YT IZZO Enduro?

YT IZZO, one of the most beautiful mountain bikes out there, while I was looking for something in between my 170mm travel Enduro bike, and my XC bike, here comes the YT sale, after pouring over reviews and pretty much anything about the Izzo I could find, I think this is the perfect (I wish it was slacker) bike, runner up was the Canyon Spectral 125 but it weighs almost as much as my enduro bike. I keep wishy washing back and forth and wait too long and the core 4 izzo sells out :-( still kicking myself over that, so I order the core 3 before it’s sold out also. It arrives and is such a beautiful bike, get it together, set up the suspension and take it up our local riding trails. (Southern Calif. rutted and loose) First impressions are it climbs nice, comfortable, tires sucked (out trails are steep and the Forcasters just don’t have enough braking) the fork was nice but seemed like I was using a lot of the travel quickly, this sent me down the rabbit hole of overforking, turns out people have put 140s and 150s on their Izzo’s, sweet more travel and slacker front end! Count me in! I found a Fox 36 Rhythm take off fork for a bargain and install it, looks sooooooo sweet! Take it out for another ride and, now we’re talking, more stable on the descents and plenty of travel, I now have a total of 4 volume spacers in it and it feels real good. Next, tires, I copied the same tires my Enduro bike has, Maxxis, Assegai 2.50 front and minion 2.40 rear, I love those tires, last was a 203mm rear rotor I added, the 180 was over heating on the steep downhills. So with all those changes the IZZO went from 30.35 lbs to 32.37lbs sad, but worth it for me, so I’m loving how the bike rides, and it looks awesome! Now if I can stop missing the corners and make that darn turn at the bottom of that steep downhill I’ll be set!

[@tomb-rider]

How is the dropper? I demo'd one & the dropper was pretty slow compared to my current oneUp. But I wasn't sure if its normal or just the demo bike.
I really enjoyed the lightweight fun & acceleration to get moving. Im just waiting for the green one to come back in stock.

[@no1cr500racer]

Yes , the dropper isn’t very fast, and not as smooth as some of my other droppers, but it gets the job done, I do really like the bike though, the green one would be my 1st choice as well, but do love the flat black look also:-)

[@JackAcid]

Torn between this or the Jeffsey .

[@no1cr500racer]

That would be a tough choice, for me I already had a enduro bike, my son had a Izzo, he lives in Idaho and the trails he rides are in great condition and the Izzo is more that enough to handle the conditions there. My enduro bike would be overkill for those trails, but where I live (So. Cal) there is a mix of trails, from steep sketchy rutted trails, maintained trails with jumps, and some nice single track, it I had to choose one bike for all my riding, for myself, I would probably pick the Jeffsey, I do like some steep descents here and would appreciate the extra travel and the Jeffsey is a little slacker, there is only a couple pounds difference between the two and I wouldn’t mind the little bit heavier Jeffsey, but that’s just my personal opinion for the area I live and my personal riding style, you really can’t go wrong with either bike, hope that helped :-)

[@MarioXcore1]

dam looks sick! nice

[@no1cr500racer]

Thanks!😁