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I'm with @Minlak on this - get a trail bike, one that has been designed to get thrown around and have fun. 2 suggestions of such a bike I know of are:
There's others I'm sure, but these 2 really speak to the inner hickwit.
As for what sort of bike you are after, I suggest the giant catalogue as your visual guide. The anthem is pure xc and the older anthems even more so. All steep angles and efficiency oriented angles. The trance is a trail bike with more relaxed geometry and a little more playful look to it. I wouldn't recommend either of them, but it should give you some idea about the shapes you are considering.
And the comment about xc bikes feeling like hardrails is bull shit. My polygon runs 100mm of travel and I have it set up to 15-20% sag, which is pretty stiff. It definitely feels like a dually when I am riding it on a trail or jumps. Fuck it even feels like a dually riding it around town. Get one of them and put a dropper on it. Why not go full goon if you're going to go goon? Or that mountain cycle battery cokes was offering a while ago? You can run dual crown forks on that and be an epic goose!
- transition scout
- banshee spitfire
There's others I'm sure, but these 2 really speak to the inner hickwit.
As for what sort of bike you are after, I suggest the giant catalogue as your visual guide. The anthem is pure xc and the older anthems even more so. All steep angles and efficiency oriented angles. The trance is a trail bike with more relaxed geometry and a little more playful look to it. I wouldn't recommend either of them, but it should give you some idea about the shapes you are considering.
And the comment about xc bikes feeling like hardrails is bull shit. My polygon runs 100mm of travel and I have it set up to 15-20% sag, which is pretty stiff. It definitely feels like a dually when I am riding it on a trail or jumps. Fuck it even feels like a dually riding it around town. Get one of them and put a dropper on it. Why not go full goon if you're going to go goon? Or that mountain cycle battery cokes was offering a while ago? You can run dual crown forks on that and be an epic goose!