Maybe on some of the smoother runs julian. There's certainly things around here that I would not attempt without suspension. As for singlespeeding... it will be interesting to see, given all of the hills around here. I may have to drop the gearing to something like 29:18 (32:18 and 32:16 are fairly typical ss ratios) in order to be able to tackle some of the climbs.

Even with the silly wheels (DH rims, 14g spokes) the bike feels very light to pick up... with some weight reduction (XM317 rims, revolution spokes, etc) it should come in around 8-9kg I reckon (vs about 13 for the full sus)