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I have a bud with a similar SST - Lyrik and Vivid coil. He loves it and did the BC bike race on it last year.
I also coach with the local high school xc team mostly to teach proper descending, but the kids either ride 50%+ sag with the rebound all the way closed, or zero sag and adjustments all over the place. When I raced in high school I paid great attention to my suspension, but some don't have a feeling for it.
It's totally fine and understandable to ask if the bike suits what you - its a reasonable question that only becomes an issue when other start complaining that Santa Cruz didn't design their bike especially for them. You can be disappointed, but it needs some perspective too
I want to preface this by saying I'm not trying to pick a fight or anything, but it seems to me that people complaining that the bike wasn't made for them is partially what lead to the V6 Tallboy the way it is. It's become part of the homogenous mass of Horst link bikes. I remember times when people complained about a new bike coming out and it not being Horst link, like the g3 Kona Process. Or it's like every time a bike comes out and people complain that the chainstays aren't long enough, or the stack isn't high enough, like come on get with the program here. Maybe as someone who is 6 feet tall I want short chainstays, or I want a single pivot with a higher anti rise, or I just want something that is a bit unique in how the suspension works. If I wanted a bike with 440+ stays, about 65ish % anti rise, etc..., there are already tons of great bikes out there that fit that, but people who don't want that are pretty quickly losing the bikes they like. I don't really think it's fair to dismiss the dislike of the new tallboy as people complaining the bike wasn't made for them, when so many bikes are becoming almost the exact same as the one from the next brand over.
I'm done ranting now.
I am not seeing how the last 4 pages of this thread have anything to do with rumors or innovation.
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