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What dual suspension bike - best bang for buck? (has to be new)

  • 27-07-2011 11:50PM
    #1
    worded
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,908 ✭✭✭


    Ive a hard tail and I want to get a full sus.

    funds limited but ........... could possibly go to 2K

    I need a good one so If Ive to wait and save more so be it.


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  • #2
    Lemag
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,508 ✭✭✭Lemag


    What do you intend to use it for? There are loads on the Canyon site for under 2K. I have a Canyon hardtail which I am really happy with. I also know a guy who has the Nerve XC 6.0 and thinks that it is great.


  • #3
    worded
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,908 ✭✭✭worded


    Lemag wrote: »
    What do you intend to use it for? There are loads on the Canyon site for under 2K. I have a Canyon hardtail which I am really happy with. I also know a guy who has the Nerve XC 6.0 and thinks that it is great.

    General off road mountain biking in forrests etc. My current hard tail is tough going.


  • #4
    Lemag
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,508 ✭✭✭Lemag


    This tool on the Canyon website would probably be of more use to you than I would.


  • #5
    studiorat
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,408 ✭✭✭studiorat


    Trek Fuel might be worth a look, Specialized, Lapierre, Kona all have something in that range.

    You can go for a heavier type long travel, for hard riding, or lighter, shorter travel suspension for trails etc. Either way it's most likely going to be a bit heavier and a bit harder to climb with if that's what you mean by tough going.


  • #6
    julio_iglayzis
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 93 ✭✭julio_iglayzis


    I can vouch for the Trek Fuel Ex 6 anyway, it's fantastic. I paid €1800 for a 2011 model.
    Canyon's are excellent too, however, you could be waiting a long time for delivery if your size isn't in stock.


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  • #7
    Tenzor07
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,862 ✭✭✭Tenzor07


    worded wrote: »
    General off road mountain biking in forrests etc. My current hard tail is tough going.

    Giant Trance (X-3)! If you are buying local...by far the best trail bike you can buy in my opinion...

    if you fancy taking a punt at the internet option then the Canyon Nerve Am would be a good bike for the money..


  • #8
    Ah_go_on
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 144 ✭✭Ah_go_on


    +1 on the canyon. Unbelievable spec for the money


  • #9
    Idleater
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,176 ✭✭✭Idleater


    Would you be interested in second hand? I've an s-works (08) Epic that's not getting the use it deserves so I was considering swapping it for a cheaper hard tail.


  • #10
    Ah_go_on
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 144 ✭✭Ah_go_on


    This is on Bikeradar today, says it all:

    http://www.bikeradar.com/gear/category/bikes/mountain/product/review-canyon-nerve-xc-70-11-40123


  • #11
    studiorat
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,408 ✭✭✭studiorat


    Ah_go_on wrote: »
    This is on Bikeradar today, says it all:

    http://www.bikeradar.com/gear/category/bikes/mountain/product/review-canyon-nerve-xc-70-11-40123

    Good deal alright, and a free torque wrench!


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  • #12
    Lemag
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,508 ✭✭✭Lemag


    For XC usage Nerve MR 8.0, Nerve XC 8.0, Nerve AM 7.0

    For a bit of DH Usage Strive ES 7.0, Torque 6.0, Torque FXR 9.0

    The above are all 2K. Some of them have cheaper options available.

    A shock pump will come with any of the above and a torque wrench as mentioned by studiorat. However the torque wrench is for jobs requiring a 4mm (I think) hex key only.


  • #13
    Ah_go_on
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 144 ✭✭Ah_go_on


    If only Canyon did 29ers..............:(


  • #14
    Tenzor07
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,862 ✭✭✭Tenzor07


    Ah_go_on wrote: »
    If only Canyon did 29ers..............:(

    They have more sense than to do that! :p


  • #15
    Ah_go_on
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 144 ✭✭Ah_go_on


    Don't knock them til u give them a go!! Great for us big fellas:D


  • #16
    Tenzor07
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,862 ✭✭✭Tenzor07


    Ah 29'er have there place...on long fireroad/dual track XC courses you get over in the states...we just dont have enought of the terrain here to justify buying a 29'er with all the short techy singletrack.....that's why the Euro's like Canyon haven't bought into the (American) 29'er craze....


