your thoughts on this as a XC race bike?

whydoesitalwaysrainonme

Hi i am looking at a xc race bike for £1000, hopefully on my dads cycle 2 work scheme (fingers crossed) and was looking at the Diamondback DBR 1 2009, i am pretty sure it is the lightest bike in its price range but stand to be corrected.
http://www.diamondback.co.uk/bikedetails.aspx?ID=6385&GID=14
has anybody had any experience of this bike before, especially the rims as they are made by DB themselves.
cheers Jamie

supersonic

How much does it weigh?

Mark_K

11kgs in the info so shade over 24lbs
I've always liked DB but think some of there bikes have been over priced/under speced in the last few years !

supersonic

Does seem quite light. Spec looks like it would be heavier.

Scandium carbon frame? Could be a very light frame though!

Airienteer

Boardman Pro is also 24.1lb and has a better spec imo.

toasty

I'm not too convinced by the quoted weight on the Diamondback site*. The Boardman is much higher spec, couple of hundred grams saved in the fork, same again in the wheels, chainset, brakes. Even a bit saved in finishing kit and gears, it's going to be a good chunk lighter.

*which is fair enough, most brands talk porkies on weights anyway.

memphis32

I would watch out about the "Dad's cycle-to-work" thing though - the company doing the scheme will want to be sure it's being used for what it's supposed to be, or they can be done for tax fraud. I couldn't get a bike on the scheme as I was part-time, and the scheme specifies that the bike should be "mostly" used for cycling to work...

whydoesitalwaysrainonme

im sure it'll be fine, my dad has a nice bike anyway (trek X0) so he will use that. Am also looking at trek 6700 looks quite good.
update: just looked at the boardman and my god!! that is by far the best value for money i have ever seen! especially compared to the inflated prices of trek, scott etc. I will definitely be going for the boardman though.

Stoo61

Well don't be hasty. I have a Boardman and im happy with it.


However, the geometry was different to what I was used to from my Commencal. Used to it now but make sure you try it. Other than that, yeah, fantastic value.