Just having a little debate in my head, Going to whistler next year, I will be riding all the dh bike big stuff.
However, I don’t own a dh bike, I don’t really intend on buying one either, it will never get used, I just use my sb66 for that stuff, this brings me onto my debate over what to do bike wise.
My sb66 is a small, it has your average length TT for a medium bike at a smidge over 23.1″. I run a 50m, Stem.
My concerns about running this bike in whistler is stability and strength, both of which could be solved with a medium carbon, stronger, lighter and more stable. I can’t justify buying a dedicated dh bike but can justify making my trail bike suitable.
Plan would be to run a medium carbon sb66 and 40mm stem, swap out my pikes for some 170mm vans or something for whistler.
I however don’t want to ruin what is a fun bike for the riding I do in the country, trail through to big senders, the sb in small is currently so much fun in the air, just stable enough for UK speeds.
Who has gone for the big TT and real short stem and how have you found the change?