Danny B
Likes Dirt
So I'm moving to New Zealand in a month... and thinking that its a good time to upgrade my current bike to something that is capable of tackling of some rougher terrain.
I'm currently riding a 26" Jamis Dragon - 100mm travel steel hardtail (classic XC geometry - long chainstays and a 70º HT). In an ideal world I would be getting myself an AM/trail dualie but the $2.5-3.5K price tag for a decent one of these rules out this option. So instead I'm getting a new frame and fork and swapping over the parts from my current bike (not stock), which are fairly burly as it is.
So what I'm after is a long travel cro-mo hardtail frame. I've got myself a set of 150mm 2011 RS Revelation forks (w 1.125 straight steerer) to use with it. Ideally the frame will have trail geo, an oversize headtube (so I can run a tapered fork if I want) and a 30.9 or 31.6 seat tube so I can run a dropper, ISG mounts and cable routing for a front derailleur.
Been looking at:
Cotic B Fe
Chromag Aperture
Transition TransAm
Production Privee Shan
Ragley Piglet
On-one 456
Any other suggestions, or ones that are on my list which I should pass over? :juggle:
I'm currently riding a 26" Jamis Dragon - 100mm travel steel hardtail (classic XC geometry - long chainstays and a 70º HT). In an ideal world I would be getting myself an AM/trail dualie but the $2.5-3.5K price tag for a decent one of these rules out this option. So instead I'm getting a new frame and fork and swapping over the parts from my current bike (not stock), which are fairly burly as it is.
So what I'm after is a long travel cro-mo hardtail frame. I've got myself a set of 150mm 2011 RS Revelation forks (w 1.125 straight steerer) to use with it. Ideally the frame will have trail geo, an oversize headtube (so I can run a tapered fork if I want) and a 30.9 or 31.6 seat tube so I can run a dropper, ISG mounts and cable routing for a front derailleur.
Been looking at:
Cotic B Fe
Chromag Aperture
Transition TransAm
Production Privee Shan
Ragley Piglet
On-one 456
Any other suggestions, or ones that are on my list which I should pass over? :juggle: