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07-26-2017, 12:55 AM #26
Haaaahaaaaaa ya that out to fix his sidewalls
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07-26-2017, 02:51 PM #27
thanks for all the detailed response so far. You've given me a lot to think about.
When I got this bike and set it up, I didn't ever imagine riding downhill much. Pretty quickly realized I'd way rather ride downhill than flat. I guess I don't really know what I was thinking.
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07-26-2017, 03:33 PM #28
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07-27-2017, 04:58 PM #29
The right tire, and great technique.
http://youtu.be/jOlVJv7jAHg
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07-27-2017, 05:38 PM #30
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07-27-2017, 05:49 PM #31
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07-27-2017, 05:50 PM #32
Hell... you can ride flow/park on a cruiser bike.
https://www.pinkbike.com/news/fabio-...bike-2016.html
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07-27-2017, 08:21 PM #33
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07-29-2017, 08:30 AM #34
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07-29-2017, 03:44 PM #35
more tire pressure, genius!
Terje was right.
"We're all kooks to somebody else." -Shelby Menzel
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07-29-2017, 08:41 PM #36
2.4 Maxxis Ardent front, 2.4 Continental X-King rear.
They were cheap and available. Everything has been fine until I started riding these downhills, and basically everything is fine with that too except a few key moments really laying into a turn.
When I first got this bike, I rode it single speed with a rigid fork. It felt a lot like riding a cruiser class BMX bike; but it sucked having to pussyfoot through rocks and roots. Now it's 1X9 with an older Reba fork....less BMX like. There's too much rock and root here to just go cranking into stuff on a fully rigid bike.
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08-01-2017, 05:47 PM #37
more tire pressure has helped....so thanks.
I'm getting to where all I really do is ride up and ride down. This XC bike may have been a bad choice. :-(
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08-01-2017, 06:32 PM #38
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08-02-2017, 06:19 PM #39
Riding up on a heavy, slow bike sucks balls.
I can go faster down than most with front suspension locked out and 29" wheels.
29 is so rad.Terje was right.
"We're all kooks to somebody else." -Shelby Menzel
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08-02-2017, 06:34 PM #40Banned
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get a kona process.
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08-02-2017, 08:18 PM #41Registered User
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There are a lot of good Enduro bikes now (6" travel, up and down riding). Start looking for when you break the XC bike.....
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08-21-2017, 12:57 PM #42
That's what the shop-owning local maggot told me in person the other day. I'm shocked and disappointed at the price tag of these bikes. It's just beyond my means....in a very black and white way. The lower end (good used) is still like $1500, which is out of reach. I'm actually pretty bitter about it....I have a pretty hard time figuring how I can buy a Honda CR250 for less than a god damn bicycle. I also have a hard time figuring how the college students I constantly see riding around on these bikes managed to pull $3-5000 out of their asses for a bicycle.
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08-21-2017, 01:01 PM #43
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08-21-2017, 01:20 PM #44
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08-21-2017, 01:54 PM #45Registered User
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08-21-2017, 03:34 PM #46
Email from evo today has sales on devinci and transition
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08-21-2017, 04:15 PM #47
Cut back on booze and going out to eat for a couple months? Put it on a credit card and pay it off over time? Small loan from a bank? Drive uber in your spare time for awhile?
But I do agree that bikes are absurdly expensive. The 2018 aluminum hei hei I was just looking at has a sticker price of $3100 and you think "hey that's a pretty good price;" 1300 less than the carbon version with the same components.
I got my road bike for less than a third of msrp and it was still a lot of money. And I still wouldn't have been able to afford it if the shop owner hadn't let me pay him over time.Last edited by jamal; 08-21-2017 at 09:59 PM.
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08-21-2017, 04:20 PM #48
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08-21-2017, 05:45 PM #49
Yeah that's kinda tough to cough up $5k for a bike for a large majority of people. I scraped by for most of the last 15 years spending a few hundred a year (or far less) on various gradual upgrades to a FS bike, but recently splurged in the last 3 years for a new frame (on closeout) and eventually built up a pretty high end bike for about $3.2K exactly as it sits - all M980 10 speed XTR, custom wheels with hadley hubs, aftermarket RS suspension, ks dropper, tubeless, good cockpit, etc. Would probably run about $6-7K new from a shop for something comparable in the current model year. Totally overkill for my riding these days, but not as exotic as the Ti hardtail I built up in the 1990's, and I can appreciate a high end bike.
Anyway, it's not too hard to get into full suspension on the cheap. There are plenty of mid range 26" bikes on ebay or pinkbike around $1K range or less. If you look hard enough, you can get a FS frame for $300-500, and a long travel fork for $200, if you wanted to swap over your current parts. If you're really just riding up/down bike park type stuff, you should consider getting into a 26" bike park friendly bike, and sell your current bike. Here's an SX Trail that's been on ebay for a while, $800 would take it, but I'd try to pay like $650 for it:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/2009-Special...0AAOSwZKBZI11X
There was one last month for $1000 with a really good parts spec and slightly better condition.Last edited by Damian Sanders; 08-21-2017 at 07:46 PM.
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08-21-2017, 05:55 PM #50
You can get a solid 26"DH bike for $900 bucks now. Fucking buyers market.
But yea, mountain biking is for people with extra money.However many are in a shit ton.
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