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This is much the same with my Nomad and the 5010.
When I ride the 5010 at trails that don’t really warrant a 170 travel bike, it just never feels quite right. There’s always a feeling that it could somehow be riding better.
I’m more relaxed and ride better on the Nomad and pretty much always choose it over anything else.
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My trail bike is in Singapore at the moment so I'm riding the Enduro bike - this morning around Peaslake. I don't know why but something about the Raaw Madonna feels very "right", I feel more comfortable on it than I do the Jibb, that I can recover situations that I think would be challenging to gather back up, and that it's easier to make the Madonna do what I want it to do.
The Jibb is definitely (on paper) the better bike for Peaslake/HstM, and it'd definitely go up the hills faster, but of the two bikes I have to say I prefer the Madonna.