buying advice

Pault84

Hi all, im new to forums and the mtb scene.
i decided to try start riding again to help my fitness but after got my old bike out after 8years its kinda in a bad way so thought i'll buy a new 1 but not sure whats good and not in todays world, i used to have a claud butler and did me fine for what i want which is casual riding off road so nothing to fancy and my budget is kinda 250 max. i've liked look of 2 bikes,

Claud butler stoneriver for £229

http://www.bikes2udirect.com/B2483.html?id=J6GGymbm

or GT avalance 3.0 disc for £269

http://www.paulscycles.co.uk/products.p ... 1b0s2p1424

would like to get some opinions on them and if worth just going above my budget for GT or any others u would advise but would like to have discs on it.

Thanks in advance

Paul

Mr Wu

If would say out of the two of them defo go for the avalanche.

Have a look around though as you may get it cheaper still than what youve got there.

Ebay all the way, at the time of writing this the avalanche 1.0 is going for £200....

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/GT-AVALANCHE-1-0- ... 240%3A1318

supersonic

Both seem good for the money.

Have a look at the What Hardtail guide in the buying section for more ideas.

You may be better servd by a local dealer so you can try a few out.

Pault84

thanks for the advice. I just checked out the what hardtail guide and see the rockrider 5.2 is currently at £199, theres not a decathlon that far from me so going to have a look at it today but would u say its worth buying discs to go on it as that would work out cheaper than going for the disc model which is at £299? and if so are there any good disc at around £50?

passout

I prefer GTs generally: nice handling. Spend as much as you can to save on repairs and upgrades later - assuming that you do use the bike pretty often that is.