Advice on buying and upgrading: Saracen mantra 1/2
Alex-nutsaboutbiking
Posts: 235
Hey, Those who may have helped me before may be getting sick of me asking loads of questions (
) but i was thinking of now buying a saracen mantra 1 or 2 the only thing is, is that when i buy it im going to soon after upgrade the fork to something more adjustable (rockshox tora 318) so the forks on the bike to start with dont make much differance to me. The only things on the saracen mantra 2 that im not going to upgrade is the Shimano Alivio gears and a Truvativ Isoflow 3.0 chainset now will these make much diffence (other than a 70 pound differance)?
) but i was thinking of now buying a saracen mantra 1 or 2 the only thing is, is that when i buy it im going to soon after upgrade the fork to something more adjustable (rockshox tora 318) so the forks on the bike to start with dont make much differance to me. The only things on the saracen mantra 2 that im not going to upgrade is the Shimano Alivio gears and a Truvativ Isoflow 3.0 chainset now will these make much diffence (other than a 70 pound differance)? 0
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The only things you are not going to upgrade? Why not buy a better bike to start?!0
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the only thing im upgrading is the forks, the Shimano Alivio gears and a Truvativ Isoflow 3.0 chainset are the only differance according to the saracen website apart from the air saddle but i dont realy give a damn about the saddle
p.s thanks for the quick reply!0 -
Just to throw a cat amonst the pigeons, have a look at this:
http://www.winstanleysbikes.co.uk/produ ... _Bike_2008
For the price of your upgrades you get better, well, just abput everything! Toras, 9speed, lighter frame, Hayes discs, good wheels...0 -
yer well what i was goin to do was sell the RST strike forks on ebay (how much do you think ill get for them btw?) so that it only comes to just short of 370ish quid as the bike is 270 in crc and the forks are 130 in merlins
p.s wishfull thinking maybe but i would have to sdave up for ages to get the zen 1 bike0 -
Be lucky to get 50 for the strikes, Probably 30-40.0
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ok thanks but even so it all comes to less than 400 quid what ever i do so i think ill do this then thanks for the advice tho0
