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Submitted by
Loi
a Cross Country Rider
from Los Angeles, CA
Date Reviewed: December 12, 2002 | | Duration Product Used: | Less than 1 month | | Price Paid: |
$700.00 | | Purchased At: | EBay Rocks! | | Strengths: | Strong, durable, looks great, GOOD DEAL since no one dares to buy GT anymore. Good for me. Bad for GT. | | Weaknesses: | Cheap ass pedals, deore front derailers, deore shifters. | | Bike Setup: | 2001 GT Ruckus, Marz DJ1, Hayes 8"/6", DEORE/LX/XTR, Salsa Bashring, Syncros DH Bar, Syncros SeatPost, SDG Satellite Saddle, Sun SingleTrack Rims, Sun ZUZU Pedals, Panaracer Fire XC Pro | | Bottom Line: | I barely finished modifying my new Ruckus. Rode it on my local trails three times. Loved every moment of it. With the DJ1, the bike tracks like missile. Just aim and go.
This baby loves air. It is a medium. Slightly large, but I have no complaints. The 2003 Ruckus cannot compare to this one. The components on this baby are all top notched minus the deore, but I am not complaining about them.
The stock components are not bad. I just wanted better hence the upgrade. | Value Rating: Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
a d
a
from norway
Date Reviewed: October 17, 2002 | | Favorite Trail: | sandefjord | | Duration Product Used: | 6 months | | Price Paid: |
$450.00 | | Purchased At: | mx sport lagune parken | | Strengths: | hard stiff frame (somtimes to stiff)
incredeble tires/brakes
| | Weaknesses: | havent found any yet | | Similar Products Used: | sintesi konstriktor
kona cinder cone | | Bike Setup: | ruckus 2.0 RS PSHYLO SL 5" WHITE AVID DISC FRONT XT VEE'S REAR tioga cube 60 yeti dh bar odi lock on lx/xt/xtr mix
syncros 26*14 mrp chainguide tires maxxis high roller 2.5 front tioga xc 1.95rear
| | Bottom Line: | good geometri sleek fast sprinting goes where you point it
stable in the air it get better and better for every ride | Value Rating: Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
RYAN LOGAN
a Downhiller
from big old Frankford ontario
Date Reviewed: October 13, 2002 | | Favorite Trail: | favorite riding: anything! except super duper trials & cross country | | Duration Product Used: | 1 Year | | Price Paid: |
$800.00 | | Purchased At: | steve's licence | | Strengths: | -pretty good angles, beffy too
-good specs
-not that heavy but who realy cares
- good all around bike | | Weaknesses: | -ugly when you first get it
- my rock shox psylo exploded and leaked oil all over
-tires are to skinny, i upgraded to 2.6 kenda kinetics
- the rims are kind of weak, bent mine alot and i am only 115 pounds | | Similar Products Used: | any other decent hard tail frame | | Bike Setup: | 2001 gt ruckus 2.0, 2001 rs psylo xc, truvativ hussefelt cranks, avid mechanical discs,tioga cube stem and syncros bars,2.6 kenda kinetics, odi lock jaw grip, and some other stuff | | Bottom Line: | mountain biking is way to expencive
if you like to ride hard buy this bike
www.geocities.com/flowhome2002/enter
---ryan---
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Submitted by
Eli
a
from Corvallis, OR
Date Reviewed: August 3, 2002 | | Favorite Trail: | no shaved legs allowed | | Duration Product Used: | 6 months | | Price Paid: |
$900.00 | | Purchased At: | Ebay | | Strengths: | Beefy frame, fun geometry, fork is great for urban assault and FR, XTR rear der, Hayes hydros, and badass look. | | Weaknesses: | The stock pedals are a joke, just looking at the rims gives me the sudden urge to shave my legs, put on spandex, and jack my seat way up my ass. Presta valves (need I say more) | | Similar Products Used: | Old GT XC bike of some sort with a Judy XLC and platform pedals. Last straw was when a chainstay bent | | Bike Setup: | Stock except for: BlackSpire bash gaurd, Redline sealed bearing platform pedals, ODI lock-on grips. Sadly still too poor from the original purchase to