Best buy for a beginner: 29er

[Monark]

All of the Momsen AL329's are sold out... you will need to wait until August/September for the new stock to arrive

[single track chick]

This is a 9.5kg 29er... with pedals, bottle cage and Garmin (as ridden) but new S-Works tyres will dip the weight to 9.3kg.

 

Andre,what is the exact name of this bike?

[Tazzy]

Eldron's right, Giant XTC 29er is the best bike in that price bracket IMHO, you can always upgrade the wheels later

Good luck!

[MoreTrails]

I know exactly what you should get as a beginner - a hard tail 26er with flat bedals. Learn to ride that and then, only then will you know how to ride a bike properly without accumulating any bad habits!

[Akon]

Please be so kind as to give us a name that suits YOU and describes it better than "cockpit". BTW 26er bikes also have them so stop swinging around your sarcasm and not-so-whitty whip and start contributing FFS

 

Play nice KM - it was funny

 

you don't see us roadies getting ourselves in a twist, being made fun off by a bunch of wannabee cyclists (aka mounties) now do you?

[LazyTrailRider]

Budget for an immediate tubeless conversion.

 

So add R250 to the budget you mean?

[Dylan Solms]

Hi

I would strongly reccommend you build yourself a niner with a rigid fork.

For R15000 you could build a singlespeed niner MCR9, SIR 9 (both are made of steel so they are damn strong) and if you prefer aluminium there is the EMD 9 which is rhe cheapest of the three.

Then buy yourself the worlds best rigid fork, the niner carbon and make the bike a singlespeed. The reason for the rigid and singlespeed conversion lies in the fact that the niner wheels provide enough suspension (so you don't need a heavy fork which requires maintenance every 25 hours of ride and climbs are beter with a rigid) and single speed work with momentum and guess what 29 inch wheel are all about...momentum. So they fit together perfectly. PLus this all saves a lot of money and build you an indestructable maintanence free bike which will be extremely light and will own climbs.

I would reccomend you buy a pair of dt swiss rims mabye even form the hub and get a slx crank and some cheap brakes like tektro.

Your bike should weigh less than 10kg and for a beginner, that is the most awsome you can go.

Plus singlespeed and rigid makes you cool.