gu trials Posted July 1, 2008 Report Share Posted July 1, 2008 LoL this is probably stupid but a while back i was thinking of getting a cheap bike e.g onza t-bird, da bomb, monty 219 alp and pimping it fully with a eno or chris king and dual hopes and that but then i thought is it a waste of money or would it be a really good bike ? so basically putting all top of the range things on a crap frame haha. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El Cristoff Posted July 1, 2008 Report Share Posted July 1, 2008 That would be horrible. Imagine a three-wheeler and putting a turbo engine, sports exaust and general pimpy shit onto it.... ...get the idea? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Diz Posted July 2, 2008 Report Share Posted July 2, 2008 True....why not just pimp a proper bike rather than waste your money on a pile of crap? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
psycholist Posted July 2, 2008 Report Share Posted July 2, 2008 If the frame geometry is right then you probably won't notice too much that the frame is cheap (Apart from the weight and having it snap a lot). For XC style bikes you can get away with this sort of thing, but if you're spending serious ca$h on parts for the bike you might as well get a frame worth putting them on. Cheap frames are for jumping into lakes... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barbara Logan-Price Posted July 2, 2008 Report Share Posted July 2, 2008 surely it wouldn't be a cheap bike but a cheap frame ? which is one of the most pointless things ever cause decent parts will compliment a frames geometry but if you have a crap frame it will just be horrible Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
liam-pantera Posted July 2, 2008 Report Share Posted July 2, 2008 what u mentioned above ive done , i took a onza t bird and fitted it with top spec echo and koxx parts and it rode awsome , the t-bird is seriously under rated and can be a awsome street bike . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bikeperson45 Posted July 2, 2008 Report Share Posted July 2, 2008 Cheap frames are for jumping into lakes... And thats why i love mine Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cheesy Posted July 2, 2008 Report Share Posted July 2, 2008 i had the old da bomb school and i pimped it, it was good to ride before i went 26" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dan_addison Posted July 2, 2008 Report Share Posted July 2, 2008 You should look past all the "its a onza" sort of thing and buy a bike that feels nice for YOU to ride at the end of the day its you thats gonna be riding it, might aswell be something you like. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
16 years later Posted July 2, 2008 Report Share Posted July 2, 2008 L@@K>>>>> http://www.trials-forum.co.uk/forum/index....=111602&hl= It looks so nice, i just want to give it a ride Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wet Banana Posted July 2, 2008 Report Share Posted July 2, 2008 You get what you pay for. It's not so much the case now, but quite a while ago, if you bought a cheap trials frame, the geometry would be utter shite. Onza springs to mind, in roughly 2001-2003 basically all thier frames rode quite badly compared to what was also on the market at the same time, then they sort of caught on and decided to copy Koxx with the Levelboss/T-pro and then Zoo! with the Pitbull/T-Rex and the rest is history, now we even have Zona and all that. Even still, why do they still make and sell the T-Bird? They should just put all the cheaper parts onto a T-Pro frame and get rid of the T-Bird all together. Could be slightly biased, as I'm not a mod fan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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