Commencal Absolut Max Max - Atherton Edition

 Looks very good, love the graphics but V-Brakes? Come on guys! At least throw in Disc Brake compatible hubs! An Avid BB5 costs about £15 to buy in bulk! You would need to spend at least another £150 for wheels and Brakes that would be more suitable Other than that, Love it!

 Apologies, didn’t read that the Hubs were Disc compatible, The images looked otherwise, Still if it comes with Rotor and Calliper mounts, why not fit a basic Disc Brake? So my point still stands

 'Hubs: Commencal 6-bolt disc Front & Rear (8/9sp freehub) 14mm nutted.'
The hubs are compatible with discs. I agree though, a set of avid mechanicals would have topped it off to be an unbeatable budget bike.
Colour looks sweet too.

 Sorry Beat you to it with the correction, my mistake though. But the point still stands

 it's not really cheap. 400 quid is actually pretty up there for a bike without any suspension or even disc brake compatible wheels...

 i dont get what this bike is it looks kinda street so why is it g*y aluminium?

 what makes aluminium g*y?

 Maybe, accept for the fact that kona is shit and commencal is amazing

 he is saying g*y alum because it has a rigid fork on it, quite dumb if u ask me (rigid for on alum fram)

 kona isn't shit. yeah i ride one, but if you think of it, i would say kona has more expertise in making a jump/street bike. They have 6 TOP riders on there clump team. Legends, newcomers, and some wild spanish kid (andreu) who all give feed back on their slope, street, and jump bikes, to have them refined to the best possible angles, geo, material, and funtionalliy possible. Yeah maybe commencial has somthing on them for DH, but deffinitly not on DJ/SS. Which this hardtail would be consitered.

 really, i say f*ck kona haters

 do i see pegable mountain bike?!

 I disagree. Pro's are there for publicity. They do help refine geometry a bit, but its almost entirely in the hands of designers. And I think Kona's designers have been asleep on the job for the last several years.
Kona's bikes have hardly changed in the last decade. For DJ, they have got boring bikes that look the same way they did 5 years ago. They are not at all innovative (case in point: DOPE System). I know that if you have a good design you should stick with it, but you have to evolve with the sport. And in my mind, one new bike (the Bass) doesn't cut it.

 f*ck kona haters

 mason kona.... the words kona and street shouldnt go together! who rides street on a kona?! ha!

 i think part of the kona hating is that, they have a reputation for snapping at the headtube. because people fit them with a long-ass fork and expect it not to break. correct me if im wrong.

 DJPrOdigy well put my friend...

 g*y

 kona's shonky, and shonky inc is an amazing frame. It basically has all the same feautures, and geo as a black market mob. and for dmrchris, many people ride the shonky for street. Take when goss for example. He is on the kona shonky inc frame, made from reynolds cromo, and he seems to be doing just find on it. Andreu lacondeguy has his own frame on production now, the lacondeguy. The frame is very similar to the shonky inc, but it however does not have the internal campy 45/45 style headset. The geometry on it is amazing, both for street, and dj. I beleive that the kona bass (former cowan ds) and the new bass design (different tubing/more room for bigger crowns) is a proven SS machine, it has won crankworks multiple times, and is a multi-venue bike, used for FR, SS, Steet, and DJ. If you watch the Dr. Dew files episode on konaworld about the Cowan frame, it explains what i mean by rider input. It isnt an act there putting on by the way...

 Wayne Goss*****

 and i would say the designers have been quite awake, look at 06/07 stuff, compair it to 2010 stuff. Much nicer in design. Yeah same 4 bar linkage design on the DS bikes.. but its a good proven design.

 alu street frames break so often which is why you only get steel bmx frames for street dirt ect and it just doesnt feel nice at all compared to steel theres not enough flex.
this bike isnt for the serious rider...

and they have been making peg-able mtb's for years

 yeah they have been making pegable mtbs for years but not as much so as non-pegable its nice to see one getting some publicity as for the aluminum/ steel debate do you really feel the difference in the frame flexxing when you land something in the street? im gonna have to say no... if anything thats your knees/ tire your feeling

 in the first place konas are g*y i have an 06 scrap and im still riding it. the geometry is screwed up but i would say its bin prety dependable ive bin riding it for 4 years and it hasnt broke yet and i ride street, djs, park and prety much everything

 you dont feel it when you land something because that would just be worrying.
dont insult your kona because it my decide to snap next time you ride it

 exactly you dont feel the flex of a frame... the miniscule amount if any that it does... so why does a more flexy or less flexy frame matter, ok the more flexy can take more because it wont put all the stress on the welds... but o well even with a stiff ass frame if you break a weld you aint riding right lol, im not arguing im just curious if there is any real reason besides that someone cares about flex in a frame so much when they really shouldnt

 cause its the atherton edition..

 wow thats nice and its probebly because they ride for them and im sure they do have one

 To sell more bikes, Majority of people think 'Oh atherton edition, got to be good' etc

 yeah its all marketing. like if nike made another jordan. that shoe would get a hell of a lot more sales then it would if it didnt have jordans name on it

 they totaly aint the lighting lol,

 Apologies, didn’t read that, Still if it comes with Rotor and Calliper mounts, why not fit a basic Disc Brake? So my point still stands

 i supose your right mate, maybe they wanted to keep it as cheap to buy as possible, saying that, my old blue stp was 380 and it was so similar to this but it had hayes mx4 brakes

 Its Rachels Pumptrack training bike......LOL

 i would rather get the 09 one for less than 300 if its only a starter bike cuz they are basicly the same bike

 yeah it isn't even ti...

modular dropouts on FRAMES less than 400 quid are rare and seeing as all the parts apart from the frame are basically designed to be replaced its a pretty damn good deal. also the white rigid fork will be pretty easy to sell on to some trend whore kid and you could buy a decent second hand sus fork for it with the money.

 commencal is being pulled from the canadian dealers this year... not exactly sure why, but two dealers have told me this, so the warranty might be an issue if you get your hands on one.

 wow that sucks. this bike would be perfect for beginning riders like myself to start with and progressively enhance it. i know there are other bikes out there that are like this but, this one is so nice lol

 all brakes have pads

 aha yes, i was about to say, they def saved money with that seatpost

 isn't a drone steel..not the same. I would break this.

 ye they are, can sure take a beating
even a 6 n half foot fat man yumping a 5 step haha

 now thats a propper ride...