Benji is here to persuade you not to spend lots of money, except where you should. Words: Benji This feature is intended to be a helpful guide – or reminder – to invest in some things more than others. This often involves spending money on things that aren’t very exciting. Items that give you very little retail therapy thrill. Stuff that often you resent spending any money on at all. I should at this point patronise you by coming out with something annoying and cutesy along the lines of: “The most important things are actually not on the bike at all.” Then I should blather on about the importance of bike set-up. Decent clothing. And fitness or attitude or some such yadda yadda. I’m not going to do that. You either know all that already. Or you don’t want to hear it. So let’s get back to the point of this feature. Here is an ordered list of the stuff that needs to be decent on your mountain bike. Are you ready? Here goes. 1. Brakes. 2. Tyres. 3. Everything else. The world’s greatest mountain bike is rendered rubbish if its brakes aren’t up to the job. You literally can’t ride a lot of trails if you don’t have good brakes. This is almost the same case with tyres. But I’d argue that even without decent tyres – and a modicum of skill/luck/bravery – you can still ride pretty much most things if you have the brakes to back you...
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