Giant or Boardman Full Sus choice

Deker

Hi,

Sorry about posting another which bike thread, but I've started thinking about a full sus bike (after a trip to Giant to pick up unrelated kit), they had last years Giant Trance on offer at just under £800 and after a quick look on the internet I can get a Boardman Team Full Sus 2014 for around the same price does any of these stand out as the better bike or are there any others I should be looking at? I'm happy to wait longer if adding more cash would buy a noticeably better bike but the Trance is the last 2014 available if I want the offer (reduced from £1299).

Thanks for any pointers.

Deker

rockmonkeysc

The Boardman has a better fork but the Giant has a much better frame. The Boardman frame isn't bad but the Giant's is very good, just let down by that Fox Evo fork.

Deker

Hi,

Thanks for that info, The Giant Trance on offer has SR Suntour forks

https://www.giant-bicycles.com/en-gb/bi ... ifications

How does that compare?

Deker

cooldad

Epicon is pretty good.

rockmonkeysc

I would definitely buy the Trance in that case then. The Suntour Epicon is a good fork. I would even buy that over the higher spec Trance.