My original plan was that this bike would be my super hilly/heavy stuff commuter and to take it to Alaska with me in a few weeks, but I have been biten hard by the dirt bug after a long hiatus and I'm daydreaming about Moab and Whistler and mass amounts of fun. This frame is the bomb and it feels like the first day I got her 13 years ago right before the suspension fork boom took off. She dances up hills and makes you a better rider - a better technical rider, which is nearly a lost art with today's push-a-button-motocross-soulless-hybrid mtbs.