How long did it take after you ordered for your frame to ship? I ordered on Dec. 29th and am still waiting…

As for suspension, I think you’ll really like a Topaz with this bike. The ability to fine tune the very bottom and very top of the travel via the positive and negative spacers, plus being able to tune damper support (bladder pressure) separately from the air spring should be perfect for a bike with kinematics like this. I’m expecting to put 2-3 spacers in the positive to compensate for the regressive dip after 140mm of travel, and zero in the negative since the rest of the travel is nicely progressive. Bladder pressure should be able to stay low (175-180 I’d guess) since leverage is reasonable and the linkage has good anti-squat.

I’ll definitely be posting updates to those thoughts when I can actually test the bike out, but it’s going to be a slow build process so that might be a couple of months away.

I’m also going to test out over-stroking the frame, as I got a 205x65 Topaz. If 163mm travel is too much and the seat stay bridge hits the seat tube, I have a 2.5mm travel spacer to cut that to 156. Figured folks here will be interested to know how that works out.

I ordered my frame on the 23rd of Dec and an hour after I sent my previous message the frame tuned up! Mine was shipped with WXY international express.

I originally thought about putting 3 spacers in the negative to begin with so its good you are thinking the same thing, will play about with setting once I get the bike out on the trails. I quickly put my fork, shock and wheels on the bike today and did have a look at to see how close the seat bridge gets the the seat tube when bottomed out as I over stroked my last frame and did think it might be possible on this but I think 65mm will be to much and 62.5mm might be possible but will be close.

That should even work with a OneUp V2 210mm.

If my diagram is correct, you'll have about 330mm of space between saddle clamp and seat clamp. The 210mm OneUp V2 will stick out about 60mm and has a stack height of 33mm, so 320 - 60 - 33 = 227mm possible dropper travel. The OneUp is pretty compact though, so a different brand might give you a lot less.

Thanks for the help! I am looking at the PMW loam dropper that has a full insertion length of 290mm and 200mm of drop and I'm pretty sure it would just about be the right. I did the dropper size calculator on there website and it says 200mm drop will work but will hold out till I have the frame just to double check, the weather is Scotland is pretty bad for a few more months so in no rush to build up the frame and want everything to be spot on! Will be ordering the frame on Monday and very excited to get it.

Will keep everyone on here updated on the build 

Looking to buy my first Chinese frame and 99% sure I'm going to buy FM1002 in XL, I was wondering if anyone knew what the biggest dropper you could fit? would love to get 200mm drop but would still be happy with 180/175mm. Any help would be appreciated!