DH bike for £1000?

[vrooom]

Is there a such thing? Part may be crap but.. frame/fork itself can be good...?

Any suggestion?

It must be full suspesion, plenty of travels. designed go down the hill or freeride kinds.

[Stedman]

Orange 223, preferably an IBS one. There should be quite a few around now on the forums. Check the 224's aswell. Duno what they're going for now...

[Rico]

No problem getting one for that if you go 2nd hand. Residuals are crap at the best of times.

Look on ebay and also Southerndownhill http://www.southerndownhill.com/forum/index.php/bo...

Just check frame and fork for cracks

[choc]

Either go 2nd hand, or get a new Bighit-1 you know it makes sence!

Edited by choc on Monday 16th June 21:18

[prand]

The Cannondale Prophet was given 10/10 in a recent MBR (I think) review, which would be very good for the money. The frame is very good apparently, but components not amazing, but plenty of scope for later upgrades.

[DarrellHR]

prand said:

The Cannondale Prophet was given 10/10 in a recent MBR (I think) review, which would be very good for the money. The frame is very good apparently, but components not amazing, but plenty of scope for later upgrades.

having ridden a cannondale prophet for some time i can say it was the smoothest bike ive ever ridden. The one thing i had against it was a flimsy rear triangle, but that was soon sorted with a bolt through axel.

[mark.h]

just let a custom 224 go for 1000. it was near mint condition!

[prand]

I've just picked up a copy of What Mountain Bike and they list the following hardtails as best for under £1000:
1 Mongoose Canaan Comp
2 Giant Trance 3
3 Specialized FSR Comp

And two more that are worth mentioning:
Pinnacle Tharpu Peak
Trek Fuel EX 5.5

All worth a look I guess....

[Rico]

Evans Cycles are having a warehouse clearout. Could pick up a bargain there?

http://www.southerndownhill.com/forum/index.php/to...

yeah dates/times are as follows:

9am - 8pm sat 28th june
9am - 6pm sun 29th june
8am - 8pm mon 30th june
8am - 8pm tues 1st july
8am - 8pm wed 2nd july
8am - 8pm thurs 3rd july
8am - 8pm fri 4th july
8am - 8pm sat 5th july
8am - 6pm sun 6th july

and its located: evans cycles gatwick, Camino park, James Watt way, Crawley, RH10 9TZ

[carter711]

You could get an excellent 2nd hand downhill bike for £1k.

5 years ago i bought a Santa Cruz Bullit with White Bros UD180 (upside down) forks, Hope DH4's, Big un' hubs on D321 rims, Mr Dirt C/D etc all very expensive top of the range parts for £1100 all in, the frame and fork alone would have come to over £2k for the first owner. I sold the bike for the same price i bought it for and a BMX my way, another advantage of buying things 2nd hand is having someone else suffer the depreciation for you!
Now there are alot more 'off the peg' DH bikes available which means the price of 2nd hand DH bikes has come down.
Find a bike you like on ebay/SD and make an offer, most of the guys selling are broke students so they will consider low offers.

Happy Hunting

[T5BXR]

What size are you looking for ? Would a Specialised Stumpjumper FSR be of interest,might consider selling (brand new,I've changed over to Sportive Road riding)

[mk1fan]

Alot of suggestions for XC / AM bikes rather than the DH bikes the OP asked for.

2nd hand is your only option for a DH bike at this price. e-Bay and the classifieds are the place to look. There are a few Orange 222's etc... knocking around e-Bay at the moment. Great bikes.

The very nature of the bikes though will mean that they have had a hard life!!