He’s got £500 to spend on something good for S.Wales trail centres etc. Any ideas guys?

Carrera fury, yes it’s from hellfrauds, but on paper it’s probably the best specced new £500 bike there is.

Secondhand…Get a Inbred full build or something similar for £500 off classifieds or fleabay

This from Merlin…

Spesh Hardrock?

The Hardrock is well underspecced compared to a Fury, dart forks & 24spd, compared to tora’s & 27spd

Merlin linky no worky, so can’t compare

Er What from Merlin Teeto please???

Er What from Merlin Teeto please???

http://www.merlincycles.co.uk/?fn=product&productId=1108&categoryId=129

dart forks are crap – they lock out in anything less than 7 deg C

Nice Commencal but he’s 6 ft tall and they only have xs an s left! (Sorry maybe I should have mentioned his height before!) – Seems to be a lot of sale bikes left in small or womens’ -funny that!

http://www.paulscycles.co.uk could be worth a trawl through as there has been good bargains to be had in the past

Cheers Nukey that’s much more like it (Zaskar team for myself maybe!)

The Carrera Fury’s s***-hot, better than some bikes I’ve ridden costing twice as much. Bit lardy is all, but you get a Tora 318 fork, decent SRAM and Truvativ drivetrain, Mavic 317s, and the rest of the finishing kit is all decent enough. Put it this way, I’ve ridden my mate’s a lot and if I’d got one of those in the first place, I’d not have bought my Soul- it’s not as good, but it’s good enough that I wouldn’t have looked for anything else.

If you don’t like it being Halfords, you can always buy a cheap Inbred frame and swap all the parts, it’ll still be better value than pretty much anything else at the price. Worth waiting and seeing if there’s another discount on the way, they were down to £370 at one point.

HOw about adding a ton and buying a Core 20 for £599?

Second the Commencal Normal or Genesis Core, very good vfm this year.

Fury’s a good bike I had one, good spec, sold it to my mate and he loves it too.

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Good Advice Fellas, thanks for all help!

Can he do Cycle2Work, whole lot of other options for the same total outlay.