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Like some other posters i did the classic of over biking myself.
I really wanted the 07 Enduro but the wait time was 4-5 months and then the shop got hold of the SX and i bought it. However the race scene back around 07 was still wild regarding uplift and it was possible to do more damage to a bike in a single uplift run than a whole season of race runs and practice runs.
Imagine 20 bikes piled up in the back of a quarry lorry then bounced up hill on rough tracks. Common damage was pulled brake hoses, bent rotors, bent mech hangers, fork damage and i watched a flat pedal with steel pins saw through an Alu downtube. I stuck to racing on steel hardtails :)
Had a similar thing with the Whyte 46, did a demo day and ordered one on the day, then a week later shop called and stated totally sold out.
Did consider a Big Hit, the earlier models around 2004 where very very adjustable with multi positions on the shock to linkage mount and the shock to frame top mount, you could play around with tuning suspension a lot. That and the fixings where specced as off the shelf from hardware shops, unlike the dedicated hard to get even from the supplier fastners and fittings that followed.
Aimed at Privateer racers back then. Couple of locals fitted triple chainsets to them and did xc rides on them to find techy big things to play on :)