get new rims, probably will be Sun double wides or mavic 321s eventually | | Bottom Line: | The bike is a very fun ride. Great for urban assault, Freeride, jumping, etc. Good on downhill but obviously doesn't beat a full susp. Not exactly light weight but still isn't too much of a pain to ride up a hill when neccesary. For the most part stock parts are fine. LX is fine for front der (you don't need it much anyway) The wheels are bending on me but surprisingly still somewhat round. I predict future problems with the LX BB and cranks. If you arent a sensi biatch with spandex lint up your ass this would be a great choice for a strong, fun ride. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
vernon
a Weekend Warrior
from Singapore
Date Reviewed: July 24, 2002 | | Duration Product Used: | 6 months | | Strengths: | Burly frame, nice geometry, very nice when built up! | | Weaknesses: | Still trying to determine! | | Bike Setup: | GT Ruckus
XT Discs
Azonic Hotseat
Maxxis 2.5 Swampthing front
Nokian Gazza 2.1 rear tyre
SRAM Rockets
Truvativ Firex cranks
| | Bottom Line: | This is one tough bike that you can also ride leisurely during the weekends. It's heavy, but I don't mind since I'm not into the weight weenie thing.
You can see more of my bike at:
http://www.bikesutra.com | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
RUCKUS!
a Downhiller
from Santa Cruz
Date Reviewed: June 2, 2002 | | Favorite Trail: | Whistler, Northstar | | Duration Product Used: | 3 months | | Price Paid: |
$1100.00 | | Purchased At: | Bike shop | | Strengths: | The frame-it is so strong. Also, the brakes are good. EVERYONE SAYS THE WHEELS SUCK-I HAVE XT DISK HUBS ON WTB LASERDISCS-THERE GOOD Also, unbrakable stem. | | Weaknesses: | LX cranks, bars are too narrow, front deralier | | Bike Setup: | The way it comes hayes brakes, z3 GOOD WHEELS | | Bottom Line: | It is a good bike for urban and drops- ok trilbike, ok climber-Its just fun!
Also, good for whellies
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Submitted by
mbhrdc0re
a Weekend Warrior
from lombard, Illinois
Date Reviewed: March 27, 2002 | | Duration Product Used: | 6 months | | Price Paid: |
$1000.00 | | Strengths: | Well, the bar and stem is not too bad. | | Weaknesses: | Where do I start... Ok, The rear wheel tacoed in a ride. The front snapped in half. The LX BB snapped. The seatpost broke. The front derr. broke. The Freehub blew up. OH YEA, THE CHAINSTAY AND THE SEATSTAY SNAPPED IN 5 MONTHS. | | Bottom Line: | It was a fun bike untill it broke. As long as you dont do too big of drops of very much trials riding you should be fine. After 6 months I am finnaly getting a frame back from pacific, but it a schwinn homegrown. Overall, its decent, but dont break it. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Joe
a Weekend Warrior
from The Boonies, AK, USA
Date Reviewed: February 2, 2002 | | Favorite Trail: | most any | | Duration Product Used: | 3 months | | Price Paid: |
$1000.00 | | Purchased At: | bikesale.com | | Strengths: | beefy frame, good geometry, nice fork, hayes hydraulics, can handle lots of abuse, very smooth, works on everything from drops to XC
Cool stickers | | Weaknesses: | LX cranks (c'mon GT, if you're gonna do splined, do it right!!), GT pedals, seatpost, front deraileur (why even bother?) | | Similar Products Used: | Nothing comparable to this. I had an old Rocky Mountain though...it was a tough chro-mo bike, but not even in the Ruckus's category. | | Bottom Line: | The Bottom line is this is a phat bike. I don't believe you can purchase a better bike for the price. It handles everything nicley on trails, and is very smooth on drops for a hardtail. (It's smooth all the time, sometimes I'm not)
It gives you the feel of a smaller which is nice because that's all I've ridden. The frame is bomb proof, and most of the time it comes home looking better than me.
