Looking into buying a MTB up to about £750

alanwooldridge
alanwooldridge Posts: 11
edited December 2018 in MTB buying advice
Hi all

I am looking at buying a Mtb from Evans because i can get it through a cycle to work scheme, i have found the following bike which i think spec wise looks pretty good but can not find many reviews on the bike.

Any thoughts:

https://www.evanscycles.com/cube-reacti ... e-EV318718

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  • alanwooldridge
    alanwooldridge Posts: 11
    Any advise would be great? ;)
  • JBA
    JBA Posts: 2,852
    edited December 2018
    What do you intend using the bike for (XC, trails, canal path pootles, etc)?
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  • cooldad
    cooldad Posts: 32,599
    Canal path poodles?

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  • JBA
    JBA Posts: 2,852
    Blooming' autocorrect! Amended.
    “Life has been unfaithful
    And it all promised so so much”

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  • sparquin
    sparquin Posts: 69
    Not bad, but do check the headset/fork spec. It says it's a straight steerer which might make future upgrades tricky.
  • robertpb
    robertpb Posts: 1,866
    It's a taper says so in the bumf.
    Now where's that "Get Out of Crash Free Card"
  • alanwooldridge
    alanwooldridge Posts: 11
    I want get into trails, i started doing a some with a basic bike a few years back before my bike was stolen and it was fun but the bike was very heavy so hard work.
  • alanwooldridge
    alanwooldridge Posts: 11
    The reason i was looking at this bike because it looked like that gave me the best kit for my budget but i have only been going by reviews and very small amount of experience.

    Rock Shox for the forks most of the others offer Suntour which get terrible reviews
    The Shimano SLX/XT Drive train also got good reviews.
  • swod1
    swod1 Posts: 1,639
    Looks a good spec but after a while you’ll be wanting to upgrade it especially the fork to something better.

    It’ll be better than those suntour coil spring that come on a lot of bikes though.
  • steve_sordy
    steve_sordy Posts: 2,453
    Take a look at this review from Mountain Bike Rider.

    https://www.mbr.co.uk/reviews/hardtail/ ... ntain-bike

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