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@leggy_blonde
Nice little shake-down and set-up ride around Peaslake yesterday. Unsurprisingly it is a lot more capable and faster than a 27.5 hardtail down hills! Definitely takes more effort for scandi flicks and manuals etc so the trails need to be quite rough and/or steep for it to be more fun than my HT but rough is good so...
The "basic" MT501 brakes really are excellent and I'm impressed with the shifting of the XT stuff.
Testing the rebound settings on the Thick n Creamy drop:
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