Sadly, same here. It was my first full-suspension bike, and it just didn't deliver on what I was looking for from such a bike. Amusingly, that niche is now filled by a modified K2/Proflex 4000 and maybe more appropriately by an '03 Intense Tracer. I'm a big ProFlex fan, though...it's tough to pass up $50 856 frames when they pop up on Craigslist, because they do make for fun bikes.