Transition Bottlerocket Sale!

i want a PrestonFR, too bad im in europe and i need a Large size...oh well..

i got my doubel for 1500 with shock,frame, and a brand new argyle 318

We'll this is going to make it a bit harder to sell my bottle rocket..

Here's a fully built baby blue Transition Bottle Rocket for only $2599. From a reputable local bike shop in Thunder Bay, ON...check it out.
http://www.pinkbike.com/buysell/521419/
http://rollinthunder.ca/

What you dont understand is its 1199 for a taiwanese bike that rides like a dream.
If you were to compare it to your bike you just might change your mind.
What the hell do you mean by off the shelf?　That makes no sence to me.

he's just jealous he's not riding one!

obviously never swung his leg over a transition

or any taiwanese frame over a grand (so almost ANY frame over a grand), clearly he just never spends decent money on a bike

I think you'll find he builds his own frames and that they're sweet as f*ck!


He spends lots of decent money and time on bikes.

transition is off the hook. they're some of the most burly bikes out there if not the most.
transition can be quite pricey but if you're looking for a bike to last, they're the way to go.

im not knockin transition frames or asian producers, they've got fine craftsmen like any others, i just meant they just be makin reeeeaaal good money on their frames if $1199 is on special. still, it is a business i suppose, and the point is to make money...

calm yoursef snotty one. one day you'll have to learn that other people have opinions unlike your own, and your rubish opinions are no more valid than theirs. i never said transition aint ok, i just said they were expensive. but they are just that; ok. there aint nothin special about them, they do the job, thats about it. hence me sayin they're a bit expensive. get over yourself.

after looking at you file I relized that you have a different outlook on bikes.
beings that you produce your own bikes I can understand what you were saying in your first comment.very cool bikes from what I see.
By the way your dual sus dj bike looks great.
I have seen it before on mtbr.com and think its wonderful.
keep doing what your doing and dont worry about what other people say.
Its just I have been on my bottlerocket for 3years now and thats a first for me.
every other bike has broken in the past and usually under 2years.
so for me the bottlerocket was a great deal that has out paid it self.
ride on..

Seriously you don't know shit about prices of producing bikes on taiwan. Quality factories cost a bit. Also do you think that the profit the company makes from a frame = price of the frame - cost to make the frame? That is really silly.

LOL i like how u assume the country of origin is the only way to judge a bike. To bad thoes workers have 100 times the experance welding bikes u have. u should prob check where your tubes where manufactured if u are soooo concerned about forign manufacturing. u might be surprised. the Internation market for bikes has changed a bit in the past decade, their quality control mesures are just as high as any other manufactuing facilities in the rest of the world. and about transition making a profit, DUH wtf do you think people run business for? this is comical how you have such a narrow minded view being a frame builder yourself.

hahaha i think you gotta learn to read man. here's my previous comment-
"im not knockin transition frames or asian producers, they've got fine craftsmen like any others...it is a business i suppose, and the point is to make money"
haha pwned

pwnd nothing, you back tracked your comment to make yourself look better. u obviously don't know shit about how business operate or the costs associated with doing international business. Shipping? taxes? storage? tariffs? more shipping, more storage, more shipping just to scratch the surface. just look how much time u put into designing and producing your own single frame, how much did your mats cost and how much did u want people to pay? just like u the guys at transition deserve to make some money they are the ones putting their asses on the line to make that business work. EVERY RETAIL market has markup get use to it. there would be no motivation to do business without profit.

hahahaha i reaaally really love how passionate you are about this man, i really do, its entertaining me no end...especially seeing as all i actually said was that they are a bit pricey for what you get. i backtracked my comment to make you look bad seeing as you cant seem to read

Chilllllllll out.

haha, indeed

The problem he and I have with this comment is that how are they pricey? At a discount you can get a quality frame and shock that has no known issues from a company that's know for great cs. Also ~1000 is one of the lowest in the industry and the standard price is still in the lows so if you say they are pricey for what you get you must be suggesting they are worse than other similarly priced frames... Besides the bling factor what other frames have that transition doesnt? Well in that case they are pricey only for parking lot riders I don't care how much bling I get as long as my bike rides good and doesn't completely look like shit.

