proceed fst light.

after riding the vt for some time i felt it was just not doing what i wanted it to do. while it was reasonably light at around 13 kg i felt that giant had made some compromises to get there, especially with the fork and the rims. the manitou black was a bottom of the…

proceed fst.

building it was fun, so the next question was: how much fun is it to ride it? i had high expectations. i bought a freerider because i wanted to get more performance downhill, and of course i had bought the ‘light’ version because i wanted decent uphill capabilities, too. the ‘pike’ stands for both: 145mm…

please proceed.

how do i explain this? do you know the feeling when you are almost, but not entirely, happy? and the feeling that things could be just a little better slowly pushes itself into the foreground, until you completely forget that things are actually basically really good, and there is only one way forward and one…