Pacific YX 8500
I've recently bought a YX 3500 5 months ago, and it sucked like hell!!! It was heavy, the parts were non-brand name, and my suspention fork offered no travel at all. Im looking for a good bike with a low price, if there is such a thing. Iv'e heard about a Pacific bike called the YX 8500 and I want to know if anyone had any experience with this bike. It seems like it's a pretty good bike. It has RST Disk Brakes, RST 381 XE Triple clamp fork, Ritchey accessories, Ritchey tires, DNM Performance Shock, and an aluminum frame. Is this bike worth the money?? Also I have a question to you Pacific technicians out there, Are the rims on the YX 8500 double-walled, and does the swingarm have sealed bearings in its pivots??
Posted by Keith Rogers a 14 year old Downhiller riding a crappy Pacific YX 3500 from Layton, UT. USA on 3/09/00
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Pacific sounds like bikes that Toy R Us sells. Check out
your local bike store for some quality, albeit more
expensive, bikes. Going downhill on a cheap bike sounds
dangerous to me. If you read into the reviews of Pacific's
bikes on Mountain Bike Review, you can see they're not that
great, but good for $500. You get what you pay for, just
don't break your neck because a cheap part failed.
Posted by Endo Verendo a 32 year old Die-hard Enthusiast riding a FSR from Studio City on 3/10/00
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Yes i have seen this full suspendtion bike it dose look good for $500 my bike is a pacific 2200 mine was $340 but i would a Specialized FSR i go MTBing all the time but when i get home some thing brakes. but i am getting better with riding i jump off tables and go UP and DOWN stairs and i make it.plus the only part the has failed are my brakes untill i got $40 brakes.well that all i have to say so say on the trails and with out Mounains there would't be MTB bye
Posted by Grant Murphy a 14 year old Downhiller riding a pacific 2200 from MO ,Ballwin on 7/06/00
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yes i have herd of one of these crappy bikes i saw one at Toys r us same thing. i have also bought a Pacific it is XXXX the travel looked like it had 2 inchs thats when i got on it.even though mine was$340 yours was $500 mine was relly $260 but the brakes were also XXXX so i had to get $40 EACH Tektros vee-brakes that was better.But my bike was still XXXX iand it is also heavy as hell and suck like hell.All i was doing was looking for a full suspention bike and i get XXXX.but yes the bike is worth the money o by the way how much was that bikeż? p.s. DAMN MY BIKE DAMN IT TO HELL.......HA HA HA HA HA HA HA ....HA AND WHY NOT ANTHER HA HA ANYHOO BYE...
Posted by Grant Murphy a 14 year old Downhiller riding a pacific 2200 from MO , ballwin on 7/06/00
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yes i have herd of one of these crappy bikes i saw one at Toys r us same thing. i have also bought a Pacific it is XXXX the travel looked like it had 2 inchs thats when i got on it.even though mine was$340 yours was $500 mine was relly $260 but the brakes were also XXXX so i had to get $40 EACH Tektros vee-brakes that was better.But my bike was still XXXX iand it is also heavy as hell and suck like hell.All i was doing was looking for a full suspention bike and i get XXXX.but yes the bike is worth the money o by the way how much was that bikeż? p.s. DAMN MY BIKE DAMN IT TO HELL.......HA HA HA HA HA HA HA ....HA AND WHY NOT ANTHER HA HA ANYHOO BYE... also i dont Know why i made two or just to get my email right
Posted by Grant Murphy a 14 year old Downhiller riding a pacific 2200 from MO , ballwin on 7/06/00
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I've actually had mine for 1 year now, nothing has gone wrong with it. Suspension is still good, and it's travel is still very smooth. I've put on about 600 miles on it since I got it in September. I rode it going up some trails and it's very confortable. I've even taken it up to Mt. Baldy (if you know where that is) Everything on it is stock, all I added was a speedometer. It's very good price for $500, but take a look at the 9500. I think it's worth the $800 price.
Posted by Kevin Cheung a 24 year old Downhiller riding a Pacific YX 8500 from Claremont CA USA on 7/11/00
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I have an old Pacific hardtail in my garage.My impression of Pacific bikes is they look cool,but quality-wise they are better than a Kmart bike,but not as good as a "bike shop" bike.If you want a full suspension bike on a budget,the Giant Warp DS-2 seems better to me,but it also has problems.I prefer to buy a primo used bike that someone sunk a pile of money in but lost interest or whatever and they want to sell it cheap.Their loss,your gain.My biggest fear about buying a full-suspension bike is that with the multitude of different shocks and rapidly changing technology that a year from now the thing will break and parts will be unavailable.
Posted by Alldownhill a 39 year old Downhiller riding a Yeti hardtail from North hollywood on 7/11/00
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I hav a Pacific 8500 for 7 months and the only thing i have replaced are the tires!
Posted by Cody a 14 year old Weekend Warrior riding a Pacific 8500 w/Kenda tires from VA on 7/30/00
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