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Rocky Mountain
2000 Vapor
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Submitted by
Grant
a Cross Country Rider
from Calgary, Alberta, CANADA
Date Reviewed: September 26, 2001 | | Favorite Trail: | Any trail in Kananaskis Country | | Duration Product Used: | 3 months | | Purchased At: | The Bike Shop | | Strengths: | This bike has a great frame, lightweight, right geometry for me. The gripshift is great, smooth and reliable. Good, solid bike. It helps that I picked it up barely used after it was upgraded with Atom 80 forks, XTR brakes, Shimano 515 pedals. I also swapped in an Easton straight bar and a Specialized saddle. | | Weaknesses: | Low riser bar. Selle Italia stock saddle was not anatomically friendly. | | Similar Products Used: | Specialized Hardrock Comp | | Bike Setup: | Michelin Wildgripper tires. Marzocchi Z2 Atom 80. XTR brakes. SRAM gripshifter with SRAM rear derailler and LX front derailler. | | Bottom Line: | A great bike. Not made anymore, but still a great bike to buy if you can find one in someone's inventory or used. You don't need more bike than this to get into riding XC. I recommend this bike for anyone wanting a lightweight yet solid bike for riding trails, singletrack, or even beginner or sport class racing. | Value Rating: Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Tim Larson
a Cross Country Rider
from Tacoma, WA, U.S.
Date Reviewed: February 6, 2001 | | Favorite Trail: | trails on Mt. Rainier | | Duration Product Used: | 2 Years | | Price Paid: |
$900.00 | | Purchased At: | Tacoma MTB shop | | Strengths: | Foolproof frame, very strong, very light, no flex. Good shocks for the money, a little soft in my opinion but I upgraded to sid race's anyways. Excellent derailleurs. Do 4 ft.+ drops all the time, no crank bends, warps or cracks. Excellent cranks. Crisp shifters. Rims could be better but again I put rhyno lites on before I bought it, so no problem there. Allaround excellent bike. Sram derailleur works better with grip shifts than my Shimano XTR did with rapidfires on my old sasquatch. | | Weaknesses: | Yellow shocks and blue/white frame kinda clash, but the sid race shocks i put on are silver and look great. | | Similar Products Used: | '99 BMW (brooklyn machine works, frame snapped in a week), '98 Kona Blast, lots of road bikes. | | Bike Setup: | Sid Race fork, sram 9.0 rear derailleur, lx up front. Sun rhyno lites for rims. Panaracer tires front/back. | | Bottom Line: | Great bike, especially for the money. I've been very pleased with canadian bikes. But the new norco line isn't made with the easton tubing, which is what gives rockey mountain's bikes such an edge. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Jonathan Jackson
a Weekend Warrior
from TN
Date Reviewed: November 21, 2000 | | Favorite Trail: | Technical Ones | | Duration Product Used: | Less than 1 month | | Price Paid: |
$534.00 | | Purchased At: | River City Bicycles | | Strengths: | Nice solid frame, good fork, components | | Weaknesses: | None yet | | Bike Setup: | Stock | | Bottom Line: | This is a great bike. I had been looking for a nice hardtail with some good components on it for a long time. I was about to buy a 2001 Norco but I'm glad I got this bike instead. It is my new love. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Harry Johnson
a Cross Country Rider
from Gary, Indiana, U.S.A.
Date Reviewed: May 5, 2000 | | Favorite Trail: | badland stretch | | Duration Product Used: | 3 months | | Strengths: | Nice Canadian frame, decent brakes + shifters, very nice LX and sram 9.0 derailleurs, and a very smooth judy fork. | | Weaknesses: | None so far | | Similar Products Used: | Norco Charger,Brodie 3X5, Kona muni mula | | Bike Setup: | Sram brakes, shifters, 9.0 derailleur, shimano lx front derailleur. Good cranks and pretty good tires (for stock) | | Bottom Line: | Good allaround bike, better rims couldn't hurt, but no other problems. WAY better than my p.o.s. charger, the seatpost kept snapping under my enormous weight. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Steven
a Cross Country Rider
from Comox Bc Canda
Date Reviewed: May 5, 2000 | | Favorite Trail: | All Over | | Duration Product Used: | Tested or demo'ed only | | Strengths: | I don't have one but am commenting on my friends. This bike is a solid well built machine. Anyone looking 4 a new beginner bike this is the one. The shocks are great the frame is strong the components are good ( personnaly I would use shimano ). | | Weaknesses: | Not much but the stock tires. | | Similar Products Used: | Mongoose Zero-G SX, Kona Cindercone, Kona ManoMano, Devinci Magma, Marin East Peak, Kona Stinky, Rocky Mountain Spice, Rm6 and Hammer Race. | | Bike Setup: | Totaly stock! | | Bottom Line: | A great bike not too much to ask and all around a strong piece of metal. Not may people unless hard-core would not like this bike!! | Value Rating: Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Robin Maxted
a Weekend Warrior
from Comox, B.C., CANADA
Date Reviewed: May 5, 2000 | | Favorite Trail: | various routes | | Duration Product Used: | Less than 1 month | | Strengths: | GOOD frame, (top of line in aluminum), GOOD sram components,
VERY light bike, VERY smooth, plush shocks, and decent tires. | | Weaknesses: | Other than the colour contrast between the fork and the frame, the bike has no apparent flaws. Except for FAT people, with the initials J.D. who write posts on bikes they don't own, wish they didn't waste their money on a crappy-ass norco, and wish they spent their rent money on their OWN computer, instead of using someone elses to write a review on a bike that they can't afford. Stupid people like him "john mc kinna" a.k.a. JAMES DENT, a fat kid from b.c., well let's just say if you are considering this bike, do NOT pay attention to his post. p.s. (he rides a hunk of crap ccm bike, I ride a vapour, which cost more than his house) | | Similar Products Used: | Norco Bigfoot, Asama Compact | | Bike Setup: | Judy xc fork, sram components. (WHICH ARE GOOD, AND BETTER THAN THOSE FOUND ON A CCM CLIFFRUNNER, OR A NORCO CHARGER) | | Bottom Line: | If people who don't own bikes didn't write reviews on them, maybe this website could help more people. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
john mc kinna
a Cross Country Rider
from vancouver,bc,canada
Date Reviewed: May 4, 2000 | | Favorite Trail: | flying circus | | Duration Product Used: | 3 months | | Strengths: | light,good brake response | | Weaknesses: | un solid,horrible shifting,weak frame,very weak rims,cheap hubs | | Similar Products Used: | no other bike that expensive and low quality | | Bike Setup: | sram components,judy shocks | | Bottom Line: | this bike is over priced sram does'nt provide good parts for their 7.0 and 9.0 top of the line crud/ you should not buy this bike unless you are 60 year old granny looking for a expensive peice of garden decoration.The only thing I like on my bike is the paint job. | Value Rating: Overall Rating: |
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