Best Mountain bike for £1000?

Have a look on ebay, pinkbike, gumtree etc. and keep an eye out for bargains. You should be able to pick up something with an RRP of £2k and a year or two old for that budget.
 
I was buying my mountain bike for similar money last year. I could have had a niceish mid level hardtail brand new, or just about any type of bike I fancied on pinkbike.

So I bought a 2 year old rocky mountain slayer, 6 inches of travel all round, nice and light, Sram X7 gearing. It is immense, goes up hills fairly well but goes down like a possessed thing, will keep up with most DH bikes. In short its a perfect do it all bike for me. If I was to buy it new I would have cost me nearly 3 times what I paid.

So go have a scour of the classifieds and keep an open mind, then maybe pick out some that your interested in and we can help pick.

edit: it would also be good if you let us know what type of riding you plan on doing, downhill, enduro, trail centres, cross country, cycle to work?
 
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Exactly what Gambisk just said.

I bought this for £825 on the weekend (posted in the big bike thread):

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Full SLX groupset, Elixir 5's, Scandium Frame etc.
 
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The rockrider 9.2 is a very good buy for the money if buying new with a fork lockout on the handlebars which is a godsend. Boardmans are also good value
 
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