I was at the Rocky Mountain Facility in Delta where they are handmaking the 2010 Flatline WC's and was talking to their master welder. He said that the quality of bikes coming from taiwan is INSANELY good and that the welds are like art. It costs less and sure they aren't built one by one but the quality is WAAAY better then any bike built more than five years ago, regardless of where it was built.

Zackmorris- when talking about foriegn wages you have to take into account a countries satandard of living, quality of life, inflation rate and cost of living. yes to us someone being paid a dollar an hour seems extremely unfair yet you have to thinkn of what one canadian dollar can buy in tiawan compared to here, and i guarantee you its a lot more. And as for foriegn trade do you have any idea how screwed every counrty would be with out it? most third world countnries would be even worse off because the couldnt seel anything they have because there woulod be no factories to pay workers wages if every one is a producer no one can be a consumer. In canada we would have hardley anything because two of our major exports oil/ gas and softwood lumber would no longer have a market, and you wouldnt have your computer to make ignorant comments on pinkbike with. and as for your AIDS comment check your source(WIKIPEDIA DOSENT COUNT) i dont think anyone would try and find people willing to be infected with AIDS that dosent make any sense when there are already millions of people in our world infected with epidemic that would gladly volunteer to try and be cure.

ignorance?Many of my statements support many of the comments you have pointed out. As for the whole Aids thing I am sorry to tell you it is the truth. Wikipedia does not tell you everything..sometimes you have to do a little more research then that. As for global trade it has not done such positive things for our economy. Our lumber is sold to the state's, made into products and sold back to us for more. Our country has been taken advantage of...we've been pimped out and sold out. The Obama administration has or wants to put a ban on the Alberta tar sands because they do want to support industries that destroy the environment. Freetrade has really messed a bunch of things up for us here which I really dont want to get into. The effects of global trade on the environment is just insane! As for being paid a dollar an hour, I realize the cost of living here is higher but come on buddy you really think a welder in China lives like a welder here...hell no. This is not the proper place to talk about this stuff I was just trying to make a point on how consumers benefit from products made over sea's...so I dont see how you came up with some of your comments. Last thing buddy, try not to be such a kunt. If you would take your time and read what I've written you would realize you are arguing with me about things I have not even written. Reminds me of a funny pictures someone posted on the net titled "e thug, cause talking sh!t in person is dangerous"

Forgot one thing. The Aids thing is for a vaccine not a cure. They told people to go have unprotected sex with the vaccine already injected to see how it works. With any vaccine or cure there were people used for testing of course. In the past military personal and war prisoners were used but to the public's knowledge this practice is not used anymore.

here is just one of the many articles
http://news.aol.com/health/article/new-aids-vaccine/684837 for anyone interested. Rampagerider101 feel free to take a read, you might learn something.
If anyone is ignorant, it looks to me that this would be you.

take that back...

take that back. RIGHT NOW.

Serious, take it back dude!

i like my bikes and beer cheap!
gimme a pabst beeotch! NOW DAMMIT!

its unfortunate that foreign workers do not make the same as us here in Canada, but they are happy to have a job and some form of income. The wages they earn are represented from a poor corrupted government systems.I'm not sure if you are aware but in Thailand they found a vaccine for HIV that works 30% of the time. They had 10 000 people sign up as test puppies knowing the dangers associated with being infected. The people were promised the latest in treatments if infected. My point is that life in some of these countries is so bad that people will sign up for death to prolong their life or help their family. I am totally against worldwide trade for a number of reasons but in some ways it does benefit us all.

aids? wtf does that have to do with bikes?
lets be less sensational OK?

was just trying to make a point on how we benefit from products made in developing countries from low salaries..was a response to a comment left above regarding human rights...my aids comment was just an example of how people are happy to have an opportunity to make money in some way or another...

dude... you realize any kid thinking of maybe buying a transition bike is thinking THANKYOU CALGARYCYCLE for making an advertisement where i can see it letting me know about your sales and promoting your deals!!! just because you dont want to see this... why did you click on it? i think the title's pretty clear... rant over

they should pay for advertising space, not get an article posted.
this isnt interesting to the majority of PB users and its not developing the site/mtb community.
PB shouldnt allow this kind of blatent free marketing

the-biking-whyking : You say that as if there are kids who are thinking of buying a bottlerocket. I mean, who would want one of those?

