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Originally Posted by SlimRider
Just remember: If you are going to buy an entry level mountain bike, make certain that it has a rigid fork like the Trek, above. Avoid all entry level mountain bikes with suspension forks. If you're seriously going to traverse mountain trails, or do anything at all, that's technical, you've got to have something better than an entry level suspension fork.

- Slim
I agree 1,000%
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Steel: nearly a thousand years of metallurgical development
Aluminum: barely a hundred, which one would you rather have under your butt at 30mph?
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