If you were to buy a modern bike what would you choose?

[Agency_Scum]

Good question! I'm XC/trail so...

BUDGET: any £300 Trek

MIDRANGE: an SLX equipped secondhand Pugsley.

LOTTERY: ti 23" Robin Mather to a Kona geometry. XTR discs, Marzocchi coil and oil forks, 1X10 SLX drivetrain, Ultegra thumbshifter, ti fork for winter.

 

[yo-eddy]

Rohloff powered FAT bike

 

[FluffyChicken]

I did and I bought my 1997 Kona, rides pretty well.


If you had to push me into this sites categories... Then a 1998 DeKerf

 

[madjh]

A yeti arc and a rocky mountain element or etsx (last model with rear aluminium), I love RM geometry

 

[T'boo Ted]

But they don't make ARCs anymore...
I was thinking about this when GT refused to sell me a 26in new Xizang. Looked at Seven and IF, but i think a Dean Colonel X-lite 26er would fit the bill.

 

[oldave]

That "Rohloff powered FAT bike" would do for me, actually. But I wouldn't be able to use it as it so obviously deserves!

 

[raidan73]

I think if someone pointed a gun to my head and said you must decide NOW I would probably go for a Ti Implant. If I had a chance to think about it I may choose otherwise but I certainly wouldn't be having one of the modern hydroformed bouncy bikes that all look the same.

 

[MisterGrizzly]

Well... If anyone knows Father Christmas's REAL address...

Could you get him to sort me out one of these.....?!

I've been a REALLY good boy of course

 

[grahame]

Breezer Lightning
End of thread.

 

[minor_LEGEND]

I quite like the Genesis steel hardtails, they remind of how MTB's used to be.