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Not BFEmax? Am I losing my street fat cred?

Would work. Is there one available or are these built to order? How much?

http://www.stribecycles.com/hubble/
@larsenroad

I've emailed them and Cotic too.

Yo! We are placing an order on a batch soon. If we ship directly to you from the factory we can do £1400 including shipping, ex VAT.

You can see some history of the frame design and brand here: https://www.lfgss.com/conversations/317190/

Yo hippy Ti!

ex VAT.

thats gonna hurt
#fuckbrexit

Kona big honzo st any good? Comes as 27.5+ but can be run 29er the honzo st 29 actually hits the brief better but no stock anywhere. This one should be available

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Hippy the muppets!

Honzos are nice

If it's shipped to the EU do I still have to deal with all that?

This is why I'm looking at EU and UK sale and delivery options.

I think I saw one of them somewhere but dismissed it as a bit too far towards trail bike. Maybe not. I wonder about a smaller fork later on?

wheelbase.co.uk - anyone used them before? Never heard of them myself so I'd be wary of anyone reporting stock of anything given the shenanigans with the tyre purchase the other month.

You will I am sure be fine to travel to the EU and then come back with the bike, but bear in mind the 0.01% chance that you get pulled up about it - you'd have to pay duty and VAT on it in addition to the EU VAT you paid when purchasing it.

I assume you can swap out the air spring in on those to reduce the travel to 120mm if you want which will give you a 68° head angle which is more xc territory. Reviews seem good for the bike and everyone seems to really rate the fork.

Tokens don't reduce travel but increase the progression of an air fork. You have to change the air shaft to change the travel; neither expensive nor difficult to do.

Wheelbase are good, Kona Honzo gooder.

Let's assume I ride it back from Poland. So far as they're concerned, I left the UK with it.

The longer this thread goes the more inclined I am to see if my framebag fits in the Inbred...

:D

Cheers 👍 edited that last post accordingly. Just read up on how the tokens work. I probably should have done that first 🤦🏻‍♂️

Let's assume I ride it back from Poland. So far as they're concerned, I left the UK with it.

You'll probably be fine.

Is this resolved yet?

chill out dude, Brexit only took 4 years!

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.

Honzo will be perfect for the great divide route singletrack (12 miles out of 2800 LOL).

Actually buy the Honzo for the fun stuff. Honzo is a fun bike. Use the Inbred on the divide - its ideal for that.

What gear ratio have previous SSers run on the TD? Do they take flip flop hubs or is it a set and forget rule like the Silverstate 508?

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.