Originally Posted by
tyrion
My first thought was "I never hit things that hard on my unsuspended bike, so I don't need them."
2nd thought: "Well if I had them maybe I would hit things harder."
3rd thought: "Do I want to hit things harder?"
I was shopping for an all-purpose bike, and the Journeyman came up as a candidate with a lot of nice frame and fork features. The drop bar version is a less expensive version of the aluminum Warbird of a few years ago. The flat bar frame is much the same in its features as the drop bar version but it's nearly 2" longer, and especially the version with the 27.5x2" tires I can see treating pretty much like a rigid MTB. And it's got tubeless rims. Hence the genesis of the thread.