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I ride Danbury most. I've got a ventana terremotto with lyrik fork.
There are a really good bike I've not found a bad review yet.
The only thing I wish I got a medium frame. But thats just me.

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Everyone loves kona operator now . i seen some my self and they are beautiful really if you got money

http://www.konaworld.com/gravity_dual_s ... t=operator

check out the awesome videos loving them

Well at least someone agrees with me really want one but most people say to stay clear of KONA

Hi mate,

Kona had a lot of bad reviews over the past few years, but apparently have cleared their act up a bit and their bikes are a bit better.

However, they are still using the same suspension system from 1995, bu tthen again, if it aint broke, dont fix it.

Just think with that amount of money, you could get something a bit nicer, i.e a santa cruz, intense etc........

Do you want a pure DH bike, burly and designed to plow through everything, or something more all rounded, could take it to a jump spot/pump track and mess around with?

If it's pure DH you want, I've heard great things about the YT Industries!

http://img444.imageshack.us/img444/5199 ... qfcbp3.png

Great bang for buck too, with a grand to spare you can almost stick a whole Saint groupset on it too lol :p

Or if you want something a bit more "flickable" (as I like to call it), I REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY want one of these!

http://www.freeflowbikes.com/ProductDet ... t_id=11844

Get that with the CCDB, and build it up with 2nd hand parts, or push your budget that bit further and get new stuff

Just my 2p, but a bike is a completely individual thing, so you really want to ride a bike where you like to ride first if you can!

If not, but offline and use the DSR to return it haha :p

Yep..Kona were seen as a bit of a budget bike..but you can get second hand ones v cheap and I see CRC have a huge range of frames prettyu cheap too...the Kona Operator does seem to be a new start for them though, theyve made a geeat vid you can view online.

As other have mentioned though, if you have a nice pile of dosh there are some amazing purely DH bikes like YT, Nukeproof, Intense, Santa Cruz, etc about.

Andy

Good shout on the Nukeproof andydd!

Slightly out of budget but you get a world cup quality bike!

http://www.chainreactioncycles.com/Mode ... elID=75655

Mate is selling this. good for 90% of all DH but also a bit more freeride. he is asking 1750 for a good a new one. there 4000 new (the blue one)

http://www.marin.co.uk/2010/bikepage.php?ModNo=10Q79

Yep and as soon as you jump on it you instantly becoming a world cup pro level rider

Theres cheaper one too > http://www.chainreactioncycles.com/Mode ... elID=75656

Andy

Obviously man, everyone knows the more expensive your gear, the better you are....


:p

Dude of you have 3 - 3.5 K to spend look at the new (2012) Kona operator, it comes on at around 2.4k I think and has got great reviews from numerous places. You'll have some spare cash to upgrade the parts if you want then

What about this bike??


http://www.rutlandcycling.com/34867/Yet ... n=pid34867

Thats just the frame man!