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Fortitude and Cooker used to be mine, still have the GreenPuss.
The hub was the SRK-3, could not kill it on the rocks or stairs, only serviced it once during three years and never missed a beat. Perfect if the Alfine is too much heft and ratio and the SS is too spinny. Can't quite remember the gearing, I guess it was 34-18 on the Fortitude and 32-18 on the Cookie...
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Cooker B+
Also as a 29er 3sp:
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Fortitude MX 3sp:
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Slacker SSed again:
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Depends on the tyre, pressure etc I'd say. I've found the Surly's Knard tyres to roll well however they're not the best in terms of offroad grip especially in the wet, Dirt Wizzards are much better but are heavier and draggier. Bontrager's Chupacabras (or XR2 as they're called now) are also quite good in terms of weights and rolling, similar to Knards...
Accept and pootle is the name of the game :) -
Longitude: Bontrager RL Carbon 720
Fortitude: can't remember
D01 Decade: Whyte Gravel 48cm
D01 520: On-One Midge
High Lat SS: Superstar Components 780 -
The Mk1 Longitude as above was designed for 29+ish wheels with slacker HT angle, Mk2 was for B+ hoops and more trail ready with suspension corrected forks, still managed to squeeze 29+ though!
Not 100% sure about the Mk3 - afaik they went back to the original design with B+ wheels and slightly steeper angles..?
Apologies for hijacking the thread for classifieds but I’d be willing to sell the frame(headset, seatclamp, boost dropouts with the axle) with ss dropouts, wheels and forks for £550. Drop me a PM if interested.