The LX cranks devoleped the most annoying creek in them on my very first ride on a trail. The front deraileur is kind of pointless for this bike, but GT must have felt a necesstity for it.
Anyway, the pros weigh out the cons and this bike is well worth your $$$$. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Jeromy Hauser
a Downhiller
from Dallas OR America
Date Reviewed: December 5, 2001 | | Favorite Trail: | The ones with sky briges | | Duration Product Used: | Less than 1 month | | Price Paid: |
$1699.00 | | Purchased At: | Santiam bike co. | | Strengths: | Totaly durable.I droped it 12 feet down and it was ok! | | Weaknesses: | Chain poped off a couple of times. But I got a chain guide and now it works like a dream. | | Similar Products Used: | Trek 6500 but it wasn't stiff enouf I felt to much flex in the tail. | | Bike Setup: | I cusomized it. | | Bottom Line: | This bike aint breaking any time soon. Throw it off a cliff it will be alright try it! | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
G_Rock
a Downhiller
from Novar, Ontario, Canada
Date Reviewed: November 7, 2001 | | Favorite Trail: | all urban | | Duration Product Used: | 6 months | | Purchased At: | the best little bike shop | | Strengths: | I bought just the frame, and it is super sick! The C.O.G. is perfect for manualing, and jumping. | | Weaknesses: | the seat tube is to big | | Similar Products Used: | Marin 7.0, Norco 250 | | Bike Setup: | FSA Orbit headset, Ovation Stem and Bars, Magura Julie Disk Brakes, Ovation Hubs, LX Shifter, Sun Mammoth Rims, Maxxis MOFO tires, Rock Shox Psylo XC, Race Face North Shore ISIS, Race Face Prodigy ISIS BB, Blackspire DS-1 Chainguide, Axiom platform pedals, Deore cassette, LX rear derailer | | Bottom Line: | This bike is sick!!! I have a medium frame and it is great, nothing bad to say | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Kid
a Weekend Warrior
from Vancouver
Date Reviewed: October 28, 2001 | | Duration Product Used: | 3 months | | Price Paid: |
$2500.00 | | Purchased At: | Cove | | Strengths: | Super strong frame, good starting parts, jumpable, damn that's a slack head angle | | Weaknesses: | again good starting parts | | Similar Products Used: | Specialized P3B Disc, Cove Stiffee, Rocky Mountain Reaper, etc. | | Bike Setup: | Ruckus 1.0 frame, Stratos S7 fork, DT Onyx DH hubs, Sun Doublewide 24r/26f, Gazzolodi 2.6, Profile cranks, Scandium DH bar, BMW stem and end caps, all 8 speed XTR dirve train, XT Disc 8 inch rotors | | Bottom Line: | This is an awesome bike it can handle anything I've done 27 feet and the bike can handle it though my body can't. I am 190 pounds and this bike feels light even compared to my dads Uzzi SL.
Just go ride.... | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Bones Wareham
a Weekend Warrior
from Dallas , TX United States
Date Reviewed: October 5, 2001 | | Favorite Trail: | horseshoe/bolderpark | | Duration Product Used: | 1 Year | | Price Paid: |
$1400.00 | | Purchased At: | Bikes USA | | Strengths: | Well the frame is imposible to beat. This thing is just bomb proof. Also its geometry- although I am almost 6'4" so one size larger would help during cross country rides with friends, but that is not what this bike is made for. It provides you that BMX feel, and handles great. | | Weaknesses: | Well GT did to this bike what they do best. Make a great frame design and through junk onto it.(Hopefully Trek does not do this with gt's designs). Lets see the seat sucks 5 rides and it was striped. The LX splined cranks suck. If you do not bear down on them with a breaker bar before each ride you won't go far. Also the front derailer come on doere= Junk. OH YEAH the pedals hey GT nobody bought this to ride around the neighborhood. | | Bike Setup: | Went with race face cranks. Changed the seat and ended up(thanks to a machinest friend)freeze plugging it to a perment angle degree. Ended up buying Shimono downhills for the platforms. Also I added a circular saw blade looking chain ring protector, and painted the supports orange to match the stickers. People love it. | | Bottom Line: | This is really a great bike (1.0), after a few changes to the thing you will have one of the strongest rides on the trails. Just test one and you will feel it. Personally I would buy it again and try and upgrade components with the shop. The thing just looks tuff, and the stickers makes everyone laugh, and do hide well in the pictures. If you are in the mood to do some real riding, and are not scared of drops and dirt mounds this is the bike for you. And no matter what others say you can dail the hayse disks in to stop a truck.
