Stock lead times of 8-12 weeks I've been seeing!
Out of interest, what sort of riding do you do?
I'm following your
broom bike with interest as I have an old (10yo) halfords special which I'm using until I prove to myself that this isn't a passing interest before I buy something proper, and I keep having to stop myself form buying stuff like pedals and grips because it's probably not going be anywhere near as useful as buying a proper bike! I have many urges to buy bits but fortunately you're doing the same so it quenches my need for upgrades
After brakes, do you think there's anything you'll look to change or will that be 'it'?
Currently I ride with a mate within the local areas consisting of some connecting roads, woodland trails, single track trails and gravel/dirt cutting in and around conversation parks and the local reserve. The reserve is the largest place close to home but all of these are perfect hardtail surfaces really.
For me I was always gonna upgrade bits on the bike as my ability/experience grew, think I said this way back too. The frame is the same as what they use on the higher end models (QR vs thru axle withstanding) so is otherwise modern geometry, it will take a tapered head tube fork so again in future if I wanted an even better fork my option is are there.
As a fairly lightweight hardtail I do like this though, and have no intention of replacing it. The colour theme is what I like especially and cannot get this on any other model so in a way I'm kinda stuck with this, not a bad thing I guess as there are plenty of options to. Plus for the total value/spend on it so far I don't think you can get many bikes out there with the same upgrade components without jumping into the £2000+ range?
After brakes that's more or less it really. No interest in a dropper post, been playing around with fast descents in Alver Valley as they have a number of steep bumpy hills and I have no problem with getting behind and below the seat in its normal position (I am 5ft 8").
Suppose the only thing I might upgrade to in the further future is a wider range 12 speed cassette now that I have the Hope Hub as can simply swap out the freehub body to the XD driver and get the 520% range off the Eagle GX cassette.
but you can't feel it when riding
Oh you can definitely feel pad movement on these. It's not an issue that affects the performance or riding though but is something I've been noticing more and more as riding harder around the same locations now to he point it is just a bit annoying.