Hi all,

I've been thinking of getting a suspension seatpost for my Giant hardtail. Has anyone tried these? Of course i don't expect it to be like a dual suspension but at least soak up enough bumps to make it more comfortable, esp over rocky stuff. I been looking at the Cane Creek Thudbuster Lt or the U.S.E Sumo XCR. Any comments would be helpful.

So who uses black and who uses gold Shimano SPD cleats? Looks like black comes standard in the box.

Any comments on Gold? Are they good?

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Been developing quite a legion of noobs to MTBing of late and one of them has asked what he should get as his first dual suspension.
I'm some what cringe at the notion that he said he wanted to get one off ebay but it aint my stoush, so i told him to go with a Stumpie over a Giant Trance, both 4 years old.

Question is... is ebay ever a good place to get your first rig? And does anyone wanna offload an old dual suspension rig for around $800?

Ive currently got a dart 3 fork witch is you no what and am very unhappy with it.

Im looking for something smooth, something that takes the small bumps and not just rattle my brain to pieces and also have enough travel to take some bigger ones.

Ive been looking at the rock shox tora 318 u turn and it seems to be what i want, is it any good? Are there any other forks like this i should no of.

And am i better of with coil or air not very sure with that department...

Thanks once again everyone

Jono