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Submitted by
Daniel Mckinnon
a Racer
from Boulder, CO USA
Date Reviewed: September 18, 2001 | | Favorite Trail: | Campus | | Duration Product Used: | Less than 1 month | | Price Paid: |
$1000.00 | | Purchased At: | Bikesale.com | | Bottom Line: | I ended up selling my hodgepodge collectrion of parts on a Ruckus frame and buying a real Ruckus. This thing's sweet. I ride it mostly for UA and a little trials, DH, and XC. I just wish is came with the psylo Tullio instead of the Z3. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Yuri
a Weekend Warrior
from Miami
Date Reviewed: September 10, 2001 | | Favorite Trail: | Markham Park | | Duration Product Used: | 6 months | | Price Paid: |
$1400.00 | | Purchased At: | New from a LBS | | Strengths: | Great all-around package. Forks are great now that I changed the oil and internal damping adjustment. Strong brakes, burly frame and stem. | | Weaknesses: | LX cranks? At least they're splined. The stock rims are extremely weak, I bent them immediately, along with the seat. The pedals are inexcusable junk for this price range. How can you sell $5 pedals along with an XTR derailleur?? | | Similar Products Used: | My other bikes are a Trek 7000, and several BMX bikes. (I am a BMXer) | | Bike Setup: | 10 wt fork oil, stronger seat, Primo sealed pedals, IRC Kujo tires. Coming soon: bars with less sweep, Sun rims. | | Bottom Line: | I think this bike is pretty good out of the box and has a lot of potential. Unfortunately, GT will not get the chance to make it right next year! The bike weighed 31 lbs. the day I got it, and you can feel it riding XC. The geometry is pretty tight so climbing is tough as it unweights the front end VERY easily. The fork is very good for its intended purpose. Now that I have my fork tuned I can blast any jumps I want and never bottom out. The Primo Super Tenderizers were a must-have-immediately, since the bike came with the cheapest pedals GT makes. This bike is a great hardtail descender and a very good jumper.
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Submitted by
Duncan
a Weekend Warrior
from Edinburgh, Scotland
Date Reviewed: September 5, 2001 | | Duration Product Used: | Less than 1 month | | Price Paid: |
$850.00 | | Purchased At: | online BS | | Strengths: | Strong frame, great handling, triple chainrings, eats drops for breakfast, nice! | | Weaknesses: | Crappy wheels I've got a 2.0 dented the rim on my first ride. Psylos- 2000 version have a design flaw. Non-splined cranks | | Bike Setup: | Jnr T's, hope enduro 4 disk | | Bottom Line: | A few early teething problems, dinged rims, leaky disk and loose crank that now sounds nasty. The bike just feels good shame about some of the parts cos as a whole the bikes damn good. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Vernon
a Weekend Warrior
from Singapore
Date Reviewed: August 24, 2001 | | Duration Product Used: | Less than 1 month | | Strengths: | Strong frame, good components | | Weaknesses: | seatpost clamp giving me problems | | Bike Setup: | Ruckus 2.0, grip shift rocket shifters, full XT Discs. | | Bottom Line: | I finally found thie bike after searching long and hard cause it was sold out at my fav LBS. No regrets though, although I an a re-convert from FS to HT. This bike rocks. You can throw any terrain at it and it still conqures it, thanks to its tough frame and good RS Psylo fork. I ditched the Avid disc front and v rear for full XT discs as I would need the stopping power for the terrain I ride. Great stuff GT! | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
IrAoCuMaTa
a
from LiSbOa;pOrTuGaL
Date Reviewed: August 2, 2001 | | Favorite Trail: | eVeRyWhErE | | Duration Product Used: | Tested or demo'ed only | | Purchased At: | - | | Strengths: | -weight
