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Who Makes the "High-End", "Top Shelf" FS Mountain Bike Frames?
I am depressed. Once again, my frame has broken. I can't take the down
time. I am (was) riding a full suspension frame with a classic four-bar linkage. I was fairly satisfied my frameset, but this weekend I met a rider on a four-bar frame made by Titus, the Racer X. From a distance, the configuration of this frame looks just like mine; however, closeup, it makes my frame look like it came out of a Cracker Jack box! I was so impressed with the construction details of the Titus frame, it is obvious that the mechanical design and fabrication are at a much higher standard than the mass produced framesets. The failures that I have experienced with my frame (and the excessive "slop" in the suspension) would never occur with the Titus frameset. My question: Who's on the short list of manufacturers making the highest quality, technically outstanding FS MTB framesets? |
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Who Makes the "High-End", "Top Shelf" FS Mountain Bike Frames?
"HKEK" wrote in message ... I am depressed. Once again, my frame has broken. I can't take the down time. I am (was) riding a full suspension frame with a classic four-bar linkage. I was fairly satisfied my frameset, but this weekend I met a rider on a four-bar frame made by Titus, the Racer X. From a distance, the configuration of this frame looks just like mine; however, closeup, it makes my frame look like it came out of a Cracker Jack box! I was so impressed with the construction details of the Titus frame, it is obvious that the mechanical design and fabrication are at a much higher standard than the mass produced framesets. The failures that I have experienced with my frame (and the excessive "slop" in the suspension) would never occur with the Titus frameset. My question: Who's on the short list of manufacturers making the highest quality, technically outstanding FS MTB framesets? Turner. |
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Who Makes the "High-End", "Top Shelf" FS Mountain Bike Frames?
My question: Who's on the short list of manufacturers making the
highest quality, technically outstanding FS MTB framesets? Titus are pretty good and they are friendly to deal with. My wife rides a Racer-X and loves it. http://user.tninet.se/~ipg289h/fu99/...unsenled1b.JPG I ride Switchblade. It is a splendid trail bike. Don´t think there are any better today. http://user.tninet.se/~ipg289h/fu99/...Lunseled3e.JPG Ellsworths are said to be good but their customer support has shortcomings. Some reports on Intense warrantries are also worrying. Otherwise their new Spider appears to be terrific. The new Santa Cruz Blur could also be intersting, as well as some other SC bikes, particularly the SL. Ventana is another top maker. Though you might ask it is as good as the fourbar bikes with horst links. Giant is also intersting. Has really competitive pricing. Per |
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Who Makes the "High-End", "Top Shelf" FS Mountain Bike Frames?
"HKEK" wrote in message ... My question: Who's on the short list of manufacturers making the highest quality, technically outstanding FS MTB framesets? Turner, Titus, Ventana |
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Who Makes the "High-End", "Top Shelf" FS Mountain Bike Frames?
"HKEK" wrote in message ... My question: Who's on the short list of manufacturers making the highest quality, technically outstanding FS MTB framesets? I think it would depend somewhat on what kind of riding you're doing (shocker). For lightweight XC, the Tomac Revolver Ti, Intense Spider, and to a lesser extent the SC Blur, Titus Racer-X, Turner Burner, and the Moots Smoothie all rule ass. MBaction magazine will tell you the Fuel 100 is the quintessential FS XCer...I hate that bike personally. If you want to roll the dice on an Ellsworth Truth, that's a good frame too. Cannondale waterbrains would be screaming Scalpel right about now, but they can shove it. Right up their bums. Cdale sucks. Real hard. For a heavier-duty bike (about 5 inches of travel, you can smack it around) look at Foes FXRs, Intense Uzzis, Titus 5Spot, Ellswoth ID (spin the wheel of destiny), Titus Loco or Quasi Motos, and the Titus Switchblade are all top-shelf longer-than-XC-travel bikes. Ventana gets wanked prety hard around here (probably because JD gave it his seal of approval) but unless you're a Klyde, the framsets are a little heavy and _probably_ overbuilt. Not that there's anything wrong with that, but a sub-200 lb. rider can do a lot better for himself IMO. There's a lot that I missed - these are all that quickly came to mind - but if you're spending over 1k U.S. on a frame it'd be hard to find a piece of crap. Chris |
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Who Makes the "High-End", "Top Shelf" FS Mountain Bike Frames?
"Chris" wrote in message news:hP3Na.24104 Ventana gets wanked prety hard around here (probably because JD gave it his seal of approval) but unless you're a Klyde, the framsets are a little heavy and _probably_ overbuilt. The reason I "wank" Ventana pretty hard is I made the mistake of buying one and now I have to justify my purchase. Gary in VA (yeah right) (and there's a problem with it being overbuilt?) |
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Litespeed left the custom bike market
Oh, wasn't aware of that. We still have frames in the bike shop... they
must be from last year. Realised it because we had planned to buy two Pisgah frames to use for travel, mixing singletrack with riding on road between places with good singletrack. Seems not even Colorado Cyclist sells just frames this year. So, we did not buy Pisgahs, instead we choose to hang BOBs on our hardtails. Per http://user.tninet.se/~ipg289h/fu99/MTB.html |
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