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I found your frame on Marketplace. If you sold it for your asking price, for not much more I'd offer you my Banshee Paradox V3. It's a large, however, so likely wouldn't fit you. To be honest, I absolutely love that bike, but wanted to go with sliding dropouts for single-speeding. I'd even include a SS tensioner. 😉 But seriously, I bet you could get a good deal on a new Paradox frame on Pinkbike these days. It's aluminum, but is surprisingly comfortable and I felt it handled Austin terrain super well. It easily fit 29x2.6 on 35i rims, but I also fit 27.5x2.8s on 45i rims so plenty of cush if you're so inclined. Anyway, sorry the Marino didn't work out for you. I've been eyeing their full sus and thinking it'd be fun to build a super budget big travel enduro bike, but like you, I've already blown my bike budget for 2023. Oh, who am I kidding... My bike budget is like the national deficit. I'll just increase it when the time comes! LOL Best, Tommy

Thanks, I knew you fit shorter bikes than me. At 480 reach it would be fun for me to try.

There's a good chance that all this bike needs is a rider with a different attitude. I doubt anyone is going to buy it from me, but I put it up just in case. It's seriously over-built for me though. I'm 165 pounds and dropping another 5-10 pounds in the next few weeks. I'm sure that someone with an extra 100 pounds on me would find this bike to be just right.

Maybe you’d like it better if weighed less? 30 lbs for modern bikes is light but if riding tech where having to lift front/back up ledges/using a lot of arm strength. I prefer a lighter bike. Heavy modern fs bikes on buff single track or rough fast downhills/jumps are another thing and no problem maybe/probably better in that regard

A friend of mine was going to a race and stopped at a McDonald's to take a crap. When he came out of the bathroom he said to the guy he was with "I just upgraded to XTR." So, there's that.