# Advice on a mtb purchase
**URL:** https://fixed.org.au/t/advice-on-a-mtb-purchase/158156
**Category:** CX/MTB
**Created:** [June 16, 2020, 7:16am UTC](https://fixed.org.au/t/advice-on-a-mtb-purchase/158156 "2020-06-16T07:16:53Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 2
### Author:  [@Sh0rtsie](https://fixed.org.au/u/Sh0rtsie)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2020, 5:57am UTC](https://fixed.org.au/t/advice-on-a-mtb-purchase/158156/21 "2020-06-17T05:57:42Z")
Yeah. Just gotta wait it out. Thanks for all the advice. You’re all legends.
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### Author:  [@EzyLee](https://fixed.org.au/u/EzyLee)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2020, 6:00am UTC](https://fixed.org.au/t/advice-on-a-mtb-purchase/158156/22 "2020-06-17T06:00:10Z")
Just going to throw the Karate Monkey into the mix. I recently got one and it’s a lot of fun and is a super versatile bike (if more monies become available)
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### Author:  [@Zach](https://fixed.org.au/u/Zach)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2020, 6:59am UTC](https://fixed.org.au/t/advice-on-a-mtb-purchase/158156/23 "2020-06-17T06:59:22Z")
Worth the wait, I’m super jealous that y’all got Yarra trails and stuff and WNR looks so rad
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### Author:  [@Sh0rtsie](https://fixed.org.au/u/Sh0rtsie)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2020, 7:15am UTC](https://fixed.org.au/t/advice-on-a-mtb-purchase/158156/24 "2020-06-17T07:15:54Z")
Dude. So sick. It’s perfect.
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### Author:  [@EzyLee](https://fixed.org.au/u/EzyLee)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2020, 7:36am UTC](https://fixed.org.au/t/advice-on-a-mtb-purchase/158156/25 "2020-06-17T07:36:43Z")
It’s a very different ride from my Occam - but its a lot of fun.
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### Author:  [@MikeD](https://fixed.org.au/u/MikeD)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2020, 7:53am UTC](https://fixed.org.au/t/advice-on-a-mtb-purchase/158156/26 "2020-06-17T07:53:27Z")
Don’t worry the Yarra trails aren’t that good. And this time of year they are pretty sloppy
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### Author:  [@MikeD](https://fixed.org.au/u/MikeD)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2020, 7:55am UTC](https://fixed.org.au/t/advice-on-a-mtb-purchase/158156/27 "2020-06-17T07:55:00Z")
Corona caused a massive spike in bike buying! There are pretty much no medium/large entry level flat bar road bikes left in Aus!
But definitely buy a MTB.
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### Author:  [@AL9000](https://fixed.org.au/u/AL9000)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2020, 8:51am UTC](https://fixed.org.au/t/advice-on-a-mtb-purchase/158156/28 "2020-06-17T08:51:48Z")
Shimano Altus derailleurs are out of stock entirely in USA!
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### Author:  [@Sh0rtsie](https://fixed.org.au/u/Sh0rtsie)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2020, 9:02am UTC](https://fixed.org.au/t/advice-on-a-mtb-purchase/158156/29 "2020-06-17T09:02:59Z")
Altus! Really? Why them? Because they are cheap and casual?
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### Author:  [@AL9000](https://fixed.org.au/u/AL9000)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2020, 10:04am UTC](https://fixed.org.au/t/advice-on-a-mtb-purchase/158156/30 "2020-06-17T10:04:31Z")
Go to replacement for every basic bike that was dragged out from under the house and pressed into service recently.
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### Author:  [@MikeD](https://fixed.org.au/u/MikeD)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2020, 10:00pm UTC](https://fixed.org.au/t/advice-on-a-mtb-purchase/158156/31 "2020-06-17T22:00:09Z")
I heard a rumour Commuter cycles have a complete karate monkey rigid for a good price in their garage sale on Saturday. Not sure what size thou.
Edit: large
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### Author:  [@EzyLee](https://fixed.org.au/u/EzyLee)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2020, 11:54pm UTC](https://fixed.org.au/t/advice-on-a-mtb-purchase/158156/32 "2020-06-17T23:54:41Z")
SWOOP ON THAT. SWOOP SWOOP!
