What i'm actually thinking of doing is buying a mongoose meteore team hardtail as a donor bike, and shifting all the components to a superlight frame (it comes with an RP23 shock anyway). Done the math n it'll still work out cheaper than the GT, plus i'll be left with a spare hardtail frame should i ever feel the need to build it up, or i can try sell it... This sound logical...? The GT is one helluva sexy bike tho, and i do quite like my Shimano over SRAM...
