Kind words indeed chaps - thank you.
It was a beautful bike - wish I still owned it. Only thing was you could (thunk) always feel (thunk) and even hear the (thunk) rear shock topping back out as it (thunk) rebounded.
And no I wasn't too light/ heavy for it. Played around with what option there was for elastomers/ springs and couldn't get it to go quiet/ smooth.
Plus side was a stunningly quick accellerating machine on fluid trails. Admitedly more on the flatish than up hills, it was a bit quirmy up hills. But so nicley made. Still wish I had it, but couldn't justify an XLM as well.
It went to the west country I seem to remember. Can't be that many around as it was the last year they made Echo's and the only year they had the sloping geometry. Bet it's the only one in the UK or something. :roll: