Testing the T2T

I haven’t really been riding a hardtail lately cause I am really satisfied with my fully. But in this part of the season (offseason) I like to experiment a little, so I have decided to make some testing on our T2T hardtail, and compare some laptimes on my hometrails to my fully. I tested the T2T almost 2 years ago as a prototype, backthen I was a hardtail puritan, but things have changed. Now it was time to ride the production model, build with the same choice of components as my fully. Off I went, boy this thing accelerated from the parkinglot, but as soon I hit the trail things got a little more shaky… There is no doubt that a ultrastiff and light hardtail like this is the hammer when climbing, but doing sharp turns and descending got pretty freightning. I went home again to change wheels for something more voluminous with bigger knobs to compensate. Things got a little better, and I tried to do a couple of laps on my training course, a typical hardtailcourse. At the end of the day it was time to try and do a couple of fast laptimes, they all ended up in around 17.50. Normally i do around 17.35-17.45 on my fully. Maybe I am not fit anymore, and the fully makes more fun to ride, so next day I hit the same trail with my fully, with 17.35 as a result again. So I am pretty sure what my choice would be. With my fully I can ride smaller tyres, and smaller knobs, which all gives lighter and better accelerating wheels. So overall on a course like this I think I am better off with my fully. I will of course be testing all winter in all conditions to figure out under witch conditions I will ride different setups.