New Carrera full susser with 190mm of travel!

supersonic

And only £325!!! How do they do it?

http://www.halfords.com/webapp/wcs/stor ... 65499#dtab

Er shock length...

Chunkers1980

For the price of a good fork. Pretty impressive. Wonder how much it weighs though? my guess 36lb?

delcol

bet that shock has loads of tuning options...

120mm suntour forks and 190mm shock.. wtf,,,,,

cat_with_no_tail

It looks like they had a look around the factory and thought "wtf are we going to do with all these boxes of out-of-date parts?
AHA! I know.....hello? halfords? yes we've got a great new bike for you."

Whilst it is very cheap, I'm willing to bet it rides like a bus with wheels made of dog toffee.

supersonic

Chunkers1980 wrote:

For the price of a good fork. Pretty impressive. Wonder how much it weighs though? my guess 36lb?

Only 5lbs more than an orange 5, and better looking!

delcol

supersonic wrote:

Chunkers1980 wrote:

For the price of a good fork. Pretty impressive. Wonder how much it weighs though? my guess 36lb?

Only 5lbs more than an orange 5, and better looking!

and it probaby does'nt crack...

ilovedirt

That's a definite BSO...

Whoever writes the rubbish in the halfords website also clearly needs to learn the difference between eye to eye length, stroke length and frame travel...

ste_t

I'm actually tempted to buy one to see if it tries to kill me

the_moodster

I'm willing to bet its a 190mm rear shoc that some noob writing the blurb has translated into 190mm rear travel.

ilovedirt

the_moodster wrote:

I'm willing to bet its a 190mm rear shoc that some noob writing the blurb has translated into 190mm rear travel.

bingo

diy

I think its cheap because its got the wrong stickers on it. I think its meant to have Apollo on. Its a BSO imo.

timpop

ste_t wrote:

I'm actually tempted to buy one to see if it tries to kill me

Don't do it, you're crazy man!

I think it's just an error on the website. A typo even.

milfredo

Oh come on, that looks quite good. Deffo no BSA but I bet it rides like a plank of wood.

Blue rim only on the front is the only thing that doesn't look good IMHO.

blablablacksheep

i just bought that bike for my cousin was that a bad idea :P

Just seen it in Halfords and the fork was the wrong way as well as the brake lever being so low your hands would need to have 10" fingers to reach..wish i had taken photo

S-M

Tektro, eeeeewww, I have some of those brake callipers on the FSR while i wait for some Avid BB7`s, i dont rate the Tektro IO stuff at all, they came with the bike so ive left them on for the moment, but even with some decent discs, they still stop utterly crap.

I have wondered if maybe some new pads would improve things, but then i just thought "feck it, get some BB7"

diy

looks very similar to this one:
http://direct.tesco.com/q/R.208-6611.aspx

ste_t

Thinking about it, maybe not a bso at all. Looks very Haro-esque, Just an old frame built up with junk perhaps?