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Harvey Cycles
Bennett Gap
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Average Rating
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4.5/5
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# of Reviews
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2
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MSRP
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$ 749.00
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Description:With 6" of rock sucking travel, the Bennett Gap frame can take it if you can; yet it is still agile enough to ride to the top of the gnarlist decent. With reinforced tubing at all the necessary locations, and the Bennette Gap's all day geometry, it is a natural for freeride epics.
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Submitted by
Chris
a Weekend Warrior
from Brevard,NC
Date Reviewed: September 28, 2006 | | Favoriate Trail: | Buckwheat Trail, black mountain, Bennet's Gap, Sycamore Cove | | Duration Product Used: | Tested or demo'ed only | | Price Paid: |
$500.00 | | Purchased At: | Back Country Outdoors | | Strengths: | Floats over technical terrain | | Weaknesses: | heavy. cheap bottom bracket; request and FSA. | | Similar Products Used: | This is the biggest travel bike i've ridden. i ride a trek fuel with three inches of travel | | Bike Setup: | manitou stance fork that's all I can remeber. | | Bottom Line: | I was skeptical of harvey's bikes at first, but i've watched my roommate's go through substantial abuse and take it with ease. He rides hi bikee alot and is a very hard rider. And it has stood up to all thee abuse. I borrowed the bike from him one day and rode Beennet's Gap, the trail the bikee is named after. It climbed well. Not fast bursts of speed like my trek, but slow and steady. it tackled sections of the climb my trak cant handle. The clearence of the bottom bracket height helped, and thee 6" of travel sucked up roots and rocks without much bouncing. I felt like i had alot of control. i feelt very confident on this bike even though i had never riden it. I'm planning on buying one once i get my tax return. this bike is a great value. check it out at harveycycles.com | Value Rating: Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Zach Kuss
a Downhiller
from Brevard
Date Reviewed: June 15, 2005 | | Favoriate Trail: | anything that can possibly be ridden | | Duration Product Used: | Tested or demo'ed only | | Purchased At: | Backcountry Outdoors | | Strengths: | This bike can rip it up on the tech trails of Pisgah...it goes up and down like a mountain goat on crack! Great bike if you like to pin it hard and fast. | | Weaknesses: | Slightly on the heavy side but that can be tweaked and lowered with component swaps! | | Similar Products Used: | Jamis Dakar XLT
Specialized Big Hit
Santa Cruz Bullet | | Bike Setup: | Manitou Swinger, in the rear (lower end)6 plush inches
Manitou Stance, up front with 6 inches
nothing special by way of componentry, set up as a rental. | | Bottom Line: | this is the deal; this bike rips it up. i'm a native rider of Brevard so naturally when i got my hands on this rig i wanted to see just how much abuse this ride could take from some of the gnarliest singletrack i could think of, so naturally i took it all the way to the top of the Black Mountain trail. though it is no XC racer on the climbs, it ascends with realative ease. the descent is where this bike's true beauty shines through...after getting the suspension dialed it flowed over everything I could through at it. i picked out the roughest, most illogical lines possible down and it felt as though I floating on air (even with the lower end suspension)! it carves through the turns like it is on rails and it is a suprisingly nimble feeling and responds with surgical precision. i was so stoked on this ride that i had to take it out for more so i headed to Caney Bottom to see how it handled the roots. just as i would have expected from the Black Mountain ride, i was all smiles...this bike tracked throught the wet rooty terrain with ease and flow like nothing i had ever experienced. i frequent the South Shore in Hickory and Pee Wees bike park in Lincolnton and though i have not taken this ride to those stunted, shore- style trails yet, im confident that it will perform just as well in these environments.
the bottom line is that if you are looking for a bike to throw down some real riding, this is the ride you have been waiting for. it climbs well for a bike with this much travel and can rip through or drop off about anything you experience on your line! this bike dominates on tech singletrack and unless your of the XC racer perssuasion, it deliveres the ride that most soul riders are after! Backcountry Outdoors is a shop by riders for riders. they are not about hype, glamor, and the trends...they are about riding! they are a soul shop if i've ever seen one and their bikes reflect the same passion for the experince of riding as the people that work there. the folks at Backcountry can hook you up with a prebuilt ride or customize it the way you want it for prices that you would be hard pressed to find anywhere else. lifes to short to ride overpriced, overhyped, and over rated, mass produced, corporate bikes...so quit reading this, give the finger to the corporate beast, head on down to Backcountry Outdoors in Brevard, and get a Harvey Cycle and enjoy the ride. tell em Zach sent ya! | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
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