babylon

lol grab a btwin bike, they are awesome value but dont buy a full susser under 1k, happy with my hardtail and thousands of miles on it

here is my decathlon mountain bike

ancient model rock rider 540 and im a proper fat ass now and it still handles my weight, the fork got changed etc after cycling through a few winters, also thousands of miles on that bike, changed wheel bearings, front break pads, 3rd set of tyres, cassette changed as i wore out my most common gears several chains later, that is a recent pic 

check out https://www.cyclechat.net/ 

very good freindly forum for bikes 

soon after i got that bike i changed the front dereailuer from a altus to a deore and it is still running sweet and i still have the stock x7 sram one on the back  

Yer, I did read up, and realised getting a full sus for less than a grand is a no no, Other thing is that at the moment getting a half decent bike of any sort that's in stock is nearly, Next too impossible.

 Just try buying a bike on-line, Everything is out of stock, I was looking at the Calibre BossNut as it was getting great reviews,

Thing is, Calibre is spanking it at the moment, There is an article over at MBR that say's there sales are up 334%, A John Williams from them said this,“Last week I had five 40ft containers of different bikes arrive on the Friday, and I’d sold them all by Monday,” he says. “That’s 1,100 bikes sold over the weekend.”

Go outdoors has 15 Mountain Bikes listed, 14 are OOS.

I'm happy to wait a bit as just like clothes horses, I mean treadmills after Christmas, I think a few of these are gonna pop up on the bay over the next months.

I have  Bourdman Hybred with the same Sram x7 which has never missed beat.

I just went on to Decathalon, And this is what you get

DUE TO HIGH DEMAND, WE ARE CURRENTLY SUSPENDING ONLINE DELIVERY FOR BIKES. WE ARE NOW INCREASING THE AVAILABILITY OF OUR BIKES IN OUR STORE SHOWROOMS WHILE CONTINUING WITH OUR CLICK AND COLLECT SERVICE. THIS IS A TEMPORARY MEASURE AND WE THANK YOU FOR YOUR PATIENCE AND UNDERSTANDING.

I turned to mountain biking last time I went through this cycle as well.