Pinches I do like your Intense – looks like a fun bike, compact, fast, chuckable, more than strong enough. Is it realistically light enough to do 2-3 hour trail rides on?
To be honest, no. its not an all day trail bike and its impossible to pedal up hill for any distance! although: its a 16" and i cant run a long enough seat to make my legs work efficiently sat down. It has 4.5" travel in the steeper head angle but the geometry is full on 4x race bike. with my build, 31LB but as you say, fast rolling, chuckable.
or with DeeMaxx if you like