Oh, btw, while thinking about my sore arse. I'd love to know who were the idiots who thought making hardtails out of aluminium was a good idea. They need their heads kicked. It just doesn't make sense. They put flash forks on the things but you can really use them because you're getting kicked like a mule from the rear end. It's unbalanced.

My old cromo rigid Trek had a cromo fork that beat me up, but the rear end was beautifully compliant. You could feel it flexing on the big hits and the little hits never seemed to be an issue. It would make much more sense to have that nice compliant rear end of my trek mated to a good fork.

Combine the rear end of my old trek with the front end of my Giant and it'd be a beautiful bike. So what if it was even a kg heavier? On that ride yesterday, weight wasn't a factor, but getting beaten up certainly was. Can't wait to bust this alu POS so I get move the bit's over onto some cromo goodness.