>>1702849A good rider will feel the terrain through the preloading of the suspension, you can still feel what’s under your tires, you can still feel when you’re on a single row of sideknobs as you’re about to slide sideways, still feel the tire compress as you g-out in hard corners, you just also feel that there is a few hundred pounds of spring trying to fling your wheel downwards too
Hardtail at DH park can work and be really fucking fun, but the first 1, 2, 3 runs down you’ll be wishing you brought the suspension, and then suddenly you’ll get used to it and it’ll be awesome until the last few runs where you cycle back to fucking hating your hardtail on such rough trails
