Which Mountain Bike

[John Hancock]

Very good frame Dean!

[Mozza]

Beware commencal Dean mate, a mate of mine is bang into his mountain biking and they have had lots of problems with frames cracking, Check the commencal forum to see if thats one of the suspect frames mate!

 

Just a heads up!

[Dean Lofthouse]

Very good frame Dean!

 

Which one John the Zasker ?

[tommer9]

Giant are one of the biggest manufacturers of bikes, they make the excellent Giant, GT and i think they make some trek frames, but am not sure. Thay have also had ties with scott, another excellent make. S-ram is ok as far as i understand.

[John Hancock]

Which one John the Zasker ?

 

The Giant Dean. The Zaskar (made by GT) was a good bike - they made a Ti and a Alu. version many moons ago.

[treesnake]

i think a full sus bike is in deans price range if he is going to buy second hand ! i have raced downhill and recently sold a full on downhill specialized bike on ebay for £600 and the spec was just about as good as they come with over £1000 spent on the bike in the last 6 months , but the frame was a bit old ,

[tommer9]

i think a full sus bike is in deans price range if he is going to buy second hand ! i have raced downhill and recently sold a full on downhill specialized bike on ebay for £600 and the spec was just about as good as they come with over £1000 spent on the bike in the last 6 months , but the frame was a bit old ,

 

Fair point. I dont think that an older frame is necessarily a problem mind, aspecially if it was a good one to start with.

[Leyburn Lad]

I'm after a mountain bike for fitness training for me and the dogs.

 

I've been looking on ebay and want to spend about £400 but there is a vast array of bike and I dont know which is crap and which is good.

 

What I want is something someones spent a fortune on and is selling it on after upgrading or something.

 

The last bike I had stood me at about £2k and sold for about £400 when I had done, I learnt my lesson, let someone else trick the bike up and spend a fortune then buy second hand

 

What make should I put in the search engine to narrow the search down and cut out the crap

 

MERLIN MALT 1 or 4

 

bought myne over 4 yrs ago, brilliant and to top it all there only a cocks stride from you over in LEYLAND PRESTON.

 

you can go get yourself measured for the frame and build to what ever budget you want, but you should get a good hardtail for £600.

 

P.S. if your going to them spend a bit on brakes if going hydraulic.

[High Scale]

What size it it High Scale? Have you heard of Retrobike? www.retrobike.co.uk

 

Good money to be had in old mountain-bikes!

 

Hey cool, my bike did feature in a Total Bike feature when my mate was the editor, I wonder if that would make it more valuable?

[alex_m]

don't buy GT bikes. ever.