Why is full suspension so controversial?
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Plus we don't know your situation:
-Maybe you are younger and your body can take a beating on a rigid bike?
-Maybe you ride all machine built trails that are all buffed out?
-Maybe you never ride through rock gardens?
Maybe you've never taken a spin on FS bike...So you don't know what you don't know.
Too many factors at play for any of us to say what's best for you. Only you can decide that.
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I do enjoy my hardtail and it was nice how my teenage son and I worked on upgrades for fun of it. Great for nicely groomed trails and soon for bike packing. But I bought a FS to start tackling trails like this new one in my local state park:
Check out after the 6 minute time period. Yea, my son and I looked at this new trail with our hard tails and were like forget about it! Fat Bike on this, yea...no....
Other trails in this state park, yea fat bikes would be ok, heck, there are some true craziness from people using gravel bikes on some trails in this park......
Edit: Also bought the FS to start joining up some bike clubs in the local area to go riding with others in my age group.
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If you ride really smooth trails or you don't care about control at speed on rough ones.... guess I don't have much to say.
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Never been on a machine built trail
The fat bike is new to me, actually, and probably going to bring me back to riding more trails, as it has enough squish and width to ride modern trails (CX bike doesn't for many of them), but still slow negotiation of some stuff.
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