Originally Posted by Raiyn
While the Blast is a great bike the thread is for those more in the $500 ballpark give or take a little. $600 puts it just outside the intended parameters.
Understood.

I hesitated a little before mentioning it, looked at the thread title which is '$500 MTB Thread' and thought hmmmmm ...it probably doesn't literally mean '$500' (vs $522.75 or $469.49 or ... ; ) so I tossed it on. Anyway, this is a great thread!