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[Closed] What hard tail for hardcore trail ripping

 hora
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In the welds? Any crash damage? I thought On On was supposed to err on the side of the customer?


 
Posted : 22/03/2009 9:58 pm
 hora
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geetee I had a ti456- I hated it yet I love the 456 summer season. It feel taut and not noodly.


 
Posted : 22/03/2009 9:59 pm
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To my knowledge and knowing the rider there wasn't any crash damage. All I can be sure about is the frame cracked and had to be repaired elsewhere. The original point that I was trying to make was that you can get a springy feel from any material, its just down to thickness of tubes. As we are all aware the tninner (and more flexible they get) the more fragile they become.


 
Posted : 22/03/2009 10:11 pm
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Hora - sounds good, I will have to check it out. The On One's are such good value that it would be worth getting over my pre-conceptions.

By the way, don't we know each other; aren't you a friend of Martyn Souter's? We did a few rides together, one over Hayfield way the other over in Lancashire? Or was that Binners?


 
Posted : 22/03/2009 10:11 pm
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I am after something similar...I have about £1000.

I have always favoured steel frames befoe like the cindercone but i wondered of alu frames are just as good?

Is Ti worth the extra?


 
Posted : 22/03/2009 10:13 pm
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Nothing else rides like an Alpine in my experience. If you like it, get one because every other hard tail will be a disappointment. For me it has something to do with being a short arse who likes short bikes, but still, they're damn good and I'll never swap it for another hard tail until Mike brings out a Ti version and I win the lottery to afford it and and and and


 
Posted : 22/03/2009 10:14 pm
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geetee1972 I have done, not for a while now though. Probably two years ago the last time? Binners is also a local to these parts - he looks like Kojak, talks with a Liverpudlian accent and smokes (ducks ready for binners ire!).

AW I don't think a Ti is worth the significant extra price over a steel/alu frame. However that scandium On One seems a real steal at the price! For me, the Chameleon is always going to feature around me. Its just 'right'.


 
Posted : 22/03/2009 10:35 pm
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not ridden it, looks ace, i want one

http://www.chainreactioncycles.com/Models.aspx?ModelID=22282


 
Posted : 22/03/2009 10:38 pm
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