Need help with a bike choice

I have a friend (really) who is looking for a bike and came to me for ideas. Im a mountain biker and
he is looking for a more "city" bike, so Im not alot of help. He is a BIG boy (285 lbs) and wants a
bike he can cruse around L.A. Wants to spend around $800-$1000. Wants a bike that will let him hop
curbs, cruse through parks, take it along the "strand", carry stuff back from the store on a rack,
ride a few miles to work (2-3) etc. Im thinking a steel hardtail mountain bike with city tires and
good beefy rims? I do not know alot about this nitch of bike, any ideas and links would be great,
Ill pass them along to him. Thanks Todd

 

Look at Haro Extreme X2. I'm 250 and have had no problems. Best bike for under $1200 IMO.

"Todd B" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected]...
> I have a friend (really) who is looking for a bike and came to me for
ideas.
> Im a mountain biker and he is looking for a more "city" bike, so Im not
alot
> of help. He is a BIG boy (285 lbs) and wants a bike he can cruse around
L.A.
> Wants to spend around $800-$1000. Wants a bike that will let him hop
curbs,
> cruse through parks, take it along the "strand", carry stuff back from the store on a rack, ride a
> few miles to work (2-3) etc. Im thinking a steel hardtail mountain bike with city tires and good
> beefy rims? I do not know alot about this nitch of bike, any ideas and links would be great, Ill
> pass them along to him. Thanks Todd

 

Kona Cinder Cone best bike for a G-note. ;-)

"PirateLord®" <9klrdood9[nospam]@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> Look at Haro Extreme X2. I'm 250 and have had no problems. Best bike for under $1200 IMO.
>
>
> "Todd B" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected]...
> > I have a friend (really) who is looking for a bike and came to me for
> ideas.
> > Im a mountain biker and he is looking for a more "city" bike, so Im not
> alot
> > of help. He is a BIG boy (285 lbs) and wants a bike he can cruse around
> L.A.
> > Wants to spend around $800-$1000. Wants a bike that will let him hop
> curbs,
> > cruse through parks, take it along the "strand", carry stuff back from
the
> > store on a rack, ride a few miles to work (2-3) etc. Im thinking a steel hardtail mountain bike
> > with city tires and good
beefy
> > rims? I do not know alot about this nitch of bike, any ideas and links would
be
> > great, Ill pass them along to him. Thanks Todd
> >
> >
>

 

"PirateLord®" <9klrdood9[nospam]@yahoo.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:[email protected]...
> Look at Haro Extreme X2. I'm 250 and have had no problems. Best bike for under $1200 IMO.
>

Todd, I do not think your friend need a full suspension bike. Haro does make a good quality entry
level hardtail. It is called the Vector.

You can put a cantilever rack on just about anything, but if he want's a traditional rack, you might
want to do used. Bikes used to come with eyelets near the rear dropouts for a rack. It seems that
the manufacturers have stopped doing this though.

-Dave

 

"Todd B" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:<[email protected]>...
> I have a friend (really) who is looking for a bike and came to me for ideas. Im a mountain biker
> and he is looking for a more "city" bike, so Im not alot of help. He is a BIG boy (285 lbs) and
> wants a bike he can cruse around L.A. Wants to spend around $800-$1000. Wants a bike that will let
> him hop curbs, cruse through parks, take it along the "strand", carry stuff back from the store on
> a rack, ride a few miles to work (2-3) etc. Im thinking a steel hardtail mountain bike with city
> tires and good beefy rims? I do not know alot about this nitch of bike, any ideas and links would
> be great, Ill pass them along to him. Thanks Todd

Tell him to buy an Electra cruiser.

JD

 

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> Atom bomb or Nuke Proof

Mutually exclusive choices.

Bill "ok, back in the shelter" S.

 

This is a 2000 large frame Mrazek hand made not a production line bike .Very nice large tubes with
some nice curves .Get some good looks at the trailhead. Has Sram 9.0 shifters and derailer carbon,
Avid brakes . Spin Spok2 wheels carbon pp spokes yellow rims .Mazochi z4 fork 2002 Riser bars USE
sus seatpost WTB ti railed seat .800$ obo + shipping frame goes for that much.Bought a new bike this
one is crying from not getting ridden. Going to put on ebay next thought Id give this group a try .
[email protected] send me a offer in need to move it . Will let go cheaper with a set of xt /mavic
222 rims choice of tires .

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J/O Trailblazer At large !!