https://www.last-bikes.com/Bikes
any thoughts on the Glen or Coal apart from the awful names
I have a Glen and love it, came from a Transition smuggler and the fit/finish was much better on the Last, geometry is great and the main reason I went for it to be honest.
Everything is well thought out (with the exception of chain stay protection), it uses one size bearing on all the pivots and they are all pressed into the swingarm/rocker so easy to change, threaded BB, my frame has all external hose routing which I like.
If I were ever in the position to build a 'super bike' I would be all over a Tarvo, that thing is stunning.
Edit: I still can't work out how to embed an Instagram post.....
I had an older Herb DH, it was... weird. Phenomenally well made, rock solid, best paint I've ever had on a bike by far. The suspension was ridiculously awesome, I think they still use the same basic "single pivot with a mad linkage" design and it was so pliant and responsive I genuinely pulled over thinking I had a flat tyre more than once. The sizing/dimensions were a total disaster but they've outgrown that now. (I had to use 160mm cranks on the medium so that I could pedal without kneeing the forks)
They're a good company too, I had to email them a couple of times for small parts etc and I got the designer responding. A friend bent the frame of his in a car crash- literally got hit by a van on the back of his car- and they replaced it for free, awesome. I'd totally buy from them again
