I’ve been having a long running discussion with Mischa about the merits of hard tails for thrash sessions. We’ve sat and watched the ‘Hard Tails Rule’ section in ‘Earthed 3’, where Peaty and another rider slay English back-wood trails on zero inches of rear travel, mightly inspiring stuff.. A recent issue of Dirt Mag (www.dirtmag.co.uk) sung the praises of hard tail thrashing.. This is a hymn book I’m happy to sing from, I especially love the pslam ‘Down and Out on a Hardtail’.. (http://www.dirtmag.co.uk/features/down-and-out-on-a-hardtail) Personally, I love the connected feel a hardtail gives you with the ground.. especially if it’s made of steel. Throw a 140mm fork on a steel hard tail frame, a beefy wheelset and some wide tyres and you have a ready made recipy for fun. Anyway, when I came across the new NS Society frame.. well, I fell in love.. As my esteemed college is in the market for a new bike ..and taking into consideration our earlier conversations, I felt THIS bike needed a BnC post just to throw in another opinion..
A nice frame no doubt, but a hardtail thrasher is less of a priority at the moment. I thank you for your monotonous, ridiculous and continuous bike purchase suggestions, ya broken record!
at least its steel…
Perhaps a steel framed, dual sping-er Huffy then M?
Matches your budget and skill level? Hahaha.. nah. yeah.