Its taken till my early 40’s but I have finally plucked up the courage to go N+1, its a nice little hard-tail to compliment my FS Mach6, please feel free to critique but that isn’t my path (and the dropper is now down another 1.5 inches).

Weird how quickly 26″ wheels look small.

Looks like a whole heap of fun though!

Weird how quickly 26″ wheels look small.

Especially given they’re 650b!

Looks awesome! How are you finding the 11 speed XT? just received mine and looking forward to trying it out.

Stanton definitely seem on the ball with their colour choices, very nice, enjoy

Especially given they’re 650b!

Funny how 650b doesn’t look any different to 26″ 😉

Nice that. I don’t know why they have the bike name in that silly font though, other than that it looks great.

Funny how 650b doesn’t look any different to 26″

I was going to avoid that comment!

They look different side by side, I thin it’s the huge tyres that threw me off, makes the rim look smaller.

Woodster, so far, of all the 30KM I have ridden it, its been faultless, nice smooth gear changes though it will take a while to get used to the different ratios though shouldn’t take too long.
Big tires, using 30mm wide LB rims and have opted for 2.4 Ardent front and 2.2 Ikons at the back, never used this combo before but they should be fine for the mix of trail & concrete paths they will be mostly used on.

Shame someone bent it at the base of the seat tube 😉

Looks like a typical UK hardcore hardtail, although I’m guessing from the picture you are more HK than UK. Looks like a lot of fun though, enjoy it.

Valve tyre logo alignment fail, burn it with fire and start again. It’s the only way you’ll learn.

EDIT: It is/was (depending if you have burned it) a lovely bike.

That colour. 8)

Logo’s are off by a few cm from centering on the valves.

I like that.

Wheels are 1.5 inches too small though…

I like that.

Wheels are 1.5 inches too big, though….

Seriously, though, that is a lovely looking bike.

Lovely bike, I do prefer the original 26 Stanton but they’re all good, typical UK aggro bike for riding down inappropriate stuff!

Fantastic looking bike that! Just looks right.

I really want another long legged hardtail.