recently bought one of these frames and when i build her up after she's delivered she ain't leaving my ownership to sell one of these engineering works of art is blasphemy there should be laws against it lol i have never ridden one before but i gotta say i have heard nothing but good things about this bike regardless of the flaws that come with single pivot suspension the only "bad" things (if you can call them "bad things") that i've heard about them is that they're heavy but its a pretty weak excuse not to buy one if you ask me in my opinion weight = strength it might not be necessarily the case with ALL bikes but the more weight obviously means theres more metal and the more metal means that theres more strength i don't give a damn if the frame is 9.5 lbs without a shock hell i'm putting coil totem on the front of mine with a halo combat wheelset. why be a weight weeny on a dh bike? unless obviously you're actually competing in races. anyway good review and sorry for bumping this just letting you all know that theres one more balfa out there keeping the good name alive making the balfa trio's work not in vein. :)

i know this is an old post but i just came across it looking for a vid on how to change the springs in totems as i have a medium or soft (not sure which is in it atm think its a medium spring) and i also have a firm spring for my totem. i'm in two minds weather or not to change the spring in mine but i guess i'll see how it rides more when my bb7 frame comes. and not to be negative or anything: but what is the point of removing the floodgate/mission control? i mean doesn't the "if its not broke don't fix it" rule apply here? is taking the floodgate/mission control just to unrestrict the flow of oil in the fork to make the suspension more free? they may be times when you need high speed compression at a more controlable level because wouldn't the fork me more likely to bottom out or something if the floodgate/mission control was took out? and more importantly is there any drawbacks? (silly question..) RAMBLING OVER lol sorry for all the questions but there must be downsides to this in terms of compression