Commencal, turner or cove?

mrjiey
mrjiey Posts: 55
edited June 2007 in MTB buying advice
Howdee

After much deliberation, consideration and persuasion from other riders, iv decided to spend my money and buy a new bike, will build myself though. (before go into huge amounts of debts a uni.) I will be mostly using it up north in the south lakes and in Scotland, doing XC and Trail riding, with some more adventurous stuff in between.

To save money though i will be buying mainly off EBay and second hand, but the best conditioned stuff I can find.

First is first, frames, as stated before, i would like to buy second hand or 06 versions. After falling in love with Commencals and thinking i wanted one; I'm now not so sure. but am sure i would like one of the following:
<ul><li>Commencal meta 5.5.1/2 06 or 07
</li><li>turner 5 spot ( http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Turner-Mountain-B ... dZViewItem self explanatory.)
</li></ul>Cove hustler (http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Cove-Hustler-Full ... dZViewItem which is size 17.5 with a reserve of œ450)

(or off of EBay or reduced frame sale, any year.) the links are just examples, will wait till nearer the end date to see their going prices before I commit.

So basically something with 5 inches of rear travel and between 100 and 140mm front. I like the look of them all, and am really not sure.

Sizing is another thing; as mentioned before im 6 foot 4, Im pretty sure I need XL Commencal and I think Turner, but not sure about Cove, opinions from those that have any of these bikes would be appreciated.

Then comes the matter of selling my current bikes, it's a Specialized 2004 epic, with XTR group set pretty much, fox front and rear forks, XTR discs, Thompson elite seat post, Mavic rims, in pretty good nick, not abused. What sort of money should I be looking for, and any offers?

Help gratefully appreciated, as are links to useful websites.

Cheers

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