your opinion

Hello,

I have one little "problem" and I hope you can help me.I have 500 euro`s to
spend on my new bike and I am looking for those three models and I cannot
decide so please help me with your suggestions,tnx


http://www.konaworld.com/shopping_ca...6&parentid=253
with deore R/D

http://www.wheelerworldwide.com/pro-39.htm with Shimano brm495 disc brakes

or

http://www.khsbicycles.com/04_alite_1000d_06.htm

I didn`t try neither of this bikes yet but I am lookin for your opinion
which one should I(or sholud you) try first.
TNX

birkes skrev:
I have one little "problem" and I hope you can help me.I have 500 euro`s to
spend on my new bike and I am looking for those three models and I cannot
decide so please help me with your suggestions,tnx

It's not easy suggesting in that price area. Because everywhere you look
there are such big compromises made that I'm afraid most people would
call them 'Piece of crap'. Now you might have months of fun on them on
the gravel but taking alivro, Acera and Tourney - parts on something
taken offroad doesn't sound like a healthy affair. Not only is it heavy,
not precise and not very durable - but it's created just for one
purpose. Beeing cheap.

So my advice to you would be this,

Buy a nice used '04 or '05 model of a model equipped with better parts.
or
Find a model without disc brakes and front suspension but which have
better parts allround. Because the suspension forks on this things does
more negative to the riding than positive - and add costs. And disc
brakes also cost more than they do good when everything else on the bike
is below minimum.

For what it's worth, I bought a bike in '01 that was a '99 model Sintesi
X-Wing. Top specced, here in norway the owner had paid 2,942 euro for it
(gave me the documents on the purchase as proof) and even though he
never got to use it enough to wear off the rubber spokes that's on the
fresh new original tires - he sold it to me for 1,151 euro, including
some barly used shoes for the clip pedals.

So with your 500 Euros I'm sure you can get a lightly used bike that
originally costed the double. But just ask here about the bikes and
people will comment on the quality of the components.

You don't need some 3000 euro machine to have fun. you just need
something that will not break when you put it through some though
terrain. but if you only want to bike around the city trying to look
cool, those bikes still looks too cheap

"Geir Eivind Mork" wrote in message
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birkes skrev:
I have one little "problem" and I hope you can help me.I have 500 euro`s
to spend on my new bike and I am looking for those three models and I
cannot decide so please help me with your suggestions,tnx


So my advice to you would be this,

Buy a nice used '04 or '05 model of a model equipped with better parts.


Yes I know it would be best solution to buy somethig used but I am from
Croatia and one big problem is with stolen bikes.Lots of used bikes you can
find are stolen so it`s a lottery to find a good "legal" bike with all the
papers.But thanks anyway

"birkes" wrote in message
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"Geir Eivind Mork" wrote in message
...
birkes skrev:
I have one little "problem" and I hope you can help me.I have 500 euro`s
to spend on my new bike and I am looking for those three models and I
cannot decide so please help me with your suggestions,tnx


So my advice to you would be this,

Buy a nice used '04 or '05 model of a model equipped with better parts.


Yes I know it would be best solution to buy somethig used but I am from
Croatia and one big problem is with stolen bikes.Lots of used bikes you
can find are stolen so it`s a lottery to find a good "legal" bike with all
the papers.But thanks anyway



unlurk

Hi. My 500 Euros would go on a Claud Butler Cape Wrath
(http://www.falconcycles.co.uk/). Good frameset that will stand a lot of
upgrades before you outgrow it. Rockshox J2 fork: not terribly good but a
lot better than a no name fork, and you can always save for a Pace RC-39.
Drive train is Deore throuhgout with Truvativ 5-D crankset, not World Cup
material but not too shabby at this price, especially given the frameset
quality. Tioga/ Truvativ finishing kit. Lifetime frameset warranty. A disc
version is available for around 140 euros more; whether or not you think a
set of Hayes so1e db's is worth 140 Euros is up to you: the Cape Wrath comes
with Cane Creek Direct Curve V brakes (cf. XT v brakes), so an upgrade to a
low budget, twitchy, low modulation db brakeset is not necessary to my way
of thinking. Better to get out and ride and save for a dual piston open db
system. Bloody good bike for very little money IMHO

/unlurk