How to be confident in reviews
notabigfish
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I'm looking for new bike for wife and have read few reviews on the site. Here are few quotations about bikes we are considering.
GT Avalanche - "The GT Avalanche is one of the best all-round trail bikes we’ve tested for under £500.", " the plush 100mm-travel (3.9in) SR Suntour XCM fork is pretty good at taking the knocks".
Giant Revel - " Let down by the fork", " a fork like SR Suntour’s XCM is simply irritating", " full potential of the bike is wasted when it has such a poor fork fitted"
Both bikes have the same fork, more or less the same price and absolutely different feedback. Beside the fork is not really great how I can be confident in such reviews :?:
GT Avalanche - "The GT Avalanche is one of the best all-round trail bikes we’ve tested for under £500.", " the plush 100mm-travel (3.9in) SR Suntour XCM fork is pretty good at taking the knocks".
Giant Revel - " Let down by the fork", " a fork like SR Suntour’s XCM is simply irritating", " full potential of the bike is wasted when it has such a poor fork fitted"
Both bikes have the same fork, more or less the same price and absolutely different feedback. Beside the fork is not really great how I can be confident in such reviews :?:
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links to each one?"Do not follow where the path may lead, Go instead where there is no path, and Leave a Trail."
Parktools :?:SheldonBrown0 -
Lol
Are these both from Bike Radar reviews?
General opinion on Suntour forks is don't bother unless its XCR, Epicon, Raidon0 -
Agree with opinion on forks, just funny to read such reviews one by one..
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There are a few versions of the XCM - some are damped, others are not, and even the same fork can vary.
Further down the GT review:
"Hopefully, clunky rebounds will soon be a thing of the past, but it did rear its ugly head on the XCM when the going got rough on fast descents. Try before you buy – there seem to be inconsistencies in feel between same name forks.
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From the GT Avalanche review:Bike Radar wrote:The SR Suntour fork is a rival to RockShox’s cheapest Dart models, with a useful lockout that didn’t suffer from the usual trail chatter affliction. Hopefully, clunky rebounds will soon be a thing of the past, but it did rear its ugly head on the XCM when the going got rough on fast descents. Try before you buy – there seem to be inconsistencies in feel between same name forks.
Maybe the fork on their test bike had been set up in a particular way or was from a different batch with a different damping circuit? I'm just guessing here by the way...0 -
also note the dates.
one is a year 10 bike the other is a year 11."Do not follow where the path may lead, Go instead where there is no path, and Leave a Trail."
Parktools :?:SheldonBrown0
