First ride in the bag up at laggan yesterday. First thoughts 🙂
1. Climbs way better than a 160mm bike has any right to.
2. Dave Weagle is a genius. Seriously.
3. It corners like it is on rails. Very nimble handling which suits me very well.
4. MRP Stage fork – so far i am also very impressed. Unlike the pike or fox where you add tokens to ramp up at the end of the stroke the adjuster on the left stanchion on the stage has a dial with 16 increments that does this job. It works very well. I had 4 from none out and didn’t feel the need for much more. 2 clicks out of 8 of LSC seemed a decent amount as well. I will have to give it a good run in and really mess about with the settings but i have never like a fork so quickly as this. It was very plush initially but when it got technical there was a great deal of mid stroke support.
So far i am a happy lad 🙂