saracenhavoc
Dirt Disciple
coomber":2eph7ra6 said:Hi chap, theres no nice way to say this, even as a Saracen fan myself, but the Saracen Havoc was a low end bike, when Saracen were going through their leanest spell. One went on ebay recently for £55 which I think is actually a decent price for it.
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Team-Saracen- ... 2568b29517
It has low end parts, isnt and isnt regarded as retro. If you can get £40 for it I'd sell it.
And if it is beloved like you say, for that price, keep it.
Thanks for the response. I appreciate it wasn't a high end bike (cost me £550 before any modifications) but this was the lowest end full sus bike they did at the time - the ebay link you sent was a havoc from a couple of years later and produced as you say 'in their leanest spell' which is nothing like the one I have. It is plastic-ey and the shock is a toysRus special whereas my rear shock works one was fitted on bikes going up to £1100 at the time. The havoc I have is from around 1997/1998 before saracen started making really low end stuff, before the saracen raw etc. came out and mine is from the same year as the rush & addiction, which were both awesome bikes made before saracen IMO started to slide. They did another that year too it was a glass fibre XC URT frame in light blue with air shocks front&rear (@ £3000!) but I cant remember the name of it - its heard finding info on such old bikes!
Think i'm gonna keep it for that money, its not gonna cost much to get the forks serviced and it will be as good as new, although I think there may be some confusion as to what havoc I have as the havoc definitely became a 'toy' bike in the years after I bought mine.
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