Short travel downhill bikes with full length un-interrupted 19-inch seat tubes, relatively steep seat tubes, front der., not too slack head angle(~67), relatively high standover, 14-ish bb height, lightish frame.
What's out there? Basically, I want a SX trail that I can actually put the seat up and take out on XC rides.
There's lots of bikes that are close, but no cigar.
Most 'slopestyle' bikes like bottlerocket, sx trail, etc. don't cut the mustard because the standover is too low to get xc seat height without a 600mm seatpost.
Most 'heavy trailbike' bikes don't cut the mustard because they lean towards the xc side geometry-wise and I wouldn't trust them on anything remotely big.
I used to really dig my AS-X until I had to sell it. The asr-7 is looking intriguing but expensive. I know kanter has a socom with a front der. which is just the kind of thing I'm talking about.
What's out there? Basically, I want a SX trail that I can actually put the seat up and take out on XC rides.
There's lots of bikes that are close, but no cigar.
Most 'slopestyle' bikes like bottlerocket, sx trail, etc. don't cut the mustard because the standover is too low to get xc seat height without a 600mm seatpost.
Most 'heavy trailbike' bikes don't cut the mustard because they lean towards the xc side geometry-wise and I wouldn't trust them on anything remotely big.
I used to really dig my AS-X until I had to sell it. The asr-7 is looking intriguing but expensive. I know kanter has a socom with a front der. which is just the kind of thing I'm talking about.