Submitted by
treebasher
a Weekend Warrior
from Vancouver Canada
Date Reviewed: 4/4/2008 10:06:06 PM
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| Duration Product Used: |
Less than 1 month |
| Price Paid: |
$3500 |
| Purchased At: |
Rocky Cycle |
| Strengths: |
light frame weight, full seat tube, great front-back balance, incredible traction, pedals incredibly well for FR bike, low centre of gravity, slack HT, easily serviced pivots...and lifetime frame warranty |
| Weaknesses: |
um - it's a very bright yellow. Fox 3.0 comes stock and needs to be replaced to make this a pedal-able. |
| Similar Products Tried: |
04 Trek Fuel, 05 Norco six, 05 GF Kingfisher, 06 Demo 8, 07 Norco Aline PE |
| Bike Setup: |
2008 Frantic 2 with Codes, Totem coil and Fox 5.0 |
| Bottom Line: |
I haven't had this bike long (~ 8 rides), but I wanted to get a review out for others who are looking at this model. I wanted a FR bike that could pedal too, so I sold my beautiful Norco Park Edition. I liked the Frantic better within minutes - it pedals and handles like it's 10 lbs lighter than it is (right at 40 lb now), and by my second ride I was doing all the jumps and drops that I was doing on my DH bikes, and this bike makes them seem easier - I actually overshot several jumps, and this bike even took the flat landings with ease. I'll puke if I read another review with 'it'll eat whatever you throw at it', but this bike is already my all-time favourite. I'm not sure if the Devinci lifetime warranty is a sales pitch because they know that no one keeps a FR or DH bike for very long, or if they're really so certain that few frames will ever break, but this bike really does everything - including pedalling up the hills that I ride down. Having said all that, this is not a X-country bike - don't buy this bike if you're not going to make use of it on drops and steeps and jumps. The perfect use is true free riding, with some DH and AM thrown in. |
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