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That's a really weird ass rear suspension^^.
I ride a really simple gary fisher tarpon. It probably can't handle a black diamond course but it managed mount burke quite fine. I'm still new to down hill mountain biking but I already realized that it's a hobby that is far out of my price range. I'd need to upgrade a lot of my bikes components if i wished to make anything higher then a 4 foot drop.
Getting a decent road bike isn't that much of an issue though. I made an awesome, lightweight, peppy road bike for 60$ before. You just have to know how to build a bike, which is far easier then building/fixing a car. It's basic mechanic work through and through. Sure you could buy a ridiculously overpriced carbon fibre everything but then that's just more money out the window to go a little bit faster. My current road bike weighs maybe 5 pounds more then a carbon fibre frame bike and I probably wouldn't notice the difference in speed if i was riding either of them. It's getting to the point where it's so over engineered that it's simply a bragging right to have it. Just like the veyron. How many veyron owners are going to push that car to it's limits on each ride? Why not just build your own dragster and push that sucker to it's limits. And you also have to keep in mind your own capability on a bike. The bike will only go as fast as you can go. If you lack the strength then a supercycle can be just as good for you as a 3k$ devinci.
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