those boardman full-bounce bikes are ace. (a friends’ friend has one, i’m very impressed)
ignore the badge for a moment, what have you got? – it’s a well specced bike with a strongish/lightweight frame, using a real 4-bar design, and up to date geometry.
what more do you want?
i regret NOT buying one, it’s a bargain.
The frame will be made in Taiwan, in the same factory, by the same highly skilled welders, using the same grade tubing, then undergoing the same heat-treatment process, as almost every other frame you can buy.
now pretend it had an ‘Orange’ sticker on the headtube, or ‘santa cruz’. you wouldn’t even stop to think.
buy one, and with the money you save over an Orange 5, go to Bubion for a week, and Chatel, and Dumfries.
Mountain biking is too expensive, we should be much more excited when we have the chance to buy decent kit for sensible money.
bikes are ace.