Hutchinson Carbon Comp Tubular

Advantages: Top quality kit
Disadvantages: Nothing at all

...Being a mountain bike mad man I decided it was time to get a new bike. Shopping around for a bike these days gets complicated with the huge variety of bikes you can buy and for a wide price range. Me being me I like the hard tail mountain bikes. That's a bike without rear suspension. If your on recreational cycling or after some sport competition then a hard tail is a good choice for a reasonable choice. THE BIKE HOW MUCH and CHOOSING IT Anyways, after much decision making I finally went for the Specialised Rockhopper Comp Disc 2007 bike. At £749 this for me is actually not a bad price bearing in mind you can get bikes for £4000 plus. It was a little more than I wanted to spend but its worth it for that little extra upgrade over the model below. I went for the Rockhopper because I know it has a good all round reputation... Read review

Ciao members have rated this review on average very helpful

Advantages: Go fast up hill and even faster down
Disadvantages: Can feel abit clunky

...Specialized Epic Comp 2007. This bike is owned by my husband, and I recently trialled it as I was upgrading from a Specialized FSR Comp 2006. From reading reviews about this bike it is marketed as a XC race bike, and could be a bit twitchy on the downhill’s. Also knowing the people that I know that ride them they are all very fast and technically competent riders, so when looking into buying this bike I assumed that it would be too difficult for me to ride and that a stumpjumper would be suited to me. So on trialling both the stumpjumper and the epic and found that the epic suited me a lot better, I found that it climbed really well due to a more hardtail set up of the bike but I also found that it was really good on the downhill as well. So if you thinking about getting a new bike I definitely recommend considering an epic... Read review

Ciao members have rated this review on average somewhat helpful

Advantages: Lightweight comfortable fast great handling
Disadvantages: none

...After 20 years not riding, I decided to get back into cycling so I could teach my children how to ride. I bought a mountain bike and caught the cycling bug good and proper. I soon became addicted to cycling up and down the country lanes where we live and soon enough wanted something a little more sophisticated that would be better suited to hill climbs and rapid progress on the flat. I read just about everything there was to read and opted for the Spesh Roubaix Comp. As a 42 year old, I have a normal amount of low back pain so the last thing I wanted was an Arse Up Head Down position that required the flexibility of a 20 year old. Also, I wanted something that could take care of vibration from those skinny high pressure tyres. The Roubaix is designed to handle both. It is very fast and so much easier up the hills. The Comp... Read review

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