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£1500 moon on a stick bike…
lister
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So I might be able to afford an 18 month 0% interest £1.5k bike…here’s what I’d like, can you point me at anything suitable?

It needs to be full suspension, light as possible, pedal well (lock out would be good) but NOT XC specific, I like the laid back angles for the downhills…

Any ideas?

Ta!

Posted 12 years ago

Rorschach
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Next!

Posted 12 years ago

bol
Full Member

Yep. That.

Posted 12 years ago

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sambob
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That one.

Posted 12 years ago

Bregante
Full Member

Can the OP get 18 months interest free at Halfords?

Edit: right bike though

Posted 12 years ago

wors
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zesty 214? 1299 at evans.

Posted 12 years ago

lister
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yep, seen those but wasn’t sure about 0% at Halfords?

Any views on Ghost AMRs? They look bang on spec-wise and sunset do ’em so the finance is possible…might stretch to £1700 for the right bike.

What I’d really like is my 2001 Stinky with about 10lbs shaved off it…fun on the downs, slack but will go up when required.

Posted 12 years ago

moonboy
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have a ghost AMR 7500, bought from the guys at Sunset.

Absolutely love it! If you can stretch you could do worse…

Posted 12 years ago

tum-yeto
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saracen ariel! £1500 and its aimed at going down hills fast……

Posted 12 years ago

nbt
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That boardman loks a very similar design to the roscoe I ride. I’m not as good with bikes as Hora (he’s one of the best mechanics in the world, no-one else I know can tell his forks are faulty) but I like it and it makes me look good. That’s damned hard, I tell you.

Posted 12 years ago

Gribs
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Slightly less money on a low apr credit card and get a Canyon AM? Or just save up for a bit?

Posted 12 years ago

hora
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nbt new 2012 moco and rebound internals fitted. Spec sheet says those would be well over £230+VAT if they weren’t warrantied. 😀

Posted 12 years ago

slowrider
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nbt’s roscoe does look ace, its probably what id pick if i was after a trail bike

Posted 12 years ago

stumpy01
Full Member

Spesh Camber FSR Expert for £1400 & Leisure Lakes do 0% finance.

http://www.leisurelakesbikes.com/product/specializedcamberfsrexpertmountainbike2011-sale.aspx?&id=14781

or from your description, perhaps this would be better, Spesh Pitch:

http://www.leisurelakesbikes.com/product/specializedpitchfsrcompmountainbike2011-sale.aspx?&id=14818

or this Lapierre Zesty for £50 over your budget:

http://www.leisurelakesbikes.com/product/lapierrezesty214allmountainbike2011-sale.aspx?&id=15422

sizes are limited for all of these though: M for both Specialized and “50” for the Lapierre; not sure what that equates to.

Posted 12 years ago

TheFopster
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Had exactly the same dilemma last year. Bought a Zesty 214 in Evans sale at bargain price. Moon and stick present and correct. Seems it’s that time of year again?

http://www.evanscycles.com/products/lapierre/zesty-214-2011-mountain-bike-ec024837

That’s a hundred quid less than last year. Bargain is that’s your sort of bike. And not, if it isn’t…

Posted 12 years ago

Mal-ec
Free Member

If you want a play on the ST4, as a comparison to whatever you can get to test ride, give me a shout.
Whatever you get, be good to get a Brechfa ride in.

Posted 12 years ago

lister
Full Member

Alec, it would be great to get a ride in, how are you fixed for Sundays in December? You’ll probably be waiting at the top of the climbs for me to winch the Stinky up though…email is in my profile.

Posted 12 years ago

cheers_drive
Full Member

Can you not finance using a credit card and keep swapping to O% rates? That would give you more sale options like the crazy CRC clearance prices.
In fact even if you got a £1500 loan for 18 months it may be work out better if the buy cost is less.

Posted 12 years ago

lister
Full Member

oh, and cheers for the advice folks, who makes a roscoe? a name i’ve not heard of before…
Gribs, I wish you hadn’t pointed me at Canyon bikes…they look amazing…hmm low interest credit cards, interesting idea!

Posted 12 years ago

nbt
Full Member

roscoe is gary fisher. now discontinued, trek bought GF and now GF models are all 29ers. Keswick Mountain bikes wereoffering great prices, I heard they bought up all the remaining UK stock to sell off

http://www.keswickbikes.co.uk/acatalog/Gary_Fisher_Roscoe.html

Posted 12 years ago

fazzini
Full Member

On the credit card front – you can get a Tesco Clubcard credit card and you get 15mths interest free on purchases from when you set up the card. Got mine last year, got my boy’s bike on it – just finished paying it off having paid no interest and now its cut up and cancelled!!

Posted 12 years ago