The idea of having lots of bikes just confuses me! Used to ride a hardtail for everything - Cotic Soul with 140mm forks , 1x10 and a Gravity Dropper. Then added a full-sus (Banshee Spitfire) and slacked out a Bird Zero AM 150mm 27.5 hardtail as a LLS upgrade to the Soul. When I got a Levo the Spitfire proved one bike too many and was sold - so the Levo gets ridden without power when I’m with a group or with power on my own.
I also commute on the Levo, across a hilly city with some cheeky trails and urban features to liven up my journeys - sometimes I use the hardtail but it’s never as much fun for that.
The Zero AM is about to be replaced with a Pipedream Moxie - excited to go to 29” wheels, back to steel and hopefully better geometry (not quite as low, slacker, bigger reach and stack and longer chainstays with sliding dropouts) for my needs (I’ve been thinking about replacing the Zero for years, it was really just a mule for a custom steel hardtail).
The sliding dropouts have sucked me into singlespeed madness - ordered the parts do that and initially I’ll be building it up as a singlespeed. A 160mm hardtail is a fairly silly bike at the best of times so why not go all the way?!!
Feb. 21, 2022, 12:44 p.m. - a.funks
The idea of having lots of bikes just confuses me! Used to ride a hardtail for everything - Cotic Soul with 140mm forks , 1x10 and a Gravity Dropper. Then added a full-sus (Banshee Spitfire) and slacked out a Bird Zero AM 150mm 27.5 hardtail as a LLS upgrade to the Soul. When I got a Levo the Spitfire proved one bike too many and was sold - so the Levo gets ridden without power when I’m with a group or with power on my own. I also commute on the Levo, across a hilly city with some cheeky trails and urban features to liven up my journeys - sometimes I use the hardtail but it’s never as much fun for that. The Zero AM is about to be replaced with a Pipedream Moxie - excited to go to 29” wheels, back to steel and hopefully better geometry (not quite as low, slacker, bigger reach and stack and longer chainstays with sliding dropouts) for my needs (I’ve been thinking about replacing the Zero for years, it was really just a mule for a custom steel hardtail). The sliding dropouts have sucked me into singlespeed madness - ordered the parts do that and initially I’ll be building it up as a singlespeed. A 160mm hardtail is a fairly silly bike at the best of times so why not go all the way?!!