SO,
I'm after something to do the days when I can't be bothered using the FS and just something I can get dirty or use on the road for a pootle out.
I'd like it to be a slackish geometry, not a full on XC race bike. Sub 12kg, although I have a set of Hope/Crests I can fit to take a bit of the excess if wheels are heavy.
I want it to be sub £1000 and have finance options for purchasing.
Thoughts and ideas please ?
Whyte 901? Bit over budget though.
I'm in a similar position, thinking of getting rid of my full suss and going back to a hard tail. Budget is around £800, best options I've found so far are 45650B and Vitus Sentier 275 VR
The vitus was hardtail of the year in MBR, but I'm not convinced by the fork. Good spec otherwise though.
Hmmm.
Why don't you just dispense with this ridiculous charade of maximum budgets - we all know that they gradually creep up until doubled - and just assume that thats where you'll end up.
If I was in the market for a slackish hard tail, then for £265 more than your arbritarily selected figure , [url= http://www.stantonbikes.com/content/slackline-631-available-now ]one of these[/url] would be pretty hard to resist. Slap it on a credit card! You know you want too!! 😀
Stop it binners 👿
Although, I could keep my full suss and just transfer the parts over.
*strokes chin*
Pretty looking thing that Binners... excessive though for my 'spare' or crap bike lol. I'm currently looking way below budget, not above it.
Yes, but I find that your 'other' bike sometimes gets ideas above its station, and in the battle for supremacy in your affections can often topple the dominant one in the man-cave pecking order.
I bought a lower specced hartail to compliment the boingy bike. 2 years later its been upgraded to within an inch of its life, and the previous Alpha Male has rarely seen the light of day
I suspect, looking at that Slackline, that it'd be up for a fight
+1 Once you buy something you inevitably want to upgrade bits and then you can't stop.
s/hand BFe ?
Whyte 901 is only little bit over budget... Or 801. Where are you located?
http://www.on-one.co.uk/i/q/CBOOLURCHX5/on-one-lurcher-sram-x5-mountainbike
Carbon 29" hardtail, X5 gears (though has swapouts so can be converted to singlespeed if you fancy trying it). £999 new and they do finance too
I've built up a ~2010 Boardman frame into a XC machine and turned out it was actually quite good fun. The angles are just slackened off a bit to stop it being too twitchy and racy. Its not a massively strong frame so I'm not gonna chuck it down a DH track but on XC trails it is really good fun.
Assuming the new ones are built with a similar philosophy, which I think they might be as travel went up from 100mm to 120mm they should right up your street.
or as above go for a Stanton Slackline ... they look lovely! and we all know you should buy bikes based on looks!
The slackline is £1,650 though!
NS bikes Eccentric frame from CRC, plus Deore groupo plus spares box finishing kit
Mandatory on-one suggestion:
[url= http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/on-one-parkwood-any-news ]not actually available to buy though[/url]
Bird zero?
Those On-One Deore build 456 Evos are under 1000 and spot on