Specialized Rockhopper sl comp 2010 vs Rockhopper 2011

TheMurungu

I'm looking to buy my first mountain bike. I'm looking at around the £700 margin for a decent hard tail. As this bike will be brought on the cycle to work scheme I'm limited to smaller shops (which i agree is a better thing) but means i could miss out on some big deals from shops such as wiggle.

Anyway, I've come down to the specialized rockhopper as it seems to be a great all rounder, but I'm slightly confused as to whether the 2011 rockhopper is actually better than the 2010 rockhopper sl comp. Both are priced within £20 of each other so i'd really appreciate someone with a bit more knowledge helping me out on this one. I'm mainly interested in the forks and brakes of each bike but any thoughts would be great.

Rockhopper 2011
http://www.evanscycles.com/products/spe ... e-ec024978

Rockhopper sl comp 2010
http://www.evanscycles.com/products/spe ... e-ec020000

Cheers

ollie51

buy the 2010 model the spec is far better

rockmonkeysc

2010 model is better. Budget for a new set of pedals, Specialized pedals are useless.