Fair enough. I may have expanded on you referring to decent. But I still think most underplay the importance of good suspension and it's relative cost compared to shit suspension. It doesn't matter if its small or budget. Suspension is of number importance, or it should be. If you look at budget bikes having damper rod forks vs say the Wrr with upside cartridge forks most consider this decent. But the difference between that and good forks is often the shim stack which isn't a high cost item by any stretch of the imagination. Dollars if anything. The shim stack on the suspension of a wrr is woeful. Sure, if you poodle asking you probably never know it. Leaf springswould be adequate. Thing is you never know what you encounter. Could be a bull dust hole which you can't see. I've seen footage of ridiculous rebound on the shock that cause the rider to get launched over the bars. That's not good enough, even for a budget bike. We should demand better. So when a manufacturer with a pedigree like Honda comes with a "special edition" of a current bike that conjures the idea that it's ready for anything, I don't think that ok, which is what it looks like it is, is good enough.
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