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Which bike is that? Even their current aggressive HT doesn't have these numbers...

From the tech sheet:

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E Lenkwinkel head angle 63,0°

F Sitzrohrwinkel real seat angle 74,0°

Even the new Moxie doesn't have numbers like the Doctahawk. The closest thing to this are the crazy frames from Sick bikes and I would not put those in the same class or quality as a Chromag by a mile. Next would be the Ti Kingdom UK spec but even that doesn't have the seat angle...

I'm a hardtail lover too I don't want a hardtail like the Doctahawk but I think its rad that the geometry envelope is being pushed and especially so by a Canadian manufacturer. I have yet to find another hardtail that has these numbers, someone prove me wrong please.

Curmudgeon alert: Agree, I'm already annoyed by the amount of battery charging faffing about I do in the rest of my life as it is. the last thing I want is to charge more batteries then have to carry those batteries with me on a ride. Do I have to rubber band my bike batteries now to so I know which has a charge and which doesn't?... Ugh. In my over 40 years of riding bicycles in every genre I can count on one hand a cable related issue that caused maybe a mild irritation to my riding experience. I guarantee this system will be far more annoying than that record.

Ugh, I hope not... I suspect realistically no but I can see this becoming the only method of communication in the higher end groups which would suck. 

I guess I have officially become a curmudgeon, I don't think the bicycle needs to be improved with the use of electronics. Perhaps the only exception being those that make a living racing them. #mechanicalforever

Such a lovely bike. Wish the semi custom options offered a bit more customization the BB drop is a bit too low and an extra degree of seat tube angle in the steeper direction wouldn't hurt. Finally why do single pivot manufacturers optimize their pivot location for large chainrings? I ride in a club with hundreds of members and I can't think of a single one of them that runs a 1x with a 32t or larger on the front. We're not all athletes, optimizing for a 30 or better yet a 28t would garner a much larger slice of the general public pie.

Encourage them to make a 29xi35mm! :)

Same.

"Compress it by building downward pressure very slowly, vertically through the bars and note how quickly the bushes bind until the bar actually bends instead of the fork compressing! Do it again with the forks at their usual angle and you can see it isn't so different! Vertically it binds almost as badly…"

I call BS on that statement. ALL of my suspension forked bikes bind more at angle than vertical. 

"The smaller rear wheel gives the best of both worlds really, the front wheel is loaded on the bump face by the rider but the rear wheel is behind the rider, so the smaller rear wheel is not a hindrance on the bump face."

True when your bikes have super long chain stays (like Geometrons) try that on a short chainstay bike and get back to me.

"Oh, and maybe water bottle designers can design bottles to fit bikes instead of bike designers having to make bikes and suspension systems to fit water bottles?"

Totally agree with this, there is room for innovation here.

This! Great for climbing steeps and then bombing down. Obviously this bike would suck on flatter terrain but its also clearly not designed for that...

Yes I know. I was referring to the cost statement. I agree it’s not relevant in this context as I mentioned. I should have finished with; the lock reviewed is a tin snip lock so any lock with that level of security would be as good security wise, weigh the same or less and be MUCH less expensive.

Re weight yes, re price no, there are as good as you can get locks on the market for much less than that; OnGuards 8001 is one example at 66buck in Canadian dollars and free shipping no less.

I'm not trying to be argumentative either. I'm a bike nerd and read about such things. Should newbs find blogs and posts like this I just want them to know that they can get the best possible for reasonable costs. AND No I wouldn't use that lock in this context, it is indeed a beast. :)

CoilAir, it can be as complicated or simple as you like! The leverage ratio refers to the amount of force applied for a given travel distance. Bikes can have higher, lower or variable leverage (and as such force applied) differences through out the entire range of available travel. In the case of the Process 153 it appears that you're leverage ratio changes very little from zero travel to full travel and falls from a higher leverage ratio to a lower ratio approximately 2.84 to 2.62. So at the beginning of your travel you have a bigger lever i.e. more force than you have at the end of your travel a smaller lever i.e. less force. The force chart is simply indicating how much force that lever is applying at a given travel.

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Make sure your wire and spade are appropriately sized for the amperage. Good luck. Coffee machine down = bad.

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I have a Nimble 9 which is similar in Geo to the Honzo or Taro. I can say that its is a great bike with ridiculously short chain stays and a similarly very short wheelbase. Its a fun bike to ride for sure but not nearly as fun as my Heckler.

That was tough to stomach as first (my first modern bike I built) but riding back to back even on trails that really don't warrant the Heckler I'd prefer to be on it. I have relegated the Nimble 9 to my bike packing bike and occasionally will take it out for a ride around town but for fun on the trails its the Heckler all the way.

Despite its geo I just can't manipulate the 29er as easily, level wheel lifts, front wheel lifts manuals etc. are all more difficult to do on it. I suspect that despite the progressive geo one still has that BB drop to contend with and that changes leverage ratios significantly. The heckler with its much longer wheelbase (1138 vs 1080ish) much longer chain stay (439 vs 415ish) feels more nimble and fun, it does have the smaller 27.5 wheels and a correspondingly shorter BB drop… My 2 cents.

I'm also heading in the light as possible direction. Went from Flows to lighter wheels (still trail oriented) and from the 2.4 Ardents to the 2.2 Ikons. The difference in weight/feel has been awesome (I run both tubeless.) I'm now convinced that my bike budget needs to redirect as much funds as possible to even lighter wheels! I like those Beavers but the EXO version is 760grams which likely means closer to 800 about the weight of the Ardents…

The start of our local haunt here (Hartland) is one big climb. The rest is short ups and downs its just too much climbing for the big tires for too little pay offs on short downs.