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will nougher
a Weekend Warrior
from Melbourne, Victoria, AustraliaDate Reviewed: May 17, 2004
Strengths: Best frame around, will never break, nice paint thats real hard to scratch, never use shietey square taper cranks they are rubbish and will bend/twist/round out of any gutter.Weaknesses: dont keep it stock,it not to great out of the box. upgrade everything to what i have and you will have the maddest bike ever.Bottom Line: best bike so far. its a do it all strong piece of. can do all them things with confidence and know it will hold up to it. I dirt jump it, down hill, freeride you name bit of all stuff
Favorite Trail: Hurstbridge Melbourne
Duration Product Used: 3 months
Price Paid:
$1200.00
Purchased At: Bike Recycle, Melbourne
Similar Products Used: Avanti Ridgerider, Craftworks slalom pro, Avanti montari disk, Avanti moto, norco VPS team DH, Specialized p.3, etc etc
Bike Setup: Marzochi Bomber z1 2001 20 mm axle, sun single track rims, sunringle hubs, funn bars/stem, fsa pig, hayes cable disks, bmx crank,truvativ chain device, maxxis high rollers, xt derailler, blah blah blah
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Ben Nagle
a Weekend Warrior
from Brisbane, AustraliaDate Reviewed: November 23, 2002
Strengths: Frame is totally overbuilt
Truvativ cranks are tried and true
Suits my kind of ridingWeaknesses: Weighs a ton (but I don't give a s#@t!)
Forks are super soft and I think I busted em on a 12foot drop. Could co with a better chain device.Bottom Line: All up this bike should be plenty tough for the average thrasher. But the main weakness is the forks they suck!
Most of the parts that I have had to upgrade have been after the first month or so which was what I expected. Given that I am only 16 I think that the frame will last for at least a good couple of years. The only thing that robs this bike of 5 and 5 is the fact that the forks are way to soft. I might get some Marzocchi Z3's or DJ1's.
Favorite Trail: National DH Thredbo
Duration Product Used: 6 months
Price Paid:
$700.00
Purchased At: Wynnum Cycles
Similar Products Used: Santa Cruz S8, Orange 222, Norco Sasquatch
Bike Setup: 2.7x26 front, 2.5x24 rear Maxxis High Rollers. Chain device is a 7mm checker-plate home-made MRP job. Rear wheel couldn't hold up so I upgraded to a Dice 24 for the drop-offs. Armor 8inch hydro rear with Hayes rotor and dummy Hayes rotor up front. Shimano 105 deralleur with 12-23 road mech. Azonic bars and stem with Chris King headset.
Built 4 thrashing! Am currently looking for some new forks.
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