I, too, have been snooping around for a smaller Mtb for my son. There’s a Shogun Prairie Breaker 1 on the cheap about a 30 minute drive from me. When I google there are pics of some with double plate fork crowns and nice seat stay caps but (as far as I can tell from one pic) the one near me doesn’t have these features. It does have RD cable stop on top of the chain stay which is interesting.
Anyway, despite the silly name, there are 2 or 3 versions of this around and they seem kind of cool.
https://charlottesville.craigslist.o...986268662.html
This particular one, I think, would be more of a project than I want right now.
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