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01-15-2020, 03:47 PM #151
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01-15-2020, 03:54 PM #152
Anyone ever ridden a Propain? I've actually never seen one in person. This one is sure nice to look at:
https://www.pinkbike.com/news/first-...tyee-2020.htmlIt makes perfect sense...until you think about it.
I suspect there's logic behind the madness, but I'm too dumb to see it.
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01-15-2020, 05:45 PM #153
They're not available in North America yet, though the company says soon. Some previous generations had kind of weird behind the front triangle shocks, but I love the new Tyee. It seems very competitive with the RAAW above (though a little more all around vs. DH oriented and not as cool). A good week for long travel 29er releases.
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01-16-2020, 06:25 AM #154
2020 bikes that make your shorts tight
Close to pulling the trigger on one of these, presale 10% off and custom colors, sale applies to full builds too, which seem to be a pretty bangin’ deal for the price. Anybody got any real word beta on these?
https://polebicycles.com/polestore/p...olor-pre-sale/
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01-16-2020, 08:23 AM #155
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01-16-2020, 01:50 PM #156
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01-16-2020, 01:57 PM #157
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01-16-2020, 02:03 PM #158
Maybe how big we are? I don't know about the other guys, but I'm a bit over 6'2" and so am almost always on XL frames. With the length of front ends these days, 445mm chainstays on an XL bike seems pretty good for balance. Though my current 27.5 bike's are 439, so maybe I just missed the super short chainstay generation of bikes.
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01-16-2020, 02:23 PM #159
If I were doing a lot of rock crawling -style riding in the SW, I’d be more interested in short chainstays. For the wide-open trails we have in MT, they get squirrelly.
I built a Yelli Screamy in 2011 and it was my first bike with a HTA less than 70. It also had 424mm chainstays. The Yelli had a short wheelbase- 1103mm in large, so the whole package was fun, but not very stable at speed. At least not compared to the bikes I’ve enjoyed since. The Yelli quickly taught me to ride the front wheel, because if you didn’t you were definitely going to wash out.
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01-16-2020, 02:58 PM #160yelgatgab
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2020 bikes that make your shorts tight
No. Stability is currently king above every other handling characteristic.
BB heights seem to be creeping up a bit, too.
ETA, holistic geo changes definitely make sense as frame size increase, particularly with XL and XXL bikes. As an average sized person, I still like short stays.Remind me. We'll send him a red cap and a Speedo.
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01-16-2020, 03:09 PM #161
I like shorter stays for the insta-wheelie drop factor.
As evasive says though, more for low speed technical prowess as opposed to balls-out haulin’.Forum Cross Pollinator, gratuitously strident
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01-16-2020, 03:15 PM #162
I think it's just about balance with the front ends becoming so long. Read almost any review of the SB150 and you'll see writers talking about how aggressively forward it has to be ridden given its long front end and short chainstays.
My only experience on a long travel 29er is on the previous gen Enduro. It has the same chainstay length as the SB150, but a much shorter front end. It didn't feel unbalanced to me (though now that I think about it, the only time I dropped it was washing out the front end). Still, for a big bike for big terrain, 445mm chainstays on an XL bike seem about right to me. I wouldn't go for stays that long for where I live at the moment, but for some potential relocation spots they seem fine. Or on a second bike to ride park more where I'm moving faster more often.
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01-16-2020, 07:48 PM #163
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01-16-2020, 09:20 PM #164
Hoping balanced will be the feel. Enduro review sounds fun: https://enduro-mtb.com/en/pole-taival-hardtail-review/
I line up in the large recommendation on their site but the geometry makes me think I could pull of a medium. We’ll see.
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01-16-2020, 09:32 PM #165
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01-16-2020, 10:11 PM #166
Yeah. I'm a medium by their recommendation, but that thing is huge. I've spent a lot of time on a large guerrilla gravity, which has similar numbers to pole's medium. I felt like it was a bit too big, and I lost some playfulness with it. And especially for a hardtail, I'd rather retain that playfulness - I'm not trying to replace my enduro sled with a hardtail. I'd rather have it be more flickable and fun on jumps. Which means I'm looking at the small, which isn't a sentence I've ever said before regarding a bike.
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01-16-2020, 10:47 PM #167
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01-16-2020, 10:49 PM #168
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01-16-2020, 11:01 PM #169
Id like an aluminum Ripley
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01-17-2020, 12:04 AM #170
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01-17-2020, 07:29 AM #171
Never ridden one, but I would never want to deal with Pole as a company. The bike below broke during a test and Pole claimed that it was shipped with an xc rear end ( they don’t even make an xc bike). They pretty much just gave a bunch of bs instead of owning up to the failure.
https://m.pinkbike.com/news/field-te...rail-bike.html
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01-17-2020, 07:44 AM #172Registered User
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01-17-2020, 07:49 AM #173
For whatever it's worth, I'm pretty sure BTR makes those pole branded hardtails.
The pinkbike thing is funny. The pole breaks, they offer an explanation, everyone hates them now. The rocky mountain also breaks (and causes an injury), rocky doesn't really offer much of an explanation, and everyone is completely willing to overlook it. The same thing as the pole happened with yetis a few years back ("prototype" test bike broke during test). Everyone seems to have gotten over that by now.
Not defending pole or rocky (or yeti) since I think all of those failures are kinda bullshit. And I think it's safe to say that pole will be a hassle to deal with, mostly because they're a tiny company in Finland. But buying a hardtail from them doesn't make me anymore nervous than buying a hardtail from any other small foreign company.
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01-17-2020, 09:07 AM #174
Says the guy on a 6 year old bike. Stop trying to extrapolate out from your limited viewpoint and try some new rigs. Canfield paved the way forward for a brief moment, but the the world has charged past them.
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01-17-2020, 09:42 AM #175yelgatgab
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Remind me. We'll send him a red cap and a Speedo.
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