£4000 budget advice please

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£4000 budget advice please
adamadey
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Have £4000 budget for a new whip on my return from Kenya in August. Please advise!
Looking at a 27.5″ long travel trail / enduro.
Shortlisted are YT Capra CF Pro Race, Canyon Strive CF Race 8.0 but open to suggestions!
Cheers in advance!

Posted 7 years ago

drovercycles
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Someone will be along soon to say it: Transition Patrol Carbon.

Will be a struggle to match the spec of those direct-to-consumer brands but it’s one I’d have in the mix anyway.

Posted 7 years ago

Pawsy_Bear
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Id look at the second hand market like Pink Bike, more bang for your buck on that budget

Posted 7 years ago

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AlexSimon
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4k gets you pretty much any bike there is.

I wouldn’t have bought mine without riding a few first – to get a feel for what I wanted. Some of them surprised me by being not what I was after at all. Hard to predict.

Posted 7 years ago

drovercycles
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4k gets you pretty much any bike there is.

I wouldn’t have bought mine without riding a few first – to get a feel for what I wanted. Some of them surprised me by being not what I was after at all. Hard to predict.

This is very good advice. Although it’s not hard to spend a lot more than £4. That said there’s not many bikes, if you’re sensible about the spec, which you couldn’t have.

Posted 7 years ago

drovercycles
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it’s not hard to spend a lot more than £4

Obviously it’s not hard to spend more than £4. It’s not that hard to spend more than £4000 either though!

Posted 7 years ago

br
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Demo a few, at places you ride the most (where will this be?).

Posted 7 years ago

TheOtherJamie
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£2850 for last years Strive CF 9.0 and a decent holiday would be my choice.

Posted 7 years ago

P-Jay
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For me it would have to be the 2017 Tracer Expert, in Black.

Won’t be as nice a spec as the YT though.

Posted 7 years ago

Nobeerinthefridge
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Whyte G-160RS.

Lyriks, 170mm reverb in Large and full Eagle groupset. Nom.

And enough left from your budget for a week in the Alps.

Posted 7 years ago

AlexSimon
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For me it would have to be the 2017 Tracer Expert, in Black.

Except that’s £5300!
I’m sure the Foundation would be doable with a little negotiation with a dealer though.

I just find it hard to recommend a specific bike when they are so different to each other. I find bikes so personal that I know that most people’s opinions don’t really fit.

For example, so many of my friends have Santa Cruz and Specialized that I just can’t bring myself to buy one 🙂

Posted 7 years ago

adamadey
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I’m based in North Yorkshire so pretty much all over.
Spend a lot of time up in Dumfries too.
Cheers for the advice! Keep it coming

Posted 7 years ago

P-Jay
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AlexSimon – Member

For me it would have to be the 2017 Tracer Expert, in Black.

Except that’s £5300!
I’m sure the Foundation would be doable with a little negotiation with a dealer though.

I just find it hard to recommend a specific bike when they are so different to each other. I find bikes so personal that I know that most people’s opinions don’t really fit.

For example, so many of my friends have Santa Cruz and Specialized that I just can’t bring myself to by one

Yezus, it doesn’t even come with a proper pair of Lyriks for £5?!

Love a duck.

Posted 7 years ago

AlexSimon
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One thing about YT/Canyon. People I know with them, have had to live without it for a month or 2 while problems are fixed. Dealing with Germany is always going to be more stressful than UK. Communication with those particular companies always seems a bit hit and miss too.

It hasn’t been much of a pain for my fellow riders, because they all have a spare bike, but I don’t.

That’s one of the reasons why I ended up with the Bird Aeris. (Spent £3500 with carbon wheels/cranks/bars). They just seemed like people who would stand right behind the product and feel guilty if I was without my bike for more than a week. Great to deal with and always at the end of the phone/email. As good as as local bike shop, but with direct pricing.

The other reason was that it rode as well as my other frontrunner – the Banshee Spitfire.

Posted 7 years ago

Stevet1
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Is ‘whip’ a new term I have missed?

Posted 7 years ago

patriotpro
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Giant Reign 1. End of.

Posted 7 years ago

dizcostix
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just to throw it out there: Airdrop edit – i love mine. A standard pro build is available at 3k and A conversation with Ed will get you as custom as you like

linky

Posted 7 years ago

submarined
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Buy the Capra Pro, ride it for a few months, affirm your belief that it’s just too short, sell the frame for a grand, then buy the frame you actually wanted in the first place and transfer the bits over, and you’ll get a hell of a bike for your 4k.
Worked for me 🙂

Posted 7 years ago

Nobeerinthefridge
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Dealing with Germany is always going to be more stressful than UK

Not always – Replacement Reverb from Canyon was 10 days. Replacement cracked rear triangle (after 12 weeks riding!!!) from Yeti (despite being bought from a ‘salt-of-the-earf’ lbs) – 12 weeks. The 2nd cracked rear tri took just the same.

Posted 7 years ago

gonzy
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Someone will be along soon to say it: Transition Patrol Carbon.

you’ll really struggle to get one of those for £4k. i saw a brand new unused 2017 carbon patrol with full shimano xt go for £4.2k…a similarly specced 2017 model is going to be way north of your budget.

Giant Reign 1. End of.

i agree but i would say go for the reign advanced 1…the rrp is £4250 but if you’re buying as a cash purchase then you’ll be getting it for less than your budget

Posted 7 years ago

PimpmasterJazz
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£4k? Something that won’t be ‘updated’ in 6 months.

Edit: you know what? After my recent experience buying a Bird, I’d buy another Bird. Great folk to deal with, great product, great VFM, not attached to the annual change sales model. Ticks all my boxes.

A friend’s buying a Cotic based on a similar experience, just further north.

Posted 7 years ago