Originally Posted by Phatman
all of those bikes are bad for what you are doing.
its meant to take like 20 foot drops! crimminy.
The turner is not meant at all to be a "drop" bike, and though it could maybe handle a couple, 20 foot drops are cetainly not what it was designed for. Its a pure DH racer, nothing more. Also, its one of the lighter choices available for a DH bike.
To the dude who is trying to narrow his choices down: Man, that is a random sampling of bikes from low-end crap to some real quality stuff. In my opinion if you want to do everything in riding, including DH runs and XC type trail riding, that Giant AC is the only choice....but given your sampling of bikes...you probably dont even know what you want to do...in which case...any of those bikes would work until you figure out what you like. A y-bike or an old FSR are just that "old" If their designs were still competitive with todays FSRs or Trek's designs....they would still sell them. They dont however, and most of those bikes are pretty well obselete. Especially the YBike. It has whats called a URT (unified rear triangle) possibly the worst suspension design around. Only really works when sitting on the seat. Do yourself a favor and dont buy a new bike off ebay. Go to a shop and get fitted properly and tell the guy what you want to do. Then go to another shop and ask the same stuff and find a good answer for yourself.