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flag lcstay10
Posted: Oct 25, 2007 at 16:29 Quote
hey i have a 2006 kona dawg, its been working out great, i love it, but i want to get into freeriding and dont have a huge bank to spend, and i want to keep the dawg so selling it is out of the question. i only have around 1500 to spend so i was thinking of buying used, thats one reason why im on pink bike, just wondering what you think a good, reliable bike that will get that will get the job done without blowing the bank, thanks for your input
flag fluffles
Posted: Oct 25, 2007 at 16:35 Quote
if you dont wanna break the bank i would say yout best best would prolly be a kona stinky
flag teel515
Posted: Oct 25, 2007 at 16:36 Quote
go with a big hit
flag messbike
Posted: Oct 25, 2007 at 16:42 Quote
I think u should try mongoose black diamond 1/2 or 3.
flag lcstay10
Posted: Oct 25, 2007 at 16:45 Quote
thanks everyone, ill take all sugestions into conciteration, does anyone have a good bike that they have 4 sale, if so shoot me a letter on pinkbike or an email
flag stupes
Posted: Oct 25, 2007 at 16:58 Quote
yo dude if you can get your hands on a used norco shore 2 or 3 it would be the perfect freeride bike. you could probably get a good used shore 3 for 15-1600. what ever u do though dont buy a kona stinky, i split the frame. and the bighit is a little on the heavy side for freeride.
flag pdee
Posted: Oct 25, 2007 at 17:28 Quote
u can get a commencal supreme 6.30 at http://www.rscycle.com/ .
flag lcstay10
Posted: Oct 25, 2007 at 18:10 Quote
1600 is a little to much, 1500 is like the max i can pay, if i had more i would deff get a better bike, and also around me is some good freeride and downhill, but i neeed to be able to bike in to a lot of the spots so im looking for a big single crown like a 66 or a float 36, and i would prefer a coil rear shock, but if it has a fox dhx 5.0 air shock, that would be cool to, let me know thanks a lot
flag 40ozfreeride
Posted: Oct 25, 2007 at 18:13 Quote
If you go with a stinky, make sure the dropoff triple isnt on that mofo, if you do anything big at all, youll kill yourself. Those forks are death on a stick.
flag stupes
Posted: Oct 25, 2007 at 18:33 Quote
yo dude im pretty sure that if you look around hard enough you will find a shore 2 or 3 for 1500 but if u think u can get 66 or float 36 for 1500 and under then yer dreamin dude
flag stupes
Posted: Oct 25, 2007 at 18:36 Quote
oh ya and it also depends on what year u want cuz if u go with an older model u can get a shore 1 fer 1500 or less and that is a smokin bike. my buddy has one and its been working out great for him and he dose the same things as me and i have a stinky.
flag lcstay10
Posted: Oct 25, 2007 at 18:38 Quote
hows the stinky working out and what model and year, i have always like kona
flag 40ozfreeride
Posted: Oct 25, 2007 at 18:41 Quote
bigquotesyo dude im pretty sure that if you look around hard enough you will find a shore 2 or 3 for 1500 but if u think u can get 66 or float 36 for 1500 and under then yer dreamin dude
I done it, 66 on my new beasty beast Pimp
flag stupes
Posted: Oct 27, 2007 at 14:35 Quote
my stinky suks. i was riding at c.o.p and i was hitting most of the big lines and i snapped the back linkage. but if you keep the drops below 10 feet then it is an ok bike.
flag olynch
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Posted: Oct 27, 2007 at 15:11 Quote
It depends on how good you are, if you think are good, move to a full sus for freeriding, if not get a hardtail then buy a full sus later, will be so benefitial in the future to u because i will teach you to ride well later on.

But then if u really want a full sus get this http://www.rscycle.com/s.nl, reason for that because its a very good beginners freeride bike and you can upgrade it to make it an ultimate freeride rig. Also its brandnew so u can't go wrong can u? Im about to buy 1 of thoughs frames myself cause there so good.
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