The uk has for a long time reliably produced hardtails with a different attitude to our european friends with few big hills we focus on the technical ways over the hills with more than our share of bad weather we ride in conditions that seem crazy to some were not alone in this but its shaped hardtail development here for well over a decade but how far to push the limit of hardtail design a hardtail has its own pros and cons go too dh like on the geometry and maybe you lose some of that