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wats the best freeride bike in your opinion
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flag bullitxl
Posted: Nov 27, 2007 at 13:15 Quote
There is only one choice here the SANTA CRUZ VP FREE, YA BOYZ! My Free weights 38 lbs with a DHX 5 w/ ti spring, fox 40's, 729's, stans, tubless 2.5" high rollers, and 8" front and back. It's all in the name 'Free', as in Freeride.

You can pedal it up and you can bomb it on the way down. There isn't anything I haven't tried to pedal up or drop off that my Free can't handle. I use my VP free on the XC rides in Fernie so if there's will, there's a way to pedal it up. Bottle rockets are great but are more of a bike park bike. Any bike with an interrupted layed back seat tube is pretty much out of the question as a free ride bike. Demos are DH bikes, not Freeride bikes. In my opinion True freeride bikes are very limited in availability. Intense and Kona are the only to other OEM's that come to mind that offer true freeride bikes on my opinion.
flag pbuser197748
Posted: Nov 27, 2007 at 14:06 Quote
allday wrote:
are norco alines decent for freeriding?

ya alines are dope for freerideing its just that they look stupid with signle crown ... and thats why im trying to get ride of my aline
flag jingo
Posted: Nov 27, 2007 at 14:13 Quote
i think we all know wat two bikes are the winners for fr the BOTTLE ROCKET
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or the other in my opinion the yeti ASX
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flag tomcoady
Posted: Nov 27, 2007 at 14:18 Quote
defo transition bottlerocket or intense 6.6 slopestyle
not that i haave ether Cry
flag dg85
Posted: Nov 27, 2007 at 14:22 Quote
That cove but cant remember what its called
flag norcofreak9191
Posted: Nov 27, 2007 at 14:26 Quote
i dont get it why everyone is drouling over the bottle rocket, its not that nice. the rear suspension on it is the worst thing ever and it looks like it should be a ht
flag jingo
Posted: Nov 27, 2007 at 14:27 Quote
hold on a sec we are talkin about freeride bikes here y is eveyone just pickin slopestyle bikes ???
flag tomcoady
Posted: Nov 27, 2007 at 14:29 Quote
norcofreak9191 wrote:
i dont get it why everyone is drouling over the bottle rocket, its not that nice. the rear suspension on it is the worst thing ever and it looks like it should be a ht
the suspension is really good on a bottle rocket its got 2:1 ratio
flag pbuser197748
Posted: Nov 27, 2007 at 15:16 Quote
jingo wrote:
i think we all know wat two bikes are the winners for fr the BOTTLE ROCKET
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1474169


or the other in my opinion the yeti ASX
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1516445


see the asx is pretty nice but the frame is to high for my liking.. i like the angle of the bottle rocket
flag jingo
Posted: Nov 27, 2007 at 15:18 Quote
yeah it is to bike but that is a large you can get it in a small and it looks nicer but still it ma m8s bike rides like a dream goin dh
flag bicyclerider8
Posted: Nov 27, 2007 at 17:21 Quote
ok if not a kona what about the new khs lucky seven
flag pbuser197748
Posted: Nov 27, 2007 at 17:25 Quote
wen do the 2008 norco bikes come out .. i no stupid question but they never come out exacly at 2008 .. cause i wanna no if hte 2008 shore 1 is pretty good cause i was checking that out even tho its like 5000 with tax's and shit thats a pretty sexy bike and its only 40 pounds
flag pparemartin
Posted: Nov 27, 2007 at 17:26 Quote
hey the new norco shore is amazing
flag jingo
Posted: Nov 27, 2007 at 17:27 Quote
they are out now in uk that is enyway!
flag pbuser197748
Posted: Nov 27, 2007 at 17:27 Quote
i no i love the looks i jsut wanna no wat they feel liek

 


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