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RICHARD jackson
a Weekend Warrior
from ENGLANDDate Reviewed: October 20, 2000
Strengths: steel frames are the best, the forks are O.K, somehow it came with a Sram 9 mech!Weaknesses: Forks are a little bouncy, the tyres are skinny and the seat is uncomfortable.Bottom Line: I only have this bike as after buying my marin my fisher was stolen and I bought this with the insurance money as a spare and to ride to schoool on. Over time It has grown on me, I took on a ride when my marin's forks were broken on 2.5 foot drop that this bike is fine on and it handled every thing I throw at my £700 marin with the exeption of the skinny tyres causing me to crash while rideing on the steepest, rockyest and rootyest trail I know of in the north downs. I have been saving up to replaice some of the bits on my marin and have even contemplated selling my marin and using the money to upgrade my sunn to a very high spec!
Duration Product Used: 6 months
Price Paid:
$230.00
Purchased At: armstrong bike dock
Similar Products Used: marin quake 7.0, gary fisher pirahna.
Bike Setup: stock
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Chris
a Cross Country Rider
from Belfast UKDate Reviewed: October 11, 2000
Strengths: Top notch steel frame , ie: good clearances, great build quality, strength and superb "feel". If you haven't ridden great steel, you haven't ridden.
Great specification components.Weaknesses: Steel machines can rarely be as light as good light aluminium frames, but that is not a "real" weakness - it's only a comment, I'd rate steel as better personally.Bottom Line: This bike rocks. No other way to say it. There should be a proper entry for this machine but wadda ya gonna do?
Sunn REALLY know how to make steel frames, they've been making great bikes for ages (just look what the pros ride - I mean couriers not racers, racers don't have to live with their bikes, they have mechanics and massages, couriers earn wages riding, and lots ride Sunn). Anyway, I've ridden many, many hardtails in all kinds of metals and I'm a firm fan of top-notch cro-mo. As for the rest of the bike, the Sunn rigid fork is funky for round town, but off-road the french susser they offer is pants. Go Marzo. The Z2 is the perfect match for this bike (F**k the extra few grams over SID or whatever gay ideas come out next), get the fork designed the same way this bike was... for XC riders looking for ultimate QUALITY of manufacture and performance. The original saddle blows bigtime, but seats and pedals are pretty personal. The Syncros stem works ok on the original rigid fork, but change fork and you will need to change stem, kinda dissappointing, but the Syncros stem is nothing like the Syncros seatpost. Syncros seatpost is to die for, Syncros stem is to die using! It looks great on the bike, matching up with the seatpost, but it's the suckiest stem to own with an alu steerer tube fork. Bite it, bin it, buy the right stem, buy something hard like a Stiffy, it also has been a welcome addition to a brilliant bike. Can you tell I'm happy with it yet? Got mine as a last years model for less than 1/2 price, which made it an absolute steal, you couldn't buy the components anywhere for what I paid for the whole sweeeeet bike. At full 1999 price I'd say it was pricey, guess that's why they don't make 'em no more... the market for really great steel hardtails at £1500 a pop (yep) is kinda exclusive, but if you got the wad that's exactly how I'd spend it, so still 5 chilis for value too.
Duration Product Used: 6 months
Similar Products Used: Several mid range Marins in alu, Cannondales, Konas, Scott Superlight (remember them?), Orange E2, and my all time fave... Clockwork Orange (sweeeeeeet).
Bike Setup: NOT A NOTION!!! I am talking about an URGE UN. There's no slot for the Urge so I'm writing it here coz if you wanna hear about Sunn bikes you'll get here!
Anyway I have a 1999 Sunn Urge UN, the old top o' the line steel machine from France. I've added a 1999 Marzo Z2 light, changed the stem for a Profile Stiffy (check out the
reviews, they're right, Syncros stems and alu steerer tubes don't mix, so be prepared to bin the Syncros and choose yourself a new stem), y2k XTR spuds, x-lite mid-length bar ends and a Cateye Cordless 2. Oh, and I changed the saddle for a Flite Ti (natch).
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