-indestructible frame | | Weaknesses: | --------------------------------------------------------- | | Similar Products Used: | -identity dr.jeckyl
-24 le toy 2
-24 pornking | | Bike Setup: | --------------------------------------------------------- | | Bottom Line: | i've ridden this bike who belongs to a friend of mine but who only brought the frame, so the of his equipment was not the same of the hole bike which people describe here....its very soft to drive in the air and good in jumps...and you don't feel the weight when climbing...a very nice and good bike....if who the money buy the frame because its worth the money..... :P lOsEr :P | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
GHOD
a Downhiller
from victoria
Date Reviewed: July 17, 2001 | | Favorite Trail: | Anywhere I am | | Duration Product Used: | Less than 1 month | | Price Paid: |
$1700.00 | | Purchased At: | local bike store !!!! | | Strengths: | Balance
Strength
Manouverability
Simplicity
Looks
Price | | Weaknesses: | Stock wheels, perhaps should have been bigger and stronger, tires included.
Silly stickers marketing guys. | | Similar Products Used: | GT, Wheeler, Parkpre, Cannondale, Gary Fisher hardtails but recently a giant ac1 and GT Idrive. | | Bike Setup: | 5 inch Z1 fork, Hayes, rhynolites, 2.4 and 2.6 inch tires, THORN RESISTANT TUBES, LX, XT etc DK "IRON CROSS" PEDALS | | Bottom Line: | This bike handles everything I have tried with ease. On my first offroad ride I did more stuff on this than the 6inch travel Giant I just gave up.
I am 6'1" and have a medium ,good size, and the 5 inch fork and 2 inch riser bar would change the geometry from stock but I would try it if you can. The bike is unwaveringly stable in the air and upon landings that I feel like I can do almost anything.
Smooth Bike | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Sean
a Weekend Warrior
from Quesnel
Date Reviewed: July 11, 2001 | | Duration Product Used: | Less than 1 month | | Price Paid: |
$1600.00 | | Purchased At: | gerics cycles | | Strengths: | I have the 2.0, Good frame good breaks, shox, components | | Weaknesses: | heavy......who cares its damn good | | Similar Products Used: | p.3,electro | | Bike Setup: | stock gt ruckus 2.0 | | Bottom Line: | this is a great bike who ever says its crap or not good dosent know anything about the bike. it has good components and a phat stem. i love the tru-vativ firex crank and psylo shox.its a good bike and a good price its prefect for jumping and droping. best bike iv ever owned by far. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Noel
a
from Vancouver, B.C, Canada
Date Reviewed: July 11, 2001 | | Favorite Trail: | All around B.C | | Duration Product Used: | Less than 1 month | | Price Paid: |
$1500.00 | | Purchased At: | Rocky Cycles | | Strengths: | Frame, colour scheme, geometry. | | Weaknesses: | Cranks. | | Similar Products Used: | Specialized P.3 | | Bike Setup: | Standard with FUNN pedals, shorter stem, Downhill seat. | | Bottom Line: | Sort of similar ride of the Specialized P.3 except the triple rings on the cranks make hills easier. In terms of acceleration this is the best bike I've ever ridden. I take drops and launches confidently on this bike. I climbed Grouse mountain 40 minutes in 5th gear without unsaddling so weight is'nt an issue. Wheelies are made easy with this bike but this thing really shines on the downhill. Tires are a little touchy but I'm getting use to them. If you don't like this bike you need to learn to how to ride. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Günter
a Weekend Warrior
from Netherlands
Date Reviewed: July 11, 2001 | | Duration Product Used: | 6 months | | Price Paid: |
