Thank you Brex for the extensive reply! My auto-correct stepped in. My Sniper is now 120/120 after the summer (Formula 33/DPS), but honestly, I don't feel much of a difference from the 120/100 mm. Unfortunately, I am on the medium size so I cannot easily fit two bottles in. The Carbonda can potentially fit two with a special bottle holder.

I might have been unlucky with the problems or just abuse the bike too much (tough I am below 65 kg). I have not seen many people with the same type of problems on the Sniper...

Could you also please describe a bit more what feels worse on the Carbonda bike? Does the bike go through the travel too quick and/or is not supple enough. Does it wobbles too much on the climbs, has worse traction? Any subjective or objective inputs are very welcome.

To what I can see from the sparse pictures of the rear end, the hanger looks like it is attached by a small bolt, but I it mostly guessing. Could you please (or someone else) comment on that?

And my first question still holds: Does someone knows if the Slack-R would fit in the frame?

I really appreciate your help! Tomas

My Sniper is not set up as 120/120mm bike. However, there are quite some annoying things I don't like about it and I experienced quite some failures too.
1) The upper rocker bearings got loose several time in the carbon - I am rather tired of replacing the ling or gluing the bearings in.
2) The spacing of the lower rocker link is bigger than the width of the frame and resulted in a failure of the aluminum bolts. I used a spacer which probably resolved the problem.
3) The carbon link with even with the cross brace is not stiff enough - this results into side forces on the shock - my DPS failed last year (the inner axle snapped in halve).
4) The reach is a bit on the short side with the 120 mm fork and the head angle is not slack enough.
5) The frame does not fit too bottles - the additional bottle on the bottom of the front triangle is a very bad solution.
6) The derailleur hanger is not easily replaceable without tools which is a big problem for long bike packing races. 

All these things make me to think Carbonda can be a better and safer fit. Could you please elaborate on the setup you got on both bikes? Was the suspension the same (shock/fork)? How about the wheels and cockpit? What was the main difference you noticed?

Hello everyone

I made it through the full topic, and find the Carbonda frame very tempting. It would offer a better fit to my needs than my current Intense Sniper XC. I really like the 120/120 mm option, longer reach and the potential fit of two bottles in the front triangle. My only concern is that the HA would be too steep in the 120/120 mm configuration.

Did anyone try to slacken the HA using the 9point8 Slack-R? Would it fit the frame or will the cables entering the frame block the cups? Over-forking is not an option as it would serve as a marathon/bike-packing race bike and so I need to keep the weight low.