Originally Posted by
talonwing
Regardless of what you guys do to the ds it will never feel like a mountain bike. If you change tires, rims or front fork the bike is still going to be a hybrid . You need to change the frame also. The frame geometry is different between hybrid and mountain bike.
Then apparently you have never ridden a DS, or at least taken a close look at its geometry...which is
almost identical to Trek's "real" 29er mountain bikes. In fact, the DS is so close to MTB posture that I am actually trying my damnedest to frankenbike my 2013 DS
INTO more of a hybrid...