Merlin Bikes

[Rob C]

Anyone got one of these? They look to be a pretty good buy...

[Sylv]

I don'r know but there's a nice Pinarello in Butlers for £8,000.00

[Stu Merckx Man]

i saw that bike too sylv.

i spent about 10 minutes just staring at it and looking sorry for myself, hoping someone might take pity and buy it for me

[kieran]

christmas is just around the corner...

[Jon H]

Arthur's got one. He reckons it's magic.

[Steve W]

http://www.merlinbike.com/2006/works/reviews.aspx

Penned by Huw and says it all

[Elliot M]

[quote="Sylv"]I don'r know...

[Sylv]

think it's the uk Merlin Rob was talking of
merlincycles.com or something like that

[Rob C]

http://www.merlincycles.co.uk/?fn=produ ... egoryId=39

This is what I was looking at, pretty slick? Surprised not to have heard of them before...

[Grahame]

They are quite welll known on the mountainbike world. This is their "own brand" of bikes, made in the same Taiwanese factory as approximately 1/2 of the well known brads' hardtails. Known to be very good value for money, if rather unspectacular bikes. They often have special offers of their frames equiped with "runout" groupsets - ie the end of their stock of a particular groupset, usually at about this time of year.

If you want something a little more "boutique" but still good value, look at their (steel) Rock Lobster frames.

[higg]

You can go far wrong at that price. If you added up the price of the components you're probably getting the frame for free. If you get restless after a year or so (I know I do) then it's relatively easy to swop everything to a different frame.

I did have a merlin steel (zona) frame from them a few years ago, which was quite good just a bit short and steep for me so changed it.