Evening all.
I’m looking for a cheapish aggro hardtail to charge around on during the gloomy months. Ideally something similar geometry to my 160mm covert and 26″ wheels as I have a garage full of rowdy rubber to use.
Going to run 1 x 10 and a dropper so something that will take that.

Any recommendations from the stw masses?

Cotic Bfe.

http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/fs-reduced-on-one-456-carbon-18

Genesis Alpitude – the last version, the 853 DZB one.

My bikes are a Covert and BFe 🙂

Both run adjustable forks to 150 and ride quite similarly (haven’t had the budget to put bigger forks on the Covert and as no Alps holiday this year I didn’t feel the need)

In the tradition of recommending what you own, how about a Stanton slackline?

+1 slackline

ti456?

Dartmoor Hornet. Excellent ride at an amazing price. Designed to be 26 and 27.5 compatible, so the bb isn’t the highest. Only noticed while pedalling mid-corner though on road links.

A nice Soul on classifieds, not mine

Surge evo nice and cheap on CRC?

PP Shan?

ti456neal – Member
Evening all.
I’m looking for a cheapish aggro hardtail

Candodavid – Member
PP Shan?

PP Shan – cheapish ??

OnOne Fatty !!

Nukeproof Scout if you can find it in stock somewhere.

Or a Slackline 631. Depends on your budget really. For mega cheap look at an old Summer Season (around £75-120 2nd hand). May struggle finding forks unless you’re ok with second hand.

Another vote for the Slackline…love mine. Works a treat with 150mm forks on the front. Since I’ve made it more trail friendly, I seem to ride it all of the time.

I have such a laugh riding it that I haven’t ridden my Banshee Rune since August.

You’ll need to 631 version to get one that it dropper post compatible.

Mmmbop if you like stiff bikes- cheap and great fun, too stiff for my taste but some folks like that.

456 Summer Season. Dirt cheap and my old one was a hell of a fun bike.

In our group there is:

2 SC Chameleon’s, 2 Soul’s and 2 DB Alpine’s.

Obviously the orange DB Alpine is the best one as it is mine…

All great suggestions. Ideally I want a complete bike so I leave my carbon covert complete for using when I like. Don’t mind swapping wheels but anything more just becomes a headache.
The bfe would be top of my list, but i was looking at the nukeproof or bird, both well over 4 figures tho. Not sure how the misses would swallow that this close to Xmas. The £500 fun bike seems rather unlikely it seems….

Just build up a 456 as cheap as you can, they’re great fun and pretty cheap. Think I payed £50 for my steel one and just bought a carbon one to replace it for £100

Bird Zero. The full build is great value for money on the components but it’s not cheap rubbish on there even with the basic spec.

You can go into somewhere like Evans and buy a cheap hard tail but the components are utter garbage and you’ll be replacing them within a month.

Frame build isn’t hard, though have to consider 26 or 650b if swapping stuff about. Though a “cheap” build can end up going a fair way over a grand anyway as I found when I built my c456. Started cheap with spare bits, probably knocking on £2k spent on it now 😀

Or… ride the Covert in the mud. Mountain bikes are actually designed to get dirty 😉 . Just having a pivot or two on it isn’t going to make it melt 😛

Though the real answer is buy a hard tail and ride both all year round.

Aggro hardtail? I’ve been through a lot and would go for DB Alpine every time. For something more all day rideable but still good fun, a Soul. Bfe sits in between them both for me.

Been looking for something similar myself, but I will probably go for a new BFe.
In the meantime i looked at the following
Identity AKA, Cove Stiffee (could only find small sizes new)
Dartmoor look very good vfm.

Oh trust me my covert sees more than its fair share of mud. The carbon one is on its second winter, and the aluminium one I had before had 3 hard winters before it retired. I don’t mind it getting dirty and I love riding it, just wanted a bit of winter fun to hone the skills before next years attack on enduro-land 🙂