BikeRadar's sister magazine What Mountain Bike has been hammering a series of budget mountain bikes to separate the wheat from the chaff. Here we take a look at five steeds at or just below the crucial £1,000 price point – the Marin Nail Trail 9.6, Claud Butler Alpina 2.8, 13 Incline Gamma, Specialized Rockhopper Expert and Calibre Bossnut.
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At this level we found a lot of similarities – cross country-oriented spec, 1x or 2x cranksets and air sprung forks are the order of the day. You definitely don't want to see crude coil-sprung forks when shelling out this sort of cash, and you're also ideally looking for 10-speed drivetrains with clutch derailleurs, brakes from SRAM or Shimano and 15mm thru-axles.
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All the bikes on test here are hardtails, with the exception of the Bossnut, a debut full-sus machine from the unlikely source of UK mega-retailer GO Outdoors. It's already garnered a strong review on BikeRadar, but how does it compare to its price point peers?
We'll be rolling out full reviews of the cream of the budget MTB crop – stay tuned over the coming weeks…
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