Thats a pretty valid point - advertising space would be more appropriate for listing sale items. But hey, CC is in fairly tight with Pinkbike, so I guess they lucked out.

dabomb, good point, i guess they probably shouldve just went with normal ad's, but i'll tell you that if i owned a company and was offered free advertising, i would take it

they did redesign the bottlerocket. If its the same as the ones from the picture then they are last years models. So they should really be cheaper then this since its an older design. just some company trying to clear out old product for big money.

the 951? that things a turd on wheels! and its worth a fuc*ing mint too
you rich? good. go ahead and waste your money. those bikes are for rich fat people.
stuff your math

dont you ride a shocker?

Hahaha well said stryke! I Think it looks cool but thats about it! I mean i raced one on my commencal supreme 2, Yes the shit spec one, and i just left him for dead. I gather It has the ability to take medium sized drops pretty well. But im sorry i come across loads more bearms jumps and rock gardens in british riding spots! For that reason you would be stupid to take this over a supreme or sx trail. You're going to have less fun for sure.

thats the most ridiculous justification for how a bike rides than i've ever heard . you raced one? you mean you weren't even on the bike but you want to judge your commencal was faster?
you don't realize that sounds retarded?
you didn't notice that a shocker won the us open last year?
you haven't noticed that in whistler theres a lot of shockers, riding every day for years on end. because they last.
commencals are a one season bike bud.
wise up

just so you know, all the guys who rode intense 951's, for intense.
swapped back to their m6's, for lots of reasons, but cracking was a big one. except palmer because he gets paid big money to do what intense wants him to.

do you not think shockers a ridden alot because they're canadian?

no its because its a sick bike. why do you think it beat sam hill in the us open. because it sucks?
give your head a shake

didnt sam hill crash in the us open?

shockers are rather average bikes bro

stryke is owning bigtard!

even if he did crash, which i don't think he did, because he still got second. stevie beat everyone on a shocker.
by the way doesn't every french person own a commencal just because they're french, or andoran. whatever the difference.
we don't ride those bikes in canada because they're shit.

Wouldn't that indicate the quality of the RIDER regardless of the bike he is on? Stuff your logic... BTW I'm french and I don't own a Commencal. How does that compute?

Are you sure you're french? real french? or french canadian
I agree with you completely. but stryke and gritstone aren't as smart
My point is the shocker rides good, and its solid. they hardly ever break.
there's a lot of bikes out there that ride good, but suck for other reasons
Commencals don't hold up here, i'm sure they ride good though
Intenses break all the time and the service is shit
Giants don't break much, service is awesome but they don't ride that good
Sundays were the bomb as long as you had the new pivots on them, but if not they were turds
don't shit talk the shocker, its pointless

sam hill crashed in the world champs in 08 and got 3rd,

if i enter a race on a cheap bike from the supermarket and make sure everyone gets puntures on their race run and win does that make the bike great? no

the shocker is average, the 951 is probably above par (if you dont weigh too much) where are all the shockers on the wc circuit if they're so incredible? didnt stevie ditch cove and switch to evil!? oh the drama continues

and shockers hardly ever break? was it 07 or 08 where they lightened the swingarm and it started cracking? but lets not bring that up now~

buddy, the swingarm has never been a real problem on a shocker, unless you're bottoming out you're bike too much which is a set up issue.

the original front ends used to crack a lot. but that was in 05, long time past

you go and buy a 951, crack it and see how much fun you have trying to get service

and seriously, the world cup is all about money, that's why people ride the bikes they ride. they don't have to worry about real world problems.

but if you think a shockers average go ahead and think that.
i've ridden a lot of bikes, the shocker is one of the few worth buying.
and as much as you'd like to think i'm a tool, i know how a bike should ride. how long have you been paying shit loads of money for you stuff?
I don't

world cup is all about money? your whole post went to shit as soon as you said this

i dont pay for my bikes either, we're so cool right?

seriously, you guys can't make sense of anything anyone says on here. people don't choose the bikes they ride when they're pro sponsored world cup. they ride for who will pay them well and take care of them.
you don't pay for your bikes? what do your parents buy them?