  • #17
    worded
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,908 ✭✭✭worded


    Thanks for the replies ...

    I have a Specialised Rock hopper hard tail at the mo.
    Use of new bike - dual sus - not a lot of down hill. mainly XC.


  • #18
    Lemag
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,508 ✭✭✭Lemag


    worded wrote: »
    Use of new bike - dual sus - not a lot of down hill. mainly XC.
    Go for the Nerve XC 8.0 then and when it arrives stick a post of it up here. I will be quite jealous :)


  • #19
    Lumen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,525 ✭✭✭✭Lumen


    I've seen a lovely full susser Canyon in a sort of light khaki green. I think it was a Nerve, but can't find the colour on their website.


  • #20
    Idleater
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,176 ✭✭✭Idleater


    worded wrote: »
    Use of new bike - dual sus - not a lot of down hill. mainly XC.
    For the same price as the Canyon my Epic is at least 2 kg lighter- carbon frame, Pace fork, XTR crank/SRAM X0 groupset, Hope brakes. Definitely an XC bike - it was Ryan Sherlock's :)


  • #21
    Ah_go_on
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 144 ✭✭Ah_go_on


    Tenzor07 wrote: »
    Ah 29'er have there place...on long fireroad/dual track XC courses you get over in the states...we just dont have enought of the terrain here to justify buying a 29'er with all the short techy singletrack.....that's why the Euro's like Canyon haven't bought into the (American) 29'er craze....

    Did Ballyhoura on one a few weeks ago with a big smile on my face:D. Not great for the tight twisty stuff I agree but big rockgardens are now a piece of p*ss


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  • #22
    Lemag
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,508 ✭✭✭Lemag


    Idleater wrote: »
    For the same price as the Canyon my Epic is at least 2 kg lighter- carbon frame, Pace fork, XTR crank/SRAM X0 groupset, Hope brakes. Definitely an XC bike - it was Ryan Sherlock's :)
    Nice but not very helpful for the OP. Such a bike is likely to cost about triple the his budget. For XC weight matters a fair bit and for the OP's budget they are unlikely to find a new full sus bike within even a Kg of the Canyon which I've posted.


  • #23
    Lumen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,525 ✭✭✭✭Lumen


    Idleater wrote: »
    For the same price as the Canyon my Epic is at least 2 kg lighter- carbon frame, Pace fork, XTR crank/SRAM X0 groupset, Hope brakes. Definitely an XC bike - it was Ryan Sherlock's :)

    I've read horror stories about reliability of the brains on those bikes.


  • #24
    Idleater
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,176 ✭✭✭Idleater


    Idleater wrote: »
    For the same price as the Canyon
    Lemag wrote: »
    Nice but not very helpful for the OP. Such a bike is likely to cost about triple the his budget.
    I should perhaps have been more explicit, I would consider selling my Epic for €2000.

    Re Lumen, all working and serviced but when I was researching it, I thought it was the 06/07 that was fixed for 08. In 09 it went to the through seat tube.


  • #25
    Lemag
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,508 ✭✭✭Lemag


    Idleater wrote: »
    I should perhaps have been more explicit, I would consider selling my Epic for €2000.
    If the size fits it looks like the OP may have found his bike then. Due mostly to my own crapness, I wouldn't dare to take a carbon bike out on the trails.


  • #26
    worded
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,908 ✭✭✭worded


    I will only buy new bikes.
    Still looking.

    If my budget went to 2.5 how much of a better bike would I get?


  • #27
    Lemag
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,508 ✭✭✭Lemag


    worded wrote: »

    If my budget went to 2.5 I bothered to use google how much of a better bike would I my knowledge of componentry get?
    :pac:


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