Kona NUNU 2011 Vs. GT Avalanche 2.0 2012

alonmil

Hey all,
This is my first post here so I hope I will be clear enough
I'm Planing to get a New Hardtail and can't decide wich one of the two to get:
GT Avalanche 2.0 2012 or Kona NUNU 2011

My riding style is XC -TRAIL
i would like if you could tell what is the downside of each model. about the Kona NUNU, I heard that the RockShox Dart2 is't so good.... even bad. The GT's Fork is the new 2012 RockShox XC28' somebody heard about it????

another issue is the Gt's Brakes: Tektro Draco Pro, I couldn't find any review about them. does someone have any GOOD/BAD experience with them???

here is links to the bikes spec.:
GT: http://www.gtbicycles.com/isr/2012/bike ... lanche-2-0
Kona: http://2011.konaworld.com/bike.cfm?content=nunu

Hope for some help...

The Northern Monkey

Assuming you have around £450 to spend (going from the prices of the Nunu on the web) I wouldn't touch either of those bikes.

You can get something much much much much better.

Decathlon Rockrider 8.1 -£500
http://www.decathlon.co.uk/81-2011-id_8 ... nformation

Carrera Kraken £449
http://www.halfords.com/webapp/wcs/stor ... 65499#dtab

alonmil

Hey,
Actually I'm not from the UK, I'm from Israel... the forums on this site really help me sometimes.

so those are my best two choices that I have, I just not sure about the Dart2 fork and the Tektro Draco Pro brakes,
so could you help me with that?

cooldad

XC28 is replacement for the Dart. Darts are pretty rubbish, don't know about the XC28.

cooldad

Same price range, much better spec and free delivery to Israel.
http://www.chainreactioncycles.com/Mode ... elID=66723

Might be worth looking at some of the other online shops.

alonmil

Hey, thanks for the answer
I know the CRC is a very good online-shop and that I can really trust them but I prefer to buy a bike from my local dealer... here it's much easier for me...
so' can you still maybe give a quick review based on your knowledge about this specific models?

cooldad

Much of a muchness really. I ride a Kona so would probably go with that given the choice. Specs for both are pretty basic, forks are not very good.
Personally I wouldn't spend that much on either. But either will do the job, and you can always upgrade bits at a later stage.

phil_pompey

Hi don't know if i'm to late with this but just found a review of a bike equipped with the brakes. Here's an extract;

"Tektro’s Draco brakes may be seen as a budget-cutting move on paper but they’re powerful, well modulated and have a 180mm rotor up front to boost speedy slowing in poor conditions".

A Link to the full review;
http://www.bikeradar.com/gear/category/ ... e-11-40680

Hope that helps.