tenacious – as long as the dealer is willing, there’s nothing stopping any independent dealer from ordering you in a frameset and supporting it.
That would be ideal, especially given I have a Silverfish dealer at the end of my street, just note one currently doing Evil.
Already dropped an email to Richie@Silverfish to scope this out.
Sorry I know Doug, it’s me James. Just thought you might want to see it, from what you can tell in the video it seems like they rated the ride very well if not better than the Evil. Which does also look like a great bike, if it holds together. But I don’t want to get into that, it has already been covered.
Their review of the Phantom was also really positive.
Sorry I know Doug, it’s me James. Just thought you might want to see it, from what you can tell in the video it seems like they rated the ride very well if not better than the Evil. Which does also look like a great bike, if it holds together. But I don’t want to get into that, it has already been covered.
Their review of the Phantom was also really positive.
Ha, as you can tell, I’m still procrastinating 😉
I WILL decide this week, assuming I can get an answer on pricing and availability of the Following from Silverfish.
This month, they are shipping to customers in the US already apparently! Black only at first, Orange is a couple of months away.
Still no final UK price though, personally still holding off till I see that before deciding.
Any more news on availability and pricing on this yet? Really got an itch to see one of these in the plastic… got a horrible feeling it could be ‘the one’…!
Yes, frame shock and headset price.
It is pricey yes, though I suppose it’s in the same ballpark as a carbon frame from Santa Cruz, Yeti et al. Certainly a bit more than I’d hoped for myself since the Uprising is (relatively) good value at £2k, and the US price for these is only $100 more.
It’s gotta be said, a full build ’15 Kona Process 111, Pikes, X1, < £3k. How important to you is the carbon?
Or a full lower end build, ’14, less than the price of the Following frame. (The Process 111 frames didn’t change between ’14 and ’15 apart from colour, I checked with Kona on that).
I’m not trying to put you off, I love gorgeous bikes too, but sometimes a reality check is helpful.
Granted the newer Kona bikes are different breed from days of old but some people, myself included, could never bring themselves to own a kona. Im sure Doug is aware of my kona experience but the lack of customer service and warranty was at a level that I doubt many on here would believe.
It’s gotta be said, a full build ’15 Kona Process 111, Pikes, X1, < £3k. How important to you is the carbon?
Carbon is almost entirely unimportant, I’d take an aluminium one given the choice.
As for the Kona, I don’t want one regardless of price. I’ve got several bike build spreadsheets to give me a reality check on cost, and none of them tell me a Kona is a good buy!
I think you miss my point, but anyway, this isn’t a thread about whether I want to buy a Kona or not, it was about the Evil, I was just sharing the pricing info I had as I knew a few on this thread were interested. Whether they feel it is good value to them, and what other bikes they want to benchmark it against is entirely up to them.
