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Stones ... he has some

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The Bontrager Mud X is one of the best XC mud tyres I have used. The Bontrager Big Earl 2.5 is great too. Bonty make some great tyres.

Big Earl on front of old Heckler (sniff):
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Just been trying to find reviews of the XR4's but there doesnt appear to be many people with them, but at £36 for both i wasnt going to complain, beats paying near enough £60 for a set, i just never really got on with my Fire Xc's at all, perfect for the road parts but any sort of wet roots or wet mud or really loose surface and they were useless, even in the dry they were skittish, often found myself fighting the front and rear.

Edit// weescott that was a nice looking heckler, what rear did you run on that with the bonty front?
 
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I'm looking for a DH bike, through the C2W scheme and I've a £1000 limit.
My Malt 4 (and My body)can't hack downhills too well.

I was thinking about a KHS Velvet, Steve at KHS is talking to my Halfraunds about costs at the moment.

I'd like bolt through Axels front and rear, and Preferably 160mm of bounce, so its a big ask I think to find anything else.

Anybody else recommend anything else that I could get for £1000
 
That's a budget AM bike and never a DH bike even with the 12mm rear bolt through. I really don't think you need a bolt through rear on a 160mm AM bike. To be some what constructive I would suggest QR rear.

I can't think of anything else for the budget. Anything else true AM/DH is at least double the price or going to be heavily a discounted 08/09 model.

Can you top up your 1k limit?
 
Too many types of bikes for my liking,

I'd like something more downhilly than my Malt 4 with 100mm forks be it a AM or Dh bike. Most of my mates ride at least 140mm full sussers and downhill sections look very very easy in comparision to me getting bounced all over place. :)

There doesn't seam to much out there at all for around the £1000 mark.
The KHS looks like a bargin to me and I was firstly looking at a KHS XCT 555 but its a bit too XC I think.

Not sure about topup as its via Halfords, maybe I've not yet visited them.
 
All your mates bikes are all-mountain or hardcore xc. (They all have air shocks which often have shorter travel then springs and are used because they are lighter)
The KHS XCT 555 would be similar to the bikes they are riding. It's got 140mm travel all round and is marketed as an "extreme xc" bike.

You dont want to be getting a full-on DH bike unless you are riding DH. Any flat bits or climbs and your mates are going to drop you pretty quick on the bikes they are riding.
 
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