Hello everyone...great forums you have here!

I'm assuming that 500$ is in US dollars, so I thought that these bikes were close enough ~850$ or 1099CDN, and I didn't want to clutter the rest of the forum with such a generic question.
I was just wondering which you guys thought of these 2 bikes I had in mind,

a '05 Kona cinder cone

http://www.konaworld.com/2k4bikes/2k...inder_cone.cfm


or a '05 Giant Rainier, on their website they only have the 04 model, but the front susp is now a Marzzochi UTX I think,air/coil I believe (damn shoulda wrote it down, thought they'd have it on their web-site)? And instead of shimano components, they are using some german components, which the salesperson told me were on the level of the shimano deore's.


both are going for 1099 CDN.

These are pretty much my only choices here (at least that i've found) so I have to make do.

Any thoughts are appreciated.

Thanks!