Looking for opinions as dh riders who ride a short travel for all mountain and generally razzing round the woods.
Narrowed it down to the prophet 2, MKIII expert or a custom built santa cruz blur 4x. just looking for the funest thing to ride everything imaginable, obveously i have my dh bike for full on dh and a hardtail for 4x/dj but i just want a bike that i can allways pick up ride anywhere and have fun on it, so it needs to jump, corner, descend, handle rough stuff(to an extent) and climb.
mkIII- i know some guys on here have these so... is the 69.5 h/a with the full length pikes? it seems pretty steep compared to the other two.
what frame size for a 5'10-11" rider for fun and descending rather than pure xc climbing
blur- is the h/a on the site 68.5 with full length pikes or 110mm?(axle to crown is 417mm if anyone knows what that works out to)
again what frame size?
How does the rear end handle compaired to others? too little travel or does the linkage make up for it?
prophet- flexy withought bolt thru or not?
Quick side note how do you guys recon a trance would handle with pikes in comparison to the others? I may be able to get one cheeper but id rather get the best bike possible to save changes in the future.
Other than that which do you rate and why any comparisons would be great also!
Thanks for any help, Im getting one as soon as becaus a few of the bikes are on special offer so i need to act fast!
Narrowed it down to the prophet 2, MKIII expert or a custom built santa cruz blur 4x. just looking for the funest thing to ride everything imaginable, obveously i have my dh bike for full on dh and a hardtail for 4x/dj but i just want a bike that i can allways pick up ride anywhere and have fun on it, so it needs to jump, corner, descend, handle rough stuff(to an extent) and climb.
mkIII- i know some guys on here have these so... is the 69.5 h/a with the full length pikes? it seems pretty steep compared to the other two.
what frame size for a 5'10-11" rider for fun and descending rather than pure xc climbing
blur- is the h/a on the site 68.5 with full length pikes or 110mm?(axle to crown is 417mm if anyone knows what that works out to)
again what frame size?
How does the rear end handle compaired to others? too little travel or does the linkage make up for it?
prophet- flexy withought bolt thru or not?
Quick side note how do you guys recon a trance would handle with pikes in comparison to the others? I may be able to get one cheeper but id rather get the best bike possible to save changes in the future.
Other than that which do you rate and why any comparisons would be great also!
Thanks for any help, Im getting one as soon as becaus a few of the bikes are on special offer so i need to act fast!