MBR Meta 6.2 review

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[dgould]

Not overly impressed with the rating of an 8!!

Best suspension platform, and a clear few hundred quid cheaper than the Orange/Lapierre but only an 8!!

Views hombres??

[redtill]

Seems they prefer a slighty slacker head angle & less weight.Can't blame them really although commies are much better value

[w00dy1980]

Has anyone a link to this review?

[steveb]

The mags have loved the Meta range for a few years now, too much so, but that was never going to last. Also MBR in particular have always had issues with the angles on the Meta 6. I recall last year MBR reviewed the 5.5.2 and the 5.5.xt in the same issue. The 5.5.2 got slated for having too low a BB and to steep a head angle, the 5.5.xt was raved about cus of the low BB and the tighter head angle. Go figure that one out!

Take what the mags say with a pinch of salt. Unless of course they say anything Commie is the best ever, in which case they're 100% right and you must buy one ;-)

[damo]

WMB didn't favour the 6 either. They seem to like their light weight xc bikes more though.

Damo

[cunning-stunt]

I recall MBUK reviewing the 666 with an XC build using it for singletrack, and the score reflected that.
Different people have different opinions on things, and we all know we like our Commies so who cares what some journo thought

I rate the 6 as bloody perfect for my riding (as I'm sure every other 6 owner here does...brave person who spends 2 grand then calls the bike crap) so unless a reviewer can do the riding I do on the type of terrain I ride then their opinion doesn't really count for much to me.
I can understand non Commie owners seeing the score and thinking 'hmm should I?' but 90% of bikes get a 7 or 8 so it's by no means a bad score, just in with the rest.

[cunning-stunt]

Read the review last night. Didn't think the Commie came off too badly but seeing as they said they loved the Lapierre last year I knew it was going to win before I even read the bike reviews.
I noticed they didn't make such an issue of the weight of the Commie as they did with the 'Dale but I'm a little puzzled why it only got an 8 when they obviously liked the suspension design. Does the average rider really notice slight angle issues??
If the medium is 'short' (their words) I must have tiny pathetic arms like a T-Rex because I had to stick a 55mm stem on mine to get the reach feeling right.

You know what journos are like, they have to find faults. Even on 'perfect' bikes I've seen them say that the air fork isn't adjustable as a coil/the coil fork isn't as tuneable for rider weight as air..

[cramaj]

Bike magazines should review in the following order - set up, ride, write review, measure geometry. This way they will not be influenced by a preconceived idea about what it should feel like according to geometry. 

Also they do not tell you much about the terrain that it is ridden on. These bikes should spend a half day on a quality red route, a day on a long black route and have a few runs on a DH course. This will give a good cross section of what the bike is all about.

That said these guys ride a lot more bikes than us, and probably spend a lot more time in the saddle than any of us as well, so they should know what they are talking about. Of course you cannot take account for personal riding styles or general bike geometry preferences.

Lets face it most of us are biased to Commencal on this forum and I personally have nothing to compare my meta 5 against, unless I want to take my mates bikes down the hill - which I don't. I bought the meta 5 due to the reviews of journalist, so you've got to take the good with the indifferent and the bad I'm afraid. I know that my meta's good but do I know if its better than an Orange 5 or a lapierre spicy - nope. Do I care - a wee bit. 

[Bippa]

they measured the head angle at 66.5' aswell, when commy say it's 67.5' in the slack setup

useless bloody mag people *rolls eyes*

[damo]

what, like this?

damo

[cunning-stunt]

Understand that Cramaj, but what wuld you say if I or any member here said it?

[cramaj]

Understand that Cramaj, but what wuld you say if I or any member here said it?

Said what? not with you Cunning?

[cunning-stunt]

I'm not with me either...brainfart moment I think. I have no clue as to what comment I was referring to!

Time to buy a Specialized

[dgould]

Time to buy a Specialized

There's no need for that type of talk!!! Someone call a moderator

[Graham T]

Ban the unclean one