i posted a reply in the other area as well, but thoght i'd add it again here. i love my little juli. she's so fun. she makes me a much better rider. she climbs really well, is super smooth, and relatively light considering i have some old banger heavy parts from my old hardtail filling some gaps on her now.

what do i like? the smoothness, the climbing ability, the way i can pop off of little (and i mean little...i'm too chicken for the big ones) features and over logs and such. the way my group of riding guys has been saying "wow, you've really been keeping up lately..." and the relatively high BB height.

dislikes? not many. i'm 5'3'', ride a medium and have absolutely no clearance, but that's my parent's fault (damn short leg genes!! ), not the bike's. hehehe.

good luck! never ridden the racer X, but everyone here raves about 'em, and everyone here is smaht, so they must be good.