[klunky]

Im getting a new hardtail and have decided on either the evil doc or the charge blender. http://www.chargebikes.com/bikes/blender/frame_steel.html

I have not found many good high res pics of a Doc can anyone here show there builds (I have searched but not found any high res pictures)

I think I will run a single speed untill I can afford gears so the doc is edging it with the drop outs.

Any other input would help.

 

[Binaural]

Here's mine. I run mine with gears so I can use it for general XC mucking about as well.

 

[scurban]

get the Charge!

 

[klunky]

get the Charge!

Can you give me a reason? why is it better?

 

[klunky]

Here's mine. I run mine with gears so I can use it for general XC mucking about as well.

I think I might run gears on it at some point so thats a neat link.
I have an all mountian xc type bike already but you never know I might get the urge to do longer rides on the doc.

 

[Binaural]

The DOC goes quite well for a trail bike, the slack head angle makes it lots of fun to throw into loose corners (I live around Sydney in Australia, and most of my local trails are sandy). The seat mast is well supported so you can run quite a lot of seatpost extension - I'm 6'5 and while I can't get full leg extension with a 440mm Thompson seatpost it's close enough to be comfortable. Overall, I rate it pretty well as an all around bike

 

[morethanjake543]

Charge is an english company, right? So I guess that makes it faster.

But really, I'd run a charge to the uniqueness factor. Living in the US, you don't get to see many of those bikes up here. Sure, the drop outs are better for singlespeed on the DOC, so keep that in mind, but once you go to a geared setup, the only real differences would be the geo.

 

[Bicyclist]

I'll dig up pics of mine later.

 

[scurban]

Can you give me a reason? why is it better?

I just like the looks of them. It all depends on how you want to use the bike though, if you want a quicker handling dj/BSX bike get the chrage. If you want a do it all hardtail get the DOC

 

[klunky]

Charge is an english company, right? So I guess that makes it faster.

But really, I'd run a charge to the uniqueness factor. Living in the US, you don't get to see many of those bikes up here. Sure, the drop outs are better for singlespeed on the DOC, so keep that in mind, but once you go to a geared setup, the only real differences would be the geo.

Aha, I live in the UK so a Doc is pretty unique!