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After looking at the Oreba Loki H and the Orange crush rs I'm torn , I'm looking for a nice lightweight trail toy for smiley days out but as I'm 40+ I don't fancy something that will crease me after the first 10 miles, hence why I'm looking at 650b plus, the larger tyre should just give me a little more comfort.
Ive looked at the Scott Scale 710 plus and the Loki as I mentioned but ideally I'm looking for something with around 140-150 mm out front , I do like the Kingdom Ventetta but at £1250 for frame alone I fear its just out of my 2k budget.
If anyone has any help that would be great cheers
Mondraker vantage - they do a ''normal' and a plus I think.
Cheers Stu ,right kind of thing but not a fan of Mondraker , cheers anyways 😉
No worries very marmite I appreciate! Not sure of many others...
Stanton Sherpa?
Sonder Transmitter?
They where two I considered when I briefly considered 'plus size' but in the end I went for a Cotic BFe with standard 650b tyres
I fondled a Loki the other day, seemed really nice!
Last fast forward? 64 HA
DMR it can take a longer fork and I've chased it on a full suss and it's remarkably capable. Or maybe I'm incapable on my full suss...
Better than a Ragley Bluepig or Cotic Soul by all accounts.
No idea if that is the sort of HT you're after though.
Found this last night and the money seems right, only a 67o head angle but cs length is good at 425, dropper and new yari forks 130mm and a nice mountain mint esk colour.
Norco torrent 7.2
Ragley bigwig is 64.5° static with a 140mm fork .if you look in the long 650+ thread theres a few pics of mine in there.
Think Ben from Bird was on plus tyres at wge this weekend in the hardtail cat...
bird AM can run a 2.8 tyre
I just got really excited by the prospect of a new DMR, but a £500 frame?
Have DMR owners gotten all grown up and middle aged with more money than sense?
I think after the reviews its got im close to the Torrent , the spec looks good right for the money but and here is the thing , I can only find one seller or Norco , Evans cycles ,does anyone else know a Norco dealer as im loathed to hand money to Evans !
We, Evans, import Norco so only available through us, but thanks for the vote of confidence :-p
Have a look at Jamis dragonslayer as well, we import them too 🙂
I had the same dilemma and finally went with [url= https://www.alpkit.com/sonder/sonder-transmitter ]Sonder Transmitter[/url] fantastic spec and even with the optional Pike it comes in way under your £2k budget