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adamreah
Joined: 16 Mar 2009
Posts: 6
Location: Darlington
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 Posted Thu Nov 5, 2009 12:19 pm |
Just a quickie. Any opinions will be appreciated. Wanting a hard tail frame and was considering the on one 456, however I have also noticed the 456 summer which has a really slack head angle. I will be running 5 inch forks and doing plenty of trail over the winter/north shore/drop offs but still wanting something that will climb well. Is the summers head angle too slack?
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ride_whenever
Joined: 17 Oct 2006
Posts: 8280
Location: United Kingdom
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Posted Thu Nov 5, 2009 12:31 pm |
456, lighter climbs much better.
Use 125mm on mine for just riding along and it's lovely. Climbs all but the steepest rootiest stuff at that without needing to wind the forks down.
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adamreah
Joined: 16 Mar 2009
Posts: 6
Location: Darlington
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Posted Thu Nov 5, 2009 12:35 pm |
Thanks mate. I was trying to find the full spec, i.e. weight geometry etc but couldn't. Could be me being a bit blind though.
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ride_whenever
Joined: 17 Oct 2006
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Location: United Kingdom
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Posted Thu Nov 5, 2009 12:47 pm |
here is the 456 details. The summer slacker has plain guage tubing and a 66.6 degree head angle IIRC.
For build, if i were building one up now, it'd be the u-turn revs with blackbox damping and maxle lite, slx go, avid elixir 5 stop, stans flow on pro 2 for wheels. Then whatever finishing kit floats your boat, they're best with a short 50-60mm stem and quite wide bars, 650mm minimum, best around 700mm for me (but the optimum is based on shoulder width, you want forearms parallel to direction of travel when in attack position)
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