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I think that's a fair assessment. Given the amount of 160mm travel bikes at Peaslake, the English are going to need 200mm for those alpine blue runs....
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Given the amount of 160mm travel bikes at Peaslake
Don't think I've bottomed out at Peaslake with 140/120, and @Dammit didn't look to be struggling on his XC bike. I haven't ridden anything where I felt under biked, and if you look at the bikes that have won EWS races they're not always enduro bikes.
Horses for courses!
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The Megatower (which is 160 F/R) felt like it'd roll over anything in Morzine, which is why after riding it for a week I was convinced that a shorter travel bike was definitely what I wanted.
I did try to hire a Hightower for Morzine but literally no hire place had one - "the English, they want a Megatower or a V10, there is no demand for a Hightower", said directly to me, presumably I was counted as being Flemish/other for the purposes of this.