The rear tyre rolls fast, but you’ll want to swap it for muddy trails or going tubeless The Vigilante up front is a great aggressive all-rounder that should be fine for everything except the most foul chod. The Beeline on the rear is a hilarious drift enabler on groomed tracks and surfaced trails, although for steeper natural stuff it’s a bit out of its depth. The WTB tyres offer a decent mix of chunk and speed. A 760 mm Ritchey bar and 45 mm stem again do the job perfectly, making immediate return visits to the bike shop less likely. The grips, normally the first part to get swapped on a budget bike, are a lock-on design with a great balance of control and squish.
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The 2×10 drivetrain is full Shimano Deore, apart from the 36T Sunrace cassette and KMC chain, and the Shimano brakes and shifters sit on the same I-Spec mounts, making for a lovely uncluttered cockpit. Deore in the rear 130mm of perfectly functional forkageĪ Rock Shox Sektor fork with a proper tool-free axle is a welcome sight on a bike at this price, as is the Rock Shox Monarch R shock. Now even with all the pressure let out of the shock, the back tyre stops well shy of the frame.
They’ve also addressed the design issue with the first version of the bike, where the rear tyre could buzz the seat tube under full travel. The frame has a linkage-driven, single pivot design with a chunky, square profiled rear triangle and loads of mud clearance with 2.35” tyres. Chunky stays and tonnes of tyre clearance The budget end of the bike market still has loads of frames with short top tubes and steep head angles, so it’s great to see a value-focused company sitting up and taking notice of recent developments in geometry. It’s still 130mm travel but it’s a touch longer, and the head angle is a touch slacker, at just under 67°. This is the second iteration of the Bossnut, and it’s traded the rather decal-heavy look of the first one for a bold pinky-orange colour, which makes it look more like a custom build than a cheap bike. Stabilo Boss-nutĪssuming you can find one in your size, your grand gets you a very tidy looking bike indeed. There’s also a “ladies” version with different graphics and a couple of componentry changes, which may be of interest to diminutive gentlemen too, as it’s available in a small 15” size. However there are more on the way, and apparently there are also some dotted around stores across the UK, so a bit of phoning around may pay dividends. At the time of writing, some sizes of this bike were showing as sold out on the Go Outdoors website. The Bossnut is available in size M through to XL.
And yes, apparently you can get one on the Cycle to Work scheme. So using this, the sticker price on the Bossnut drops to £999. Instead, you pick up an annual discount card, online or in store, for the princely sum of a fiver, which gives you money off every item in the shop. The RRP of their products is mostly theoretical. Does less equal more? Proper performance on a paper round budget?įirst of all, I should explain Go Outdoors’ slightly odd pricing structure. Spoken of in hushed tones wherever bike journos gather, the Calibre Bossnut is supposed to shatter perceived wisdom about the performance of budget mountain bikes.
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Over the past year I’ve been able to get my grubby mitts on a slew of reasonably-priced full sussers, ranging from the £1600 Boardman Pro FS to the £1100 Norco Fluid 3.īut there’s one bike I couldn’t call myself a mogul of mid-price mountain bikes without slinging a leg over. I seem to be becoming Singletrack’s resident value bike expert.
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