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What's progressive geo?
I'm biased but a Holt sounds great for that list of riding.
I wouldn't ride a specialized. They're the company that go around suing people and cancelling their ambassador programme on a dime. Sure you can buy from a better company.
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I vaguely thought progressive geo just meant slacker front end, shorter stem/longer reach and better suited to more technical terrain than old school XC bikes (but MTB is new terrain for me).
Holt was the other option on the list too or possibly starting with the Chisel and then upgrading to a holt frame and transfering the parts across.
Didn't know about specialized rep though...
chris0
Thinking about getting an MTB. Type of riding includes doing the length of SDW in a day, plus some bikepacking around the UK, Surrey hills etc. My thoughts are a modern hard tail 29er with progressive geo in steel/ alu as I want something simple to maintain and the next step along from a gravel bike. Considering Specialized Chisel as the frame looks fairly light and could be built up to light weight bike for all the climbing in SDW etc, but wondering if being a XC racing bike might be limiting long term for more bikepacking stuff (lack of mounting points etc), although might be a good starting point to get a feel for what works?