2007 Brodie Dissident
Pro’s and Con’s:
A few pro’s
- Durability: The Brodie is built tough. It can take a beating and keep on ticking. Note the chainstays and yoke area as well as the headtube gussets.
- Balanced: The Dissident felt evenly weighted front to rear making the bike predictable on the ground and in the air.
- Quality parts: Brodie kitted the 2007 Dissident with all name brand parts for quality and durability.
- Stiff: The rear end was as expected stiff. Mash the pedals all you want and take high speed berms with this ride. The bike tracked confidently no matter what the terrain was.
- Shock: The rear shock only needed 50psi which is just great. If this were a different shock, to get the same effect, around 2 - 3 times the amount of air would’ve been needed.
- Tire clearance: Tire clearance was large enough for our 2.5″ Nevegals and ample room for mud clearance.
- Full seat post: The Dissident is able to run a full seat post which is nice when transitioning from discipline to discipline.
- Front derailleur: You can run a front derailleur on the Dissident which is nice to have when the going gets vertical.
A few con’s
- The seat post collar slips easily
- Full housing is always desired and I would’ve liked to see the Dissident be able to run full length housing. It not only quiets the bike, but reduces the times you have to change out cables. The Dissident ran full housing except for on the top tube.
- Bottom bracket tool clearance was an issue. The Park BBT-9 and the Shimano BB wrench style bottom bracket tools don’t work as well since the frame bulks up around this area giving minimal area to get a tool sufficiently on unless you have the socket type bottom bracket tool.
- The driveside chainstay could have more clearance for the chain and the guide. The chain guide mount area doesn’t leave too much room to rotate and the chain will probably eventually wear away at the chainstay and the pretty paint if you don’t protect it.
- Most people that buy this bike probably aren’t going to need downhill tires and tubes for its intended purposes. Brodie does however have options that fit 4x more that include the 2.35 Small Block tires and at a weight of around 33lbs.
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