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Yeah, Stanton has been sat in its Shopping Cart for a while now. Thought I'd give this XC thing a go before committing to anything. To be fair, the XC bike is probably more bike for my skill but I think I'm set on steel anyway so I probably should just pull the trigger on the Stanton. But which colour... they don't do black :S
hippy-
I don’t think there’s a mtb for skill level, there are many a lowly skilled rider on 170-180mm gravel bike, plenty of which in the 40+ age category, just go for a spin in the Surrey hills to see for yourself.
It doesn’t really matter what colour you choose, as you live in the UK so most of the time it’ll just be covered in mud
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Sherpa with a midweight 120 fork, dropper and wider bars would be a good shout. Might feel the weight a bit compared to something in composite with a racing fork but it would a lot of fun.
furious_tiles
Howard
Nope, you’d love it!
But I don’t think you need something quite so slack and with such travel.
Really think your best options are a Stanton Sherpa or a Cotic Soul Max.
Both a step up from out and out XC so more fun on the downs but not too sluggish on the ups, steel, 120-130mm fork, pedal well and as far as I’m aware can take a rigid fork for your looong events.
Oops this should have been for @hippy