$1580.00 | | Purchased At: | Some bikestore, ofcourse | | Strengths: | No coments | | Weaknesses: | Well...it is uglyer than a piece of shoeleather in a camel ass and the breakes feels like insult of this priceclass... | | Similar Products Used: | This bike is impossible to compare whit any other bulls*it made on this planet. | | Bottom Line: | If you got 1600 just lying somwhere under your pillow, you should defenitly by it. If else not. You could get a better bike for 1/10 of this price in your local supermarket. | Value Rating: Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
vicious
a Downhiller
from alberta
Date Reviewed: July 2, 2001 | | Favorite Trail: | all (the faster the better ) | | Duration Product Used: | 6 months | | Price Paid: |
$1700.00 | | Purchased At: | United Cycle | | Strengths: | super strong frame, great brakes (hayes)and nice precise steering from the z3/QR 20. the short chain stays make manuals a breeze and are rock solid on drops plus the 69 degree head angle keeps you from getting bucked. | | Weaknesses: | lame syncros handlebar and thats it. | | Similar Products Used: | gt avalanche le, zaskar x, LTS DH, XCR2000 (freeride model)specialized P3 (borrowed for a few rides) | | Bike Setup: | stock all the way in 1.0 form | | Bottom Line: | as good as a hard core all round hardtail can get, climbs like my hardtail, jumps like the best bmx bikes around is a bit chubby but thats what you need if you go hard and drop big. if you whine about 26lb XC bikes being to heavy then pass in this baby and buy a Zaskar Race (22.3lbs) if you break s**t and want killer handling and durability this is the bike!!!! | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Jóni Bigodes
a
from Faro, south of Portugal
Date Reviewed: June 27, 2001 | | Favorite Trail: | Anywhere where I can go above 50 km/h (I'm european I don't know miles) | | Duration Product Used: | 6 months | | Price Paid: |
$500.00 | | Purchased At: | A shop in town | | Strengths: | I only bought the frame, so I can't speak for the components(though I have the same marzocchi). Great acceleration, nice colour, Stiff as hell, not a super specific dual slalom bike, which is exactly what I want (a multipurpose bike) | | Weaknesses: | The loser sticker, and that yellow ones that make us feel as we don't know how to ride a bike or chance a tire... :P Loser is the one who had the idea of putting them... | | Similar Products Used: | Well, none, I don't own a massive fortune, so I only had two bikes so far... | | Bike Setup: | Marzocchi z3, 2.35 kujos, shimano parts (mainly old xt and lx stuff, the best ever made - nevermind all the 27 speed stuff), club roost. | | Bottom Line: | Bottom line... some say that the bike is heavy... well, it's not intended to be light, is it? End most of all, if you feel it heavy, then you're in need of a bit of gym work...Buy some new craks,chainrings, handlebar and you'll be happy for life. You'll even be happier with this bike that with any woman... It will never ever let you down, see what I mean? Oh, and DON'T buy it if you're afraid of heights............. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Daniel McKinnon
a Cross Country Rider
from Boulder CO USA
Date Reviewed: June 20, 2001 | | Favorite Trail: | Thunder Peak | | Duration Product Used: | Less than 1 month | | Price Paid: |
$500.00 | | Purchased At: | Full Cycle | | Strengths: | The geometry is awesome it puts you right where you want to be. Everyone says it's reallly strong but personally I've never broken a bike frame. I just built the frame up withj parts I had so I can't speak about the components. Cool stickers. | | Weaknesses: | It's sorta heavy but not what everyone claims. You definately need riser bars and/or a short, stumpy stem to get the geometry right. | | Similar Products Used: | Schwinn Homegrown, Specialized Hardrock | | Bike Setup: | Ruckus Frame, Judy C, XT rear and front derailer, Crap shifters and levers, other stuff. | | Bottom Line: | This bike is pretty cool. the main thing I do is cross-country and dirt jumping. It's a lot of fun to ride. I also have a courier job that I ride it for, so I know it can last for a lot of miles. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
