Morewood shova lt or Morewood mbuzi?

[Carel22]

What is the best bike between the Morewood Shova lt and the Morewood Mbuzi? I mostly ride in Stellenbosch.

[BaGearA]

Shova

[popcorn_skollie]

They're 2 very different bikes. The LT is the long travel version of the original Shova or Shova ST (short travel). I might have my numbers out slightly but from what I remember.

 

Shova ST (Short travel) - 140mm rear travel

Mbuzi - 160mm rear travel

Shova LT (Long travel) - 180mm rear travel

Makulu - 200mm rear travel

 

give or take a few loose mm here and there but you get the idea.

 

The LT was touted as a freeride bike back in the day.

Intended for use with single crown 180mm forks. 

Don't see those around anymore.

And no...modern 180mm super enduro's just aren't the same.

It was a dog to climb but it would get the job done after a few heart attacks.

If you didn't have a Makulu. Nothing stopped you from slapping on 

a full 200mm dual crown and sledding it down only.

Now that I think about it.

I've seen more LT's with boxxers than totems.

Funny how life turns out.

 

So...its not really a case of which bike is better.

Its kinda like asking which is better between an orange and a naartjie.

It would boil down to intended purpose and personal preferance

[Eddy Gordo]

Have to agree, depends on what you want to do with the bike.

If you wanna ride trails, enduro, someDH then the Mbuzi.

Mbuzi is basically a do it all bike.

Otherwise if you speaking strictly gravity then go for the longer travel Shova 

[Carel22]

Thanks for the info, think I will go for the mbuzi.