Push Seat Clip

Advantages: great for playing fish on
Disadvantages: Quite soft butt section

...Terry Hearn 12ft 2lb 9oz The rod: built with a full length duplon handle and fuji real seat, stainless steel collars cap the reel seat and handle of, a line clip is neatly whipped onto the blank, and silicon carbide rings anre used from a three legged butt ring to 2 legs to save weight on all other rings. An absolutely cracking rod to play fish on, with a nice through action and forgiving tip to prevent hook pulls. Optimum casting leads are around 3oz and the rod is capable of distances to around 120yards in the right conditions. The rod does struggle with pva work though and small bags only are advised. All in all it is a superb margin to midrange rod with a high build quality and varnish.... Read review

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Advantages: Cheap, does the job
Disadvantages: Extra features are unreliable

...I bought this bike for around £20 (brand new) from a popular catalogue store's clearance warehouse. My initial advice regarding this product is this: If you see it at a clearance warehouse retailing at around £20, and you really want an exercise bike and don't have the free cash to get anything more flash: get it. If, however, you see this bike retailing at it's RRP (that's somewhere around the £80 mark), then walk on by, because it's really not worth it. This is one of those products that is a bargain in the right circumstances. I'll tell you why, in a little while. First, the good bits. It's a cheap exercise bike. It comes 'flat-packed' in three main parts- the main body, the seat and seat support, and the handlebar support. The handlebar, pedals and stand are all included, and have to be attached once the main sections are put... Read review

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Advantages: Cheaper than the market leader
Disadvantages: Doesn't fold so well

...be 'let down'! One item I really do commend Dahon for and curse Brompton for not having thought of it first, is the built-in pump concealed in the seat post. This is not just some clever way of secreting a conventional pump about the bike's person, but the whole seat post IS the pump of the stirrup variety, allowing the base to be anchored by one of your feet whilst you pump admirable volumes of air by pushing the saddle up and down. Full marks chaps - the Brompton's is next to useless! The sturdy curved nature (hence the name) of the main frame, with its high quality powder-coat paint does give me reason to make one criticism though. To attain a high degree of rigidity, the Dahon has huge dollops of visible running welds. Now alumin(i)um does not weld as neatly as steel, and the Dahon does nothing to disabuse me of this observation... Read review

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