jfizer wrote:
> So your complaint is that the bike isn't good at what it wasn't
> designed to do? This is not a down hill bike. It was never designed to
> be one. It is what Klein calls an "exploration" bike. In fact they
> state in the manual that it is not intended for down hill or technical
> riding. I tend to do distance riding and I find many bikes to be much
> more of a pain then the Mantra when going up hill or along ridges.
"exploration" bike? Not intended for down hill or technical riding?
Does this imply you explore alleyways, bike paths, sidewalks, and such?
Nothing against the bike, but that seems like a pretty stupid statement.
Technical is certainly in the eye of the beholder, if this bike is not
ment for technical riding, why does it come as a full suspension?
I would be hard pressed in my neighborhood (as I suspect many others
would be) to not have to ride downhill during the course of any ride.
I really wonder if Klein had this statement when the first bike came out
or it is something they added when they realized it had this stink-bug
problem, and from my limited experience on the bike 5 years ago in
Fruita, it did. Of course I was using the brakes as I was going downhill
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Craig Brossman, Durango Colorado
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