Submitted by
Jason King
a Weekend Warrior
from Sydney, NSW, Australia Date Reviewed: August 26, 2002
Favorite Trail:
Oxford Falls - pick one
Duration Product Used:
2 Years
Price Paid:
$1000.00
Purchased At:
Le Spit Cyclery
Strengths:
Light, good balance, excellent reliability
Weaknesses:
Disc brakes, Mongoose grips
Bike Setup:
standard except grips
Bottom Line:
Had an incident involving a straight set of five flights of stairs coming down from the Sydney Harbour Bridge a while ago - I put it down to me being lazy and not adjusting the disc brakes in as they had worn.
After the hospital, crutches and physiotherapy I'm riding again and have had a complete front brake calliper failure. Squeeze the trigger and the anodised lever on the calliper jumps over some internal notch and the cable goes slack.
Convinced now that the original problem was this same problem. This time it happened on the dirt - much softer to land on than concrete - no broken hip this time.
WARNING: great bike, but everyone replace their brakes!
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Submitted by
acid
a Weekend Warrior
from Singapore Date Reviewed: June 11, 2000
Favorite Trail:
Bt Timah, Pulau Ubin
Duration Product Used:
3 months
Strengths:
light frame with some pretty good stuff. not too expensive either. climbs very well and is very responsive.
Weaknesses:
the bloody disc brakes(formula md-1)!!!
Similar Products Used:
klein attitude
Bike Setup:
race face cranks, avid arch supreme, mavic 517 and xtr hubs.
Bottom Line:
great bike overall but as u can see, i changed most of the factory assembled parts. nice to ride straight outta the box but remember, get rid of the disc brakes !!!!!!!
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