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new full suspension under €2K

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    #32
    Lawdie
    Registered Users Posts: 863 ✭✭✭Lawdie


    I'm not going to post a lot of usual questions. And apart the obvious MTB, what are you looking for in a bike? Can you give some background and usage profile for you?


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    #33
    Popoutman
    Registered Users Posts: 1,363 ✭✭✭Popoutman


    Tenzor07 wrote: »
    Right we for starters, why do you think you need 160mm of travel, this is Ireland not the Alps!
    ;) I love my 160mm/180mm travel bike for Ballyhoura! I spent two years on a hardtail, then a year on a 130mm/150mm Reign until that was nicked, and the ReignX I have now I use everywhere from Mont Pleny Black runs in the Alps through to riverbank cycling here in Limerick. I find that there is nothing that it isn't suitable for except for racing, and I don't race so that's not much of an issue for me. I'd say that if the OP finds a design that works for them, at a price they like, then they should not rule out the newer enduro designs as they are closest to "jack of all trades/master of some" amongst the current bike designs.
    Tenzor07 wrote: »
    The Vitus has a better fork, and the suspension design looks like a Trek design with its 4 bar linkage.. Though i would say you'll wear through those pivot bearings every month!
    That Vitus frame is a single-pivot design - not a four-bar link. The rear axle is on the strut that is connected to the frame, so will ever only move in a semi-circle around the front bottom pivot. To be a true four bar link, the axle would have to have a pivot between itself and the pivots on the frame on each side.


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    #34
    rab!dmonkey
    Registered Users Posts: 629 ✭✭✭rab!dmonkey


    Popoutman wrote: »
    That Vitus frame is a single-pivot design - not a four-bar link. The rear axle is on the strut that is connected to the frame, so will ever only move in a semi-circle around the front bottom pivot. To be a true four bar link, the axle would have to have a pivot between itself and the pivots on the frame on each side.
    Leaving aside your poor understanding of what a four-bar link is, the Sommet is not a (linkage-actuated) single-pivot frame. The frame member the wheel is mounted to is not directly attached to the front triangle. Even if it were a single-pivot design, it would not have enough travel to allow the wheel to move through a semi-circle. A 'true' four bar link must have four bodies joined in a closed loop - that is all.

    Additionally, it doesn't look or function anything like any design Trek currently markets.


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    #35
    [Deleted User]
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    Ended up getting the Canyon Nerve Al+ 7...outstanding bike! Cruises over and through anything.


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