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Quote: Originally Posted by xrayeddy There's no doubt the measurements are accurate, but the tt is taken from a point on the bike most of us can't check, unless you've got an extended steerer tube on your fork. That, and you have to take into consideration the angles of the head tube and seat tube. Put a steeper head tube , slacker seat tube and you've got a 24" tt, but it's not an extra large frame. Sorry, no,...

Quote: Originally Posted by jimarin i just ordered this: http://www.frameskin.com/product.php?id_product=45 I'll post up how it is when I gett it. Whewww, bloody expensive however, $60!!....

Quote: Originally Posted by kntr Where did you buy it? I think cambria or the bike Co - I don't remember would have to look though some receipts I have purchased a few new bikes for myself and my sons.

Ah ha. If you measure from directly above the headset on the front of the steerer horizontally to the centre of the seat post it measures up fine. If you measure from the centre of the steerer tube to the centre of the seat post ( as per web site diagram ) it measures up a size small.

I measured the eye to eye for you Gripo. The standard eye to eye is 215mm and new measurement, as expected, is now 205mm. I had a 10mm spacer put in the shock. 1/2" is about 12mm, so yes, the eye to eye is less 10mm and the shock shaft is less 10mm, making for around the 120mm rear travel mark (calculated), but all set up and allowing for ruler inaccuracies etc, I seem to hit an actual rear travel number of 116mm. The BB drop was...

Was that the standard smaller volume can?

Quote: Originally Posted by jhill where did you get those bar ends? http://www.purelycustom.com On a lark I asked for them for Christmas and my awesome mother-in-law got them for me along with the chainring bolts. We got the lock clamps elsewhere because purely custom also sells ODI clamps but are a good bit more expensive. The pattern on the bar ends is geckos and I thought it worked well for my Chameleon.

Thanks for the info, I've just been looking at geometry charts for both and it would seem that the shorter shock gets the LT2 pretty close although the BB on a LTst might still be a little higher, but that's ok. LT2 geo> http://www.santacruzbicycles.com/blu...php?geometry=1 4X geo> http://www.santacruzbicycles.com/blu...php?geometry=1 Once xmas/new yr are done I will try and get a hold of a RP23. The closest i2i will be a...

Im sure a lot of people would say its a bad idea but i think it would be awesome!! I have a friend installing them on his banshee rune right now and it has about the same geo as the nomad. There are a ton of new bikes coming out that are really slack trailbikes and i think it will be the trend soon. One thing to consider is your BB height will drop quite a bit. With switching to a zero stack headset and slackening out your bike it will drop it...

Great thread and good replies. Am thinking about the same thing actually so this thread has given me some serious thinking... Want something Nomad ish but not as heavy. The LTc is right up there, so much that i am soo close to pulling the trigger on one and this info has made me even closer. Thanks guys!!