Wich bike should I buy for max 650€?

BCBoland

Hello everyone,
This is my first post so excuse me if I'm doing something wrong...
First of all I live in Spain and I am looking for a new mountainbike for around 650€ I don't do very hardcore stuff, I use it to get to my bus everyday that'd like 2 km everyday, it's through the mountains over gravel and some trails, that's why I need an mountainbike, I also like to go around riding around through mountains with my friends, one of them rides a trek x caliber 9 and the other one an double suspension specialized, I don't know exactly what model, well I don't have that much money to spend I'm looking for a new bike preferably a hard tail for around 600-650€, there are 2 bikes I have seen that I liked a lot, these where:
Trek marlin 7 2017 http://www.trekbikes.com/es/es_ES/bicic ... 1600-2017/
And the specialized rockhopper sport 2017 https://www.specialized.com/es/es/men/b ... -29/115500

I like the fork on the marlin 7 better, but is it worth the 50€ extra? I'm open to any suggestions also from other bike manufracturers , thanks in advance everyone
~Bruce

cooldad

Easily. The Trek has better almost everything.

The Rookie

Seconded, the XCM fork on the Spesh you would expect to see (and do see) on bikes at about half that price, it's a disgrace on a bike at this price point.

The Rockrider 560 offers the same fork but slightly better components elsewhere for a similar price.
https://www.decathlon.es/bicicleta-de-m ... 64732.html