Sync too!
The Sync was awesome. I’d always planned to do a few more XC events this year though, and decided I’d probably be better with a proper XC race bike and another full sus as my general trail bike (on its way soon). We’ll see how it goes, I expect this KTM to be a bit more of a tool for a job than the Sync was, but then again my KTM road bike is awesome so this bike has promise!
Nice! There’s a KTM motorbike dealer down the road from me; Gear4Racing and I think they now stock quite a few KTM bicycles; they even posted a fat bike on their FB feed a week or so ago.
Yeah they sell them as well. We just had a fat bike arrive too… 8)
I keep meaning to have a look in the shop but I have liked every bike I had seen so far and am not really looking for anything new, so I will have massive amounts of ‘want’ if I go and have a peek.
LOL. You sound like a few of my customers! Scared to step in the shop as they’re too scared they won’t be able to keep their wallets in their pockets! 😉
In seriousness though, KTM has gone from not selling bikes in the UK, to selling a few average looking bikes, to selling an entire range of very good looking bikes with great specs and very keen prices in probably less than 4 years! Very reminiscent of Cube when they first hit the UK.
Absolutely lovely. Would be my geared bike of choice too. Would a carbon seatpost be more comfortable? Or is it giant’s 31.6 diameter so any post will be very stiff?
27.2 post in there, so it should be ok. I’m still less than excited about carbon seatposts on MTB’s myself, all are either very expensive or have a poor clamp design that I’d likely break (I’m not light on kit, I always err on overbuilding rather than too light, and I’ve killed a few seatposts in the past). I know where I am with a Thomson at least.