I also considered the Stanton Sherpa, Cotic Solaris, Chromag Rootdown, and Kona Honzo. There are four complete bike options from too.I was recently on the hunt for an AM hardtail and The Nimble 9 was on my shortlist as was the Nordest Bardino and the Pipedream Moxie. While the price is still high compared to bikes like the Zealous Division or Transition Trans Am, it’s not any more expensive than the 2014 version here despite the added features. It comes in seven different anodised colours and unlike most 29er hardcore hardtails you can get it in small as well as medium, large and extra large sizes. It also gets ISCG mounts and revised chainstay/bottom bracket clearances for universal multi- or single-ring transmission compatibility. The latest production bike also comes with internal routing for Stealth-style dropper posts rather than the loop of flailing cable our first-gen test sample suffered on. If you’re not so good at the hop-and-pop side of things or you often go in too hard and fast to avoid every rock then the back end has clearance for a fat 2.4in tyre without it gumming with grass across the first field. The short back end and reasonable weight make it easy to hop and pop over big stuff rather than dragging behind like a sulky teenager. The taut feedback from the 35mm diameter Ritchey bars meant I could confidently hook and land surprisingly aggressive, inadvisably fast lines on rooty riverside descents where a slip would have meant a swim. The 67-degree head angle (with 140mm fork) throws the front wheel a long way out front for impressively terrain-ignorant stability. The down tube welds on to a large area of the head tube to help increase rigidity The downtube welds on to a large area of the headtube to help increase rigidity: From previous test experience some of the standing softness definitely comes from the scooped arms of the lightweight single-ring Aerozine chainset. The soles of my feet weren’t aching like they do on the stiffest hardtails though, and they still weren’t after walloping that bike down our local bouldery black runs or the off-piste stone steep play woods over on the craggy side of town. Okay, creamy is an exaggeration purely because it rhymed as, even though I tried to keep our heels down, my feet where definitely rammed into the toes of my Five Tens when I slammed on to make the tight turn at the bottom. Even with the Pike fork hammering out a heavy-calibre machine gun rhythm on the front, the Screamy was a lot more creamy than expected. That meant I hit the first long stepped section on our local gorge run with seat slammed and braced for the worst. In other words, it sounds like a recipe for a tight ass-kicking ride – and the fact that Canfield also makes a presumably more ductile and forgiving 4130 cro-mo steel Nimble 9 suggests that even Chris and Lance think the Yelli is a bit on the savage side. The seat tube slants steeply backward from a forward offset footing in a multi-piece cut-and-shut bottom bracket assembly to enable very short 424mm chainstays that butt onto wide-spaced machined terminals for fat rubber clearance. The main frame itself is a mixture of stout round tubes, including an oversized head tube barrel backed up by a very long old-school gusset plate under the throat.
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