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According to Halfords, they might even be able to get it in a few days. That depends on how quickly they send my claim voucher through and how they respond to my trying to knock £200 off their price. If not, I'll start getting difficult, but that takes time...
I was into DH and jump a few years ago, but only got back into it recently. I was pretty lucky in the sense that the bike had been sat unused under a tarpaulin for a few years and I only took it out recently to fit new forks and disc brake on. Up until the other week, it only had a '97 Rockshox XC with the long travel (80mm!) DH kit on it - which makes me think it being nicked wasn't a coincidence. Halfords weighed up the cost of buying in the custom parts, the cost of buying the equivalent Zaskar (now firmly in XC mode I see) or handing me a voucher for something different off the shelf.
Of course if the Stinky is 40lbs, then that'll be a little more for gravity to grab hold of. Might take some effort to get it off the ground though - and I'm not sure the momentum will help when I'm charging towards a tree at 40mph...