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Solaris Max is a big bike for the divide. Cy is only saying that as Cotic dont have a lightish mile muncher anymore (it was the old Solaris). I think they will being back the Soul in 29 as a light XC bike at some point. Rode with a couple of Blackburn sponsered riders on Niner ROS' and they really suffered on the flat and road bits
I would happily use a Sherpa on the divide with rigid forks in whatever steel Leggy says you can have.
No experience of the Pace
Aside from availibility think comes down to which geo is best and what you are genuinely going to use it for as I am still not clear on that.
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Clearly this is "order the Stanton now" kind of situation.
Cobble a groupset & forks together from people willing to sell stuff on here while you wait for the new Deore to be back in stock.
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You could look at sourcing your own Helm for the Pace, gives you options, but potentially a bit over specified if you only want 130mm, a Pike would be fine for that and likely a lot cheaper.
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Cotic, Stanton and Pace all replied within minutes of each other.
Cotic:
Thanks for getting in touch. Sounds like a SolarisMAX would be spot on for your needs, great geometry for those techy sections but light, compliant and tough for the massive rides. Someone did the Tour Divide on one a couple of years ago.
We will have large SolarisMAXs back in stock mid April, they are due to hit UK shores on 8th April then will take a couple of weeks to get through customs etc and delivered to us.
A frame to London would be the quickest and easiest option. Shipping to EU now incurs an import duty of 4.7% (14% on full bikes!) and a handling fee.
Large is definitely the right size for you.
Pace:
We have large RC529 frames in Rioja which are ready to build up into complete bikes, just need to look into fork availability which some are due in the next few weeks, either way you are looking at 6/8 weeks on bike builds currently on stock in house.
That ETA will improve but best of giving you a worst-case scenario first off.
If you're after a frame, you're looking at May time. Already taking pre-orders for those now should you want one.
I wouldn't run anything lower than a 130mm travel fork on that model.
Stanton:
Hope you're good and thanks for getting in touch. Just updated that notice as we now have Sherpa frames in stock in steel. They're taking about 3-5 weeks to head out the door now, as they still need to be painted, but they are available to buy.
It'd be cheaper to get the large Sherpa in the UK, and it'd be faster to order a frame rather than a complete build. We're unsure of components for builds at the moment as they're quite hard to get hold, so the spec might change depending on what's available when the frame heads into assembly.