dude
a Weekend Warrior
from alberta
Date Reviewed: June 17, 2001 | | Duration Product Used: | 6 months | | Bottom Line: | This bike is ugly, I have the 2.0 and the psylo feels like a pogo stick, go with 1.0, this frame is overkill, GT didnt need to use so much crap at the triple triangle part, it makes it tail heavy for , ahhh screw this im leaving and the ruckus sucks | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
6tewt teyrte
a Racer
from yyyyeryyre
Date Reviewed: June 13, 2001 | | Duration Product Used: | 3 months | | Strengths: | wertdsgf | | Weaknesses: | rqetges | | Similar Products Used: | safrwetfeqw | | Bike Setup: | gdartweqt | | Bottom Line: | sytrwetgewr | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Grisha
a Downhiller
from Izhevsk, Russia
Date Reviewed: May 30, 2001 | | Favorite Trail: | Haven't tried DS, Looks fun (not a name of a trail) | | Duration Product Used: | 3 months | | Price Paid: |
$1200.00 | | Purchased At: | E-Bay (where else?) | | Strengths: | The frame, sick looking stem (bmx) TI railed seat, XTR Rear Deraleur (Sweet), Gazzalodi Dual 2.1, HAYES HYDRAULIC DISKS, got lucky w/ the price | | Weaknesses: | Rims and Hubs suck, LX cranks are not meant for this type of frame. GT seatpost and hub (GT makes this stuff)? Platform pedals are the worst (Also GT). | | Similar Products Used: | a friends p3 (heavy beast) GT Backwoods w/ hi rise Judy XL (now that's a jump bike) | | Bike Setup: | mostly stock except for 24" Sun double wide in the rear along with a 2.6 Nokian Gazzalodi (I just love the way it looks) and Azonic A Frame pedals (they rock). I'm still not finished. | | Bottom Line: | Buy it if:
You want a sick bike (frame) that can do urban, trails and slalom (I do steep descends on slow speeds). And if you are willing to spend about $1000 on upgrades (new wheels, new fork, new cranks).
Don't buy it if:
You are 6ft tall, 120lbs, have 0% body fat, and shave more hair than a swimmer.
Sick frame, geometry is wrong for pro dual slalom (but I already changed that). I hate the wheels, crashed the first time (hard) bent both of them (and broke the needle indicators in shifters, COOL!!) Crashed the second time while doing a wheelie down a bmx landing ramp, tiped over too far back, almosts planted myself on the asphalt. Not a real crash, never let go of the bike, it just bounced on the rear wheel but what did I see? A ôàêèíã BENT REAR RIM!!! Got the Sun DoubleWide 24" and the Gazzalodi 2.6 the next day. You can make the bike lighter and still keep the beefyness. Which is what I'm doing since this bike is not strickly DS or jumper. Four stars because of the weak components (rims, hubs, crank).
Five great things on the bike:
1. The frame, not only tough but cool stickers (where you can't see them from the pictures).
2. Tires (2.1 Gazzalodi).
3. XTR deraileur.
4. Hayes Hydraulic.
5. Z3 QR20 110mm (not that great)
As far as the rest, sell it and buy better components | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
guarionex
a Weekend Warrior
from new york
Date Reviewed: May 29, 2001 | | Duration Product Used: | 6 months | | Price Paid: |
$1540.00 | | Strengths: | THIS IS ONE OF THE STRONGEST FRAMES EVER MADE! | | Weaknesses: | THE COMPLETE BIKE IS PRETTY HEAVY,BUT ITS BOMBPROOF! | | Similar Products Used: | AZONIC,ARROW DSS,SPECIALIZED. | | Bike Setup: | RUCKUS FRAME,RACEFACE CRANKS AND HEADSET,MRP,NOKIAN 2.6F&R,
HAYES HYDRAULIC F&R,HEADLOCK,DX PEDALS AND A HUFFY STICKER! | | Bottom Line: | THIS IS ONE OF THE STRONGEST BIKES YOU CAN EVER BUY
IF YOU WANT A BIKE THAT CAN DO IT ALL SPEND YOUR MONEY ON THIS BIKE! | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
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