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I basically have that in the gravel bike (and the Inbred when I get it sorted) so my next bike will almost certainly be a hardtail so I can ride some of the gnarlier stuff without vibrating my eyeballs into 2001 Space Odyssey Vision™ before ruts and corners and stuff. Also thinking longer duration stuff front suss might saves arms/hands and flat bars mean I can try out bar roll packing which will give me more capacity for camping gear and solo (or paired with the missus) trips into dirt world.
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Hippy how come you don't try and buy a rigid 29er? Kona unit X, planet x bigdog, Sonder frontier, I only know cheap options, I'm sure there are boutiquer ones but something like that? It seems like the good inbetween for someone who wants to ride far, off road, in relative comfort, but doesn't want/can't afford to mess with shocks ? Isn't there a flatbar alu alpkit bike that's pretty cheap and has pretty good clearance?
I ask because I feel the same as you re: shock maintenance.