Have got till the 24th July to get my voucher, kinda undecided as to what/whether to get another bike, fancy a 29er and maybe something to replace my old Kona ss.
Can you get a Singlular Swift for less than a grand?
Any other recommendations?
You might be about to squeeze a rigid ss swift into a grand. Failing that there's plenty of complete bikes from fisher, kona, voodoo etc.
Have a look on the On One web site!
They have a rigid 29er Scandal for £899 with ave bits and a xt suspension version for a bit more! You could also up grade the forks a later day as an option!
http://www.on-one.co.uk/c/q/bikes/29er-mountain-bikes
Oh! They also have the Reba 29er forks on offer for £299 from £499.
Aye - but no stock till October, someone told me?
I might have heard that they have some more coming in July, although that might have been steel inbred 29ers, I have a 456 and a Pompino so maybe a chance might be nice tho..
Ye! You could be right, but worth a phone call! 😕
Anyone know where their carbon 29er went to?
Don't know, but they still have on in their show room, well they did last week!
I just got a 29er scandal on the C2W, and i am very suprised how much i like it 🙂 for £899 + wheel and brake upgrade, how can you go wrong.
I have started to use it more than my other bikes 🙁 but i have added sus forks to it (from ebay)
Single speed? Aye, tried that, but my 'mountain' biking involves hills.
My recommendation is a Gary Fisher (Now Trek).
http://www.trekbikes.com/uk/en/bikes/mountain/cross_country/29er_race
Some will chip in here with cracked frame stories etc (probably 3 out of thousands but no one reports their frames haven't broken!) but I have a 2010 Paragon running a 120mm fork, I'm over 200lbs kitted up and ride some seriously bouldery trails up here in Scotland and it's been brilliant.
I'll sell you the ss conversion it came with! 🙂
Well worth giving Roger\Dan over @ Head for the Hills a call to see what they can do. If you can provide some of your own components (saddle\seat\bars etc) there's a good chance it'll come in under £1k
Nick, I tried to do exactly the same thing last year.
Unfortunately despite the best efforts of the guys at "Head for the Hills" in Dorking we couldn't quite get a Swift fully built in for under a grand without making some really compromised component choices.
If you're interested I can probably dig out the build specs we developed and mail them to you
Hi CG yeah if you don't mind sending it over that would be good
flything@googlemail.com
YGM 🙂