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Morning all,
I got a load of great advice from the forum when I bought my full sus a couple of months ago. N+1 has struck quick but for specific reasons. I run a project in Myanmar, 6 weeks a year for the foreseeable future, and want to keep riding whilst overseas. For obvious reasons I don't fancy shipping my best bike back and forth so was planning to get a Trek Marlin 7 from the only vendor of decent bikes in Yangon. He wants $650 (US). However, I just took a nose around the online sellers and came across the Radon ( http://www.radon-bikes.de/en/bikes-2016/mountainbike/hardtail/zr-team-29/zr-team-29-50/), which seemed to me like the best specced at that price point, €500. I can fly bikes for free but am leaving in a few weeks so need to buy soon. Does anyone have any experience of this Radon range? I presume it has the same frame as its more expensive siblings. Is there anything disastrous in the spec? I'd be leaving the bike with Burmese colleagues for the rest of the year, in a garage, but maintenance is going to be annual after 10 months of sitting in a humid dust cloud. Ta very much. Gaidong
Very good reputation in Germany. Win a lot of group tests in the mags. Not sure on the lower spec bikes but you can't really go wrong at that price can you? Just beware of the weight and the fact that the fork is going to be pretty damn basic.
Cheers Welshfarmer. Yup, I'm wary of the coil fork but I'm buying with project funds and can't take the p1ss... (thinks, "can I???"). I just need to get between my work sites on buffalo tracks, avoid getting too fat with all those lovely cold beers, and then there are the local extinct volcanoes for the weekends :D.