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1999 Special Products RSP 250
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Submitted by
Inline Skata
a Cross Country Rider
from Bournemouth, UK
Date Reviewed: January 26, 2007 | | Favorite Trail: | Sea Front | | Duration Product Used: | More than 3 years | | Price Paid: |
$700.00 | | Purchased At: | Can't Remember | | Strengths: | Supermodel looks.
Amazing looking & handling frame. Attention to detail.
Price.
Metalic paint job
The feeling that you're riding something 'Special' | | Weaknesses: | Didn't come with a rear disc brake as standard. | | Bike Setup: | Fly Guy rigid polished-aluminium fork.
XT derailleurs.
On my shopping list - Hollowtech2 chainset, new hydro disc front & rear brakes. Mavic Crossride wheelset | | Bottom Line: | Special !!! | Value Rating: Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
jason chalang
a Weekend Warrior
from UK
Date Reviewed: May 5, 2006 | | Duration Product Used: | More than 3 years | | Price Paid: |
$160.00 | | Strengths: | The frame's strength, the stem, the genuine feeling of control that you get with the Judy's and the feeling you get when you out-race people because their aluminium can't give them the feedback and assurancet that this bike's cromoly does. | | Weaknesses: | Rims needed truing a little too much when you're enjoying the more grey scenery and hitting roadside curbs pretty hard. | | Similar Products Used: | Kona, Kinesis, and a couple of other hardtails that should (according to price and age) be better - but simply are not | | Bike Setup: | Rock Shox Judy C fork; avid fr5, sd5; full 2004 xt drivetrain inc. hubs laced to X517's, and with original R.S.P. stem and seatpost | | Bottom Line: | When you ride this frame, and give it hell, it brings you to earth with ease. It helps you. It talks to you. You might even say it laughs at you, because in so many miles and efforts you've still not managed to break it...
And why not? Because i got it, like all other good things in life, at reasonable cost, and have kept it clean so i can still see my face in the metallic red gleam of the frame between the M and the T of M-Trax where finally the stickers started peeling off. Good eh?
If you want adjustability then take the huge amount of money that the frame saved you in avoiding easton, 6011, 6061, 7005, etc. and all the other alu's, and find sweet-sucking PACE forks from the same age that will sit and make small-talk with the frame whilst on your favourite xc course.
See one, get one- ride with reality | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Daniel Newman
a Weekend Warrior
from England
Date Reviewed: March 5, 2002 | | Favorite Trail: | Hampsterly Forest | | Duration Product Used: | 2 Years | | Price Paid: |
$600.00 | | Purchased At: | Bob trotter cycles | | Strengths: | Good frame but also comes with good components light and good rock shox judy xc s | | Weaknesses: | comes with crap wheels and stem and also the tyres are not wide enough | | Bike Setup: | Judy xc s/d521 on deore disc hubs/sugino mighty 900 crank/avid rear disc and deore front deore and xt | | Bottom Line: | it is a good bike if you put new parts on it because the parts it comes with are not so good | Value Rating: Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
euan
a Cross Country Rider
from edinburgh
Date Reviewed: July 30, 2001 | | Favorite Trail: | glenntress black route | | Duration Product Used: | 1 Year | | Price Paid: |
$635.00 | | Purchased At: | macdonalds cycles, edinburgh | | Strengths: | good frame, suspension, front hydraulic disc brake, drivetrain, rims | | Weaknesses: | crap hubs (although disc compatible), saddle (swapped mine for a flite | | Bottom Line: | good bike for the money - very good even . disc brake is awesome and drivetrain works well. I've had to replace the rear wheel cos I bent the back axle but that's probably cos I landed really heavily on it. Judy XC forks are plush. Again, very good value for money! I'm a happy camper. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Steve Whiteley
a Weekend Warrior
from Surrey, UK
Date Reviewed: September 15, 1999 | | Favorite Trail: |
Surrey, North Downs | | Duration Product Used: |
3 months | | Strengths: |
Well built frame, good drivetrain, brakes, suspension forks. | | Weaknesses: |
Horrible saddle (San Marco Pilot), no rear disc mounts or crudcatcher bosses | | Similar Products Used: |
Giant Alu Boulder Shock, Orange P7 and Gringo, Cannondale F700 SL | | Bike Setup: |
Stock except saddle - now Terry Liberator and Koolstop brake pads. Has LX/XT componentry, Mavic 138 rims - see RSP site for details. | | Bottom Line: | I was looking for my second bike, after a brief honeymoon with the Giant when I got hooked on the sport, but not that bike! I needed a good standover height and long reach to match my physique (if I may call it that!). This suits me in 19 and I am 5'10 with short legs, I also found the geometry of a 19x Orange P7 and a large Cannondale were good too. I chose this as it was a good deal, 20% off at Allenscycles.com, making it half the price of the Cannondale which I would have had, given another £550. I found many of the the components better than the Orange for less cash and the frame has been favourably reviewed. It is serving me very well, I especially like the LX brakes and the XT/LX 27 speed drive train have been trouble free. I am a fairly heavy rider and the bike seems to suit me well, the Judy XC forks having bedded in well. I can ride this miles faster than my first bike, the Giant which was way too heavy and also unstable for me because of its geometry. If you want a comfrtable, fast, tough hardtail, this is recommended and stands comparison with bikes up to about 50% more. | | Overall Rating: |
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