Coves are overpriced garbage. Give any pro rider a bike and they will do well. 99% of it is rider skill and talent. Palmer proved that back in the day when it took him only 2 seasons to dominate the circuit. Back when 6 inches was a lot of travel. Too bad now he is a washed up drug rehab has been. He will never have a chance against Peaty, Hill, Rennie, the Atherons and such.

wow thats pretty harsh. i'm sure he's still more of a rider than you.
suitably harsh response?

Listen I was a big Cadillac Kid follower from when he was a bad boy snowboarder. When you were probably still swimming in your daddies sac. He was the man, he got kicked out of competitions for cursing out judges. Owned his own snowboard company. Always showed support for him, he was talented at anything he did. Then he wasted his life and talent to drugs and alcohol. Some athlete to look up to then. Now for the past 3 years I have heard about him making a come back..................tumbleweed blows by. Face it he is past his prime. Washed up just because Intense is giving him a chance that means squat. I have no respect for Intense for sighing such a negative influence. He let a lot of people down and will always be seen as washed up. They just want to bank on his name. Otherwise don't you think Specialized would have approached him. They have Hill to push their name plus many others that give them positive publicity. It's not harsh it is the truth.

however washed up and slow he is he still managed to qualify for a world cup downhill event which is better then 90% of the americans what enter, and thats with years off the bike

oh burn

HAHA touché bigtard!! def French Canadian!! I tend to go through bikes pretty fast call it MTB ADHD I guess... The 951 looks pretty sweet and I`ve never had VPP before. To be honest I have considered a Shocker, but they're sorta outdated... I currently ride a Devinci Wilson 4 and love it. Plus it was made in the old home province!! Cheers.

Stryke shouldn't you be rooting for that other guy....Cedric. instead of an American has been. just because he qualified doesn't mean you can call it a comeback. Maybe he should try motorcross or rally racing. Seems like the place where people retire to. Sorry like I said before he let too many people down. I will never forgive Palmer for that. Same way Missy threw her life away. We do have others that are still ok like Carter and Lopes. We also have to see what Kyle Straight is going to bring to the plate

Cjl1 stick with the Wilson it is an awsome bike. I want one so bad but they are so hard to get in the states. I can find the frame new on eBay but then what do you do for parts and the life time warranty? You want something nice get a Demo8. Intense are overpriced. Have a crappy warranty, just not worth the money. Otherwise see how Dobermann's new dh bike turns out, the Stella. At least they are a Canadian company.

Big tard... i was talking about how it stands up to uk riding! Yes it will be seen alot in whistler, but thats nothing like anything in the uk! Read the comment before you slate it! It was just my opinion.

uk terrain isnt anything special apart from weather..

@dchill, i was just laughing at the fact theres so many us riders who 'train' all winter in socal with nice warm weather and have full factory kits and blinged rides and fail to qualify and then shaun palmer comes out from the mist after how many years? and qualifies on probably one of the hardest tracks to qualify for (tight times and tricky track to not crash)

you gotta admit, pooping is one of life's greatest enjoyments though right
the bike cant be all that bad

haha true that!

theres almost 0 manufacturers using robots to weld bicycles

ever owned or ridden one?

they dont suck but theyre pricey

haha cammccaulismyhero you ride a kona stinky and your caling a transition bottlerocket shit

They are not that pricey. Transition makes nice bikes just happens to be the BR sucks. Yes I have ridden one the SXT and Giant Reign X own it in dh and fr. For slopestyle they have the double, Specialized has the sx and there are others. The BR just doesn't have a proper niche. I mean really a 37lb 5.5 travel bike

And for the old design they should be selling for like $800

I was thinking more along the lines of overbuilt slope style bike.