Hi all, Need some advice or confirmation that I'm on the right track. So I started cycling last year some time with road cycling and did a couple of races. I did the Argus, the Tour of Durban and a bunch of smaller rides. I did about 1400km of cycling since the beginning of the year so I'm a regular weekend warrior. I've recently started looking at buying a mountain bike and it's a daunting task. It gets very confusing with AM, Enduro, XC, etc and then cross country not actually meaning crossing a country but riding a circular track. So I've done some research and think that a 100mm travel bike will suit the riding I want to do. My reasoning is that I want to be able to climb faster, do longer rides and have an overall lighter bike. I would also want to in future do some stage rides like Sani2C. Now come 6 months down the line and then I decide I like AM or Enduro will this 100mm bike be limited? Cos I've seen some youtube vids of guys going through some rough downhill stuff with just a hardtail. I then decided that I'll get myself the Giant Anthem 27.5 3. Went to a couple of shops and the best deal for this I could get is R23k. The shop will give me the bike plus do a tubeless conversion and throw in some pedals. Not sure which pedals, it's Shimano's at R900. Is this a good deal? and is my reasoning right?