Yes. this is a complete sentence. (Computer bot wouldn’t let me post)
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### Author:  [@Sh0rtsie](https://fixed.org.au/u/Sh0rtsie)
#### Post date: [June 18, 2020, 1:20am UTC](https://fixed.org.au/t/advice-on-a-mtb-purchase/158156/33 "2020-06-18T01:20:52Z")
Fark. ill be there when it opens!
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### Author:  [@dallimor](https://fixed.org.au/u/dallimor)
#### Post date: [June 18, 2020, 1:47am UTC](https://fixed.org.au/t/advice-on-a-mtb-purchase/158156/34 "2020-06-18T01:47:04Z")
There’s also a rigid KM on FB Aus BIkepacking for $2200 at
[https://www.facebook.com/commerce/listing/736400990434625](https://www.facebook.com/commerce/listing/736400990434625)
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### Author:  [@Sh0rtsie](https://fixed.org.au/u/Sh0rtsie)
#### Post date: [June 18, 2020, 1:51am UTC](https://fixed.org.au/t/advice-on-a-mtb-purchase/158156/35 "2020-06-18T01:51:02Z")
Man, i keep looking at that. I just cant go that high. boy its tempting tho…
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### Author:  [@zeph](https://fixed.org.au/u/zeph)
#### Post date: [June 19, 2020, 12:01am UTC](https://fixed.org.au/t/advice-on-a-mtb-purchase/158156/36 "2020-06-19T00:01:47Z")
Also thinking about upgrading my mtb. Recently moved back to the Blue Mountains and although I love the feel of it, I’m tired of pushing my SS On One Inbred up hills. Thinking of buying a second hand Giant Anthem 2 that has popped up in the area, $1950, has a couple of scratches on the controls but can’t tell if its thrashed or just dropped once. Never spent that much on a stock bike with a bunch of tech I know nothing about (hydro/no tubes) so pretty apprehensive!
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### Author:  [@Cafe\_de\_Keirin](https://fixed.org.au/u/Cafe_de_Keirin)
#### Post date: [June 19, 2020, 3:04am UTC](https://fixed.org.au/t/advice-on-a-mtb-purchase/158156/37 "2020-06-19T03:04:11Z")
Anthem is their XC range (as you probs already know if looking). 29er? What year?
I don’t know prices, just look around. Borrowing one to ride first is a good idea to see if you like the feel.
As an aside - hydro brakes and no tubes are pretty easy to work with. I wouldn’t buy a mtb without both these days. New tools are required if you don’t have them already. To do your own brake bleeds you’ll need the bleed kit and fluid (Shimano’s pretty cheap and bleeds easy with the cup on the lever - and mineral oil is safe/paint friendly). Tubeless you’ll need a compressor in your garage, a pump with a chamber, or a separate bottle type inflator (I use a small modified fire extiguisher).
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### Author:  [@jaseyjase](https://fixed.org.au/u/jaseyjase)
#### Post date: [June 19, 2020, 4:45am UTC](https://fixed.org.au/t/advice-on-a-mtb-purchase/158156/38 "2020-06-19T04:45:06Z")
Cant link, but theres a Niner MCR on facebook (vic) $1400, you’ll need a fork. maybe too xc ?
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### Author:  [@zeph](https://fixed.org.au/u/zeph)
#### Post date: [June 19, 2020, 5:08am UTC](https://fixed.org.au/t/advice-on-a-mtb-purchase/158156/39 "2020-06-19T05:08:48Z")
the one im looking at has 27.5 wheels and its a 2018 model that looks totally stock apart from a wtb saddle.
I just went out along a firetrail on the Inbred and noticed my main problems are when im standing and really cranking to get up a steep section im using parts of my lower back that feel pretty cooked, maybe this is good for it though? (my back is pretty cooked from 20 years of lifting boxes for a living and a few million hours playing drums). And I’m thinking more suspension would be good because of all the gnarly sandstone up here being a lot of fun but also pretty exhausting on longer stretches
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### Author:  [@AL9000](https://fixed.org.au/u/AL9000)
#### Post date: [June 20, 2020, 4:03am UTC](https://fixed.org.au/t/advice-on-a-mtb-purchase/158156/40 "2020-06-20T04:03:18Z")
Well?! Didjageditthen?
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