Has anyone riden the Foes Inferno? If so what are your thoughts & comments?
Would you want to use it as your main trail bike, or climb 1000' a ride on it? :confused:

It looks cool but I can't see why you would need it. I don't need a 7" travel trail bike. It also depends on the trail. Lots of technical downhills or flowey singletrack with alittle bit of tech dh thrown in? The flowey singeltrack and with some tech dh thrown in is what my SC Heckler is for(5" sherman fork spv w/ 5th element rear shock). I am running on an '04 fly w/888R w/2 rings and I can pedal it uphill and come down just fine.

Rocky Mountain has the Switch and the RMX. The Switch(3 ring) replaced the RM7(3 ring) and the RM7 was changed to the RMX(1 ring). I would look into getting the Inferno if it came with a 1.5 so I could run a Sherman Breakout plus. I wouldn't want to run a 5" travel fork on the Inferno. Sure, I would climb a 1000' since I do it on my Fly.

Yeah, I'm not sure what the niche is for the inferno...there's the FXR, which is the trail riding type bike, then there's the fly, which is the full on freerider, and with the options you have setting up the fly, it doesn't quite make sense. Also the inferno weight is bogus (well, most of foes weights are bogus, their bikes weigh substancially more than they claim), so the hopes of building a sub 30lb 7" bike are pretty low. I guess the point of the inferno is to have a less-full-on DH bike...but the inferno also fits smack dab in the middle of what I call "crappy". Too heavy to ride all day long (like 35lbs is a more resonable build), and not quite a full on DH bike either....not straight up horrible for either, but not exceptionally good. If you were XCing, you'd wish you had a FXR or FXC, and if you were downhilling, you'd wish for the mono. It may not be this black and white, and if you can only have one bike, I guess this would be a canidate (but still, riding your "one bike" with a bunch of XCers is going to suck, no matter what), but I think there are better choices for the "one bike" philosophy...

That said, I just ordered an FXR as my new xc-ish ride. The reason I ride bikes like the fsr or the current saber that I have is that I can climb many many times better on them than I can on a 35-45 pound freeride/whatever rig, and I can descend about 98% as fast. The drop in downhill speed and ability compared to the uphill is extremely lopsided in favor of climbing, vrs downhill. If you are going to go climb a mountain for a downhill run, that is filled with drops and real nasty terrain, then obviously you may want more bike, but traditionally those places are only the most established DH-areas, ski resorts, popular DH runs, etc. This is why I see little use with these kinds of bikes. It gets to the point where the climbing is so crappy, that you might as well just ride a full on DH bike all the time, and at least you'll have the best DH performance possible, because unless you went to a rig that was around 30lbs, you'd have pretty crappy climbing anyway. I'm obviously exaggerating somewhat here, but nothing takes the steam out of you on a long multi-thousand vert ride that is 25+ miles than looking ahead at the guy on the 3" XC bike zipping up the mountain. It is then that you realize no matter how fast you can descend, that you'll never keep up on a pig of a bike, not when a infinitely small reduction in downhill speed would cause a significant increase in your climbing ability or ability to ride the bike all day long.

But it has the cool flames on the seat tower! That has to make it really fast! I agree with JM. It is really inbetween the inbetweens. Not burly enough for any real FR / DH. And a bit heavy and squishy for XC riding.

But it has the cool flames on the seat tower! That has to make it really fast! .....................................
they are not flames......

it is seaweed :D

http://www.foesracing.com/assets/images/supersize/inferno.jpg