Which new mountain bike should I get

Mark A · 16 Jan 2008 at 23:43

Out of those 2 you'd be better off with the front suspension bike. I personally wouldn't have either but if your getting it free then you may as well. The full suspension bike will weigh a ton and the rubbish suspension will just hinder your ability to ride uphill.

Pants · 16 Jan 2008 at 23:44

Full Sus at this price is junk as said.

Will be stupidly heavy, the rear suspencion will sap any power from the pedal stroke, more to go wrong, etc etc...

Go for the hardtail if you must have one of the two!

badbob · 16 Jan 2008 at 23:48

If £100 is your limit, get this instead of FS/front suspension

"Apollo CX"

benjo plz. · 16 Jan 2008 at 23:48

badbob said:
Nothing wrong with steel frames, my tourer is steel and it's only slightly heavier than my Giant OCR

true, I was commenting on full sussers, esp cheap ones, which when made out of steel make brooklyn big-links and nicolai nucleons seem light as a feather

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Begbie · 16 Jan 2008 at 23:49

Assuming you can only buy from Halfrauds?

no_1_dave · 16 Jan 2008 at 23:51

Begbie said:
Assuming you can only buy from Halfrauds?

Yep

Dogoid · 16 Jan 2008 at 23:56

going by those two choices , id rather spend the 100 quid on crack cocaine and infected hookers ,than to risk my life on either of those tin traps.

walk to work

Begbie · 16 Jan 2008 at 23:57

Dogoid said:
going by those two choices , id rather spend the 100 quid on crack cocaine and infected hookers ,than to risk my life on either of those tin traps.

walk to work

I doubt there that bad, I had a 100quid bike from toys r us years ago and its still going strong.

Slinky1989 · 16 Jan 2008 at 23:58

tbh this is about the best you're gonna get for that price range and for what you're going to use it for: http://www.halfords.com/webapp/wcs/...2394_crumb_33980-33957_parentcategoryrn_82394

Dogoid · 16 Jan 2008 at 23:58

Begbie said:
I doubt there that bad, I had a 100quid bike from toys r us years ago and its still going strong.

ha , its probably still going strong because you still have not used it yet.

badbob · 17 Jan 2008 at 00:00

justinwilkin said:
tbh this is about the best you're gonna get for that price range and for what you're going to use it for: http://www.halfords.com/webapp/wcs/...2394_crumb_33980-33957_parentcategoryrn_82394

No need for suspension at all on a road bike.

benjo plz. · 17 Jan 2008 at 00:02

badbob said:
No need for suspension at all on a road bike.

apparently that's XC :\. The roadies are all out of his price range.

Glaucus · 17 Jan 2008 at 00:05

Phnom_Penh said:
apparently that's XC :\. The roadies are all out of his price range.

clever advertising

it would fall apart at the first sniff of a twig. But that xc is better than the two the op posted.

Slinky1989 · 17 Jan 2008 at 00:05

That's the best he's gonna get in his price range. Shortest suspension possible so it's near enough rigid anyway and all he needs to do is fit some cruising tyres to it such as these: http://www.chainreactioncycles.com/Models.aspx?ModelID=17576 and he's away.

Dingleberry88 · 17 Jan 2008 at 00:08

no_1_dave said:
Work is only 2 miles away, i'm not looking for anything special, just a way to save petrol.

Walk it.

Skully · 17 Jan 2008 at 00:11

I bought a halfords cheap bike to keep me going until I bought something nicer.

Handlebars fell off two days later.

Dogoid · 17 Jan 2008 at 00:13

Skully said:
I bought a halfords cheap bike to keep me going until I bought something nicer.

Handlebars fell off two days later.

haha, can you be more detailed, how did they fall off? must not have been tightened by the key top of headset.

Skully · 17 Jan 2008 at 00:14

Aye it was simple to fix and luckily I wasn't on the road but on dirt path.

It started with them twisting towards me then when I turned they came completely loose, fell off through the clamp thing and dangled down by the wheel!

ALLI · 17 Jan 2008 at 00:16

The Boardman bikes are decent entry level bikes from Halfrauds but don't go full sus for road work.

Steel will be a more comfortable ride and up to 100mm front travel will be more than sufficient.

I ride a rigid Zaskar on the road with P2 forks and it flies, but it's a very stiff, hard ride.

Paul's Cycles have some very good offers on hardtails from 06 if you trawl the site.

Something like this will be superb as an entry into the sport.

http://www.paulscycles.co.uk/products.php?plid=m1b4s2p1264

badbob · 17 Jan 2008 at 00:17

That's pretty common from Halfords, as the bikes are ready packed and only require for the bars to be fitted/tightened up and for the front wheel to be fixed, and the front brake arms to be adjusted.

Bunch of muppets.