Let's offroad / mountain bike / mtb / ride dirt

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skinny in reply to @chris0

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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chris0 in reply to @skinny

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...

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skinny in reply to @chris0

In my mind that would be like cotic geo 65 ISH head angle and then 30mm stem. Which isn't what you want for that riding. Actually normal geo 67/68 and a medium stem will be nicer for that style bike. So platypus suggestion is really good too, as those bikes will often be that geo.

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