Dean Colonel 29er [Archive]

09-04-2006, 08:39 PM

A friend bought a Dean back in Jan while he was living in Boulder, Co.

Here it it on Sunday at Tyler, Tx State Park...

http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d83/locomtb/Tyler/DSCN1020.jpg

http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d83/locomtb/DSCN1018.jpg

http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d83/locomtb/DSCN1015.jpg

MMcG

09-05-2006, 07:40 AM

Nice bike - did he have to wait forever and a day to get it from Dean though?

09-05-2006, 08:14 AM

Nice bike - did he have to wait forever and a day to get it from Dean though?

It did take a while but he was living in Boulder and visited often.

MMcG

09-05-2006, 08:38 AM

so he moved from Boulder to Louisiana??? ugh.

09-05-2006, 08:56 AM

so he moved from Boulder to Louisiana??? ugh.

It's even WORSE than that....

He moved from Louisiana to Colorado then back to Louisiana....

:plthumbsdown:

01-12-2007, 10:23 AM

The Dean has now developed a crack...

being shipped back today for repair:

http://img299.imageshack.us/img299/7516/deancrackedheadtubehg2.jpg

MMcG

01-12-2007, 01:39 PM

Never hear too many great things about Dean it seems.

Long wait times, frame screw ups, cracks.....wonder why this is?

01-12-2007, 02:16 PM

Never hear too many great things about Dean it seems.

Long wait times, frame screw ups, cracks.....wonder why this is?

the owner says Dean has a history of stress fractures where the headset is pressed in on some of their frames.

He has a Niner bike on the way tho... steel I think it is

reflux

01-12-2007, 04:44 PM

Never hear too many great things about Dean it seems.

Long wait times, frame screw ups, cracks.....wonder why this is?
Dean's quality control (rep too?) has seemingly gone downhill since about 2001 or 2002. I have a 2000 Dean steel hardtail that has held up perfectly over 5 years of riding. Based on ride quality alone, I would have no problem purchasing another Dean. Sadly though, the reasons quoted above would likely persuade me otherwise.

Guitar Ted

01-12-2007, 07:45 PM

Looks like he's short of "Reba clearence" too. (Rubber thingy on downtube) Maybe he could get them to fix that too. :rolleyes:

Drevil

01-12-2007, 11:43 PM

Looks like he's short of "Reba clearence" too. (Rubber thingy on downtube) Maybe he could get them to fix that too. :rolleyes:

That's not a shortcoming...that's a "feature". :bonk:

el-cid

01-13-2007, 08:57 PM

I wonder if there's some "who you know" with DEAN. There a guy working there (Pete Smith for anyone who knows the guys there) who ran a bike shop by here in Butte, MT for a while and anything the local riders have needed from DEAN (one friend had his Colonel "freshened up" with disc mounts and removal of the canti. mounts and another had his Ibis Mojo ti. repaired) have been done quickly and efficiently. I don't doubt the countless reports of dragging time frames though.