Thanks for the good advise. Will keep that in mind.

You guys might be very experience mountain bikers, but reading some of your post just show how childish and disrespectful some of you are.

Being a knowledgable mountain biker means being able to share useful infos to anyone from beginner to the advance biker. Not making cocky statement like getting bolted wheels, basket in front, mud guard etc.

For eg. a jogger in taman should deserve a pair of good shoes to protect the knees etc just as much as an athlete.

No offense bro. I do appreciate those info and help i get here. Just everytime I come in here I get some feedback that is very you yunno what i mean.

Are you saying at certain price range eg Rm1000 range or Rm2000 range, all the bike are more or less the same.

I strongly disagree as I believe there are some bikes that are better build or equiped even at the same price range. Some rides better etc. To simply say choose the color you like sound more like an insult to the budget rider.

This post has been edited by lightning69: Jun 27 2013, 03:42 PM

Don't get me wrong. I am not trying to flame here LOL. I do agree at Rm1-2k MTB are entry level which is all low end stuff, but a little more advise would be more helpful than simply choose the color....don't you all agree?

Taman mountain biker finally got a bike. Got all the components and frame yesterday.

Swissbike X70
Shimano M430 Alivio Groupset
Shimano M395 Hydraulic Disc Brake
Cane Creek A8 Headset
SUNTOUR EPICON
Truvativ Stylo T20 handle, Stem, Seatpost
Mavic Crossride
Rubar Saddle
Wellgo MG1 Peddle

Too bad I can't assemble it yet. I am going offshore tomorrow for probably 4 weeks.

My crossride front is also not compatible with the Epicon fork because the I didn't know the crossride came with 15mm thru axle while the Epicon is 9mm. Luckily I found an adapter from Mavic to convert from 15mm to 9mm QR and its coming all the way from Germany now.

Tyres not yet buy.

This post has been edited by lightning69: Sep 19 2013, 02:42 PM

Finally got to fully assemble my first mountain bike. Nothing fancy.



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This post has been edited by lightning69: Oct 8 2013, 11:19 AM

Thanks bro... Just got it assemble yesterday. Absolutely love it! Its a huge bike but luckily I am very tall. Still have not ride on it yet. Hopefully today's weather will be good so I can at lest get to test it before I go offshore again on wednesday.

My Montague specs:

Swissbike X70 frame by Montague
Truvativ Stylo T20 handle Stem Seatpost
Shimano M395 Hydraulic Disc Brake
Shimano M430 Alivio Groupset
Suntour Epicon fork with remote lock/release
Mavic Crossride Disc(downhill version) with Kenda K1010 folding type tyres
Rubar Saddle
Cycle Track Pedal

I bought the frame from a very nice gentleman in bycyclebuysell forum. Here is his post for the Montague frame he is selling. Skabt

His montague frame is confirm original. He is also selling Montague Boston frame which don't have fake in the market yet. Absolutely no reason to believe its fake. The price is as stated on his post but due to currency RM dropping like bird shit, it might increase in future.

I got all the parts from him from China except the crossride disc wheel I bought from byciclebuysell too.

Total I spend on my bike is about RM3500. Clould have been less but the shop charges RM80 for assemble fee plus smoe Rm210 for some small parts and that I miss out.

If I buy the parts in M'sia probably would cost me more than RM5000

This post has been edited by lightning69: Oct 8 2013, 11:20 AM

It's 2.15

Thanks Now is finding a group to ride with.

Wah...my saliva also drip while seeing the video! But I wonder how many guys here actually do any of this stuff or may be even a quarter of what these guys are doing?

So most of us under-utilise our bike!

We don't have highway here so we don't really need a car.

Over here we still stay on tree top.

Nokia 3210 still working!

Oh...I though this is Mountain Biking forum where you jump, jump, jump around!

Bought this from Taobao.....very good quality.