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"I tested both and chose the Five. It felt a little more responsive, climbed better and I just felt it would be more suited to my style of riding"
What "style" would that be?
just wondering 🙂
Let's put it another way then. I was coming back to MTB after a five year sabbatical and what I wanted was to have as much fun as possible in the hills; small jumps, drops, step technical decents that sort of thing. XC of little interest and as I weigh 15st+ I wanted a strong bike.
The Covert and Five ran a tight race but the Five just felt more nimble and better suited to all day riding... for me. So what Style? That. 😉
im loving my bottlerocket. 150mm 🙂
El guapa has an extra 10% off this weekend - really hard to argue with that.
Meta SX/AM/FR all share the same tubing.
If you've like your mini DH you'll love the new meta. But if your usage is moutain of hell, megavalanche and other long haul down races, I'll personally go for a meta SX or a meta FR (mind you it's only because this one is very very green :D).
Cheers, currently talk to the shop about a build v's standard meta SX, exciting times, test ride at the weekend on a meta am (they had no SX demos) so fingers crossed it lives up to the mini DH memories!
small jumps, drops, step technical decents that sort of thing. XC of little interest
That [i]is[/i] XC. The covert is made for bigger stuff, what you describe is far more suited to the five.
and as I weigh 15st+ I wanted a strong bike.
15st isn't [i]that[/i] heavy. Most XC bikes (like the five) should be able to handle that.
'12 Trek Remedy here. Just done a week in Morzine, which is a rough old place these days, and it was great. With a maxle back end and coil Lyriks it was impressive.
Transition seem to have Turner/Ibis customer service attitudes (ie. will do what they can to look after you).
I can vouch for this. Kevin, Kyle and everyone at TBC are just amazingly nice guys. Their bikes are amazing too - whenever I eventually replace my Bandit, it'll almost certainly be with another Transition.
Canyon have a UK contact nowadays:
0208 501 2582 - Mon-Fri 9-5
Worth a call for a demo i'd say. 🙂
emmodd - Member
'El [s]guapa[/s] Guapo' has an extra 10% off this weekend - really hard to argue with that.This would be my choice for a 'do-it-all' frameset (with CCDBA)if it was my hard-earned on the table.
Second choice Nukeproof Mega.