rumours, urban legends, sales pitches, utter cock or just good old Bull...
let us have them..
Titanium frames are more comfortable than aluminium ones.
that CRC employ humans capable of answering a ****ing phone call 🙁
That it matters how heavy your bike is 😉
Apparently cars cost the same as many reasonable quality bikes.
And many saddles are as uncomfortable as razor blades.
"These bloody forks aren't working properly"
Spoken by Hora at the bottom of every single descent. Even though they're the 27th different set he's owned in the last year
BBs need facing
Wheelbuilding is difficult
29ers inherently suit taller riders better
CK headsets are good value for money (at usual retail prices)
Steel frames are all springy, aluminium ones all stiff and dead.
Carbon is crap for mtbs because of lack of impact resistance
Wavy/bent/skinny seat/chainstays make the back end of the bike comfortable
8/9/10 speed is weaker and wears significantly faster than the previous iteration and clogs with mud more.
Pretty much any material science stuff that the mags print (which I note ST mag rarely does - thumbs up!)
You NEED x inches of travel for a particular type of riding or conversely that just because one of the STW-heroes has cleaned a 2 mile vertical drop on a cx bike with a spike for a saddle, skinny tyres at 1000psi and no brakes that everyone else can do so and more importantly will enjoy it.
Tubeless tires means less flats.
"My helmet, almost certainly!, saved my life!" 🙄
That weight doesn't matter.
'i cant bunnyhop without clips'
no son, you cant bunnyhop...
That there's a 'proper' way to bunnyhop (yes, I can do it with flats 😉 )
XC is mountain biking...
SS will **** your knees (good on this one)
Steve peat beat grum going down
Commuting by bike isn't dangerous
England has 'moutains'
Balls is the only thing you need to jump
SFB got one problem
WOOOOHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO. You really couldn't make it up.
The Enigma has just emailed me moaning about his new forks. And using them as a lame-arse excuse for not riding tomorrow night.
Hora - you're becoming a cliche 😉
brake pad bedding-in
Lightweight bikes would break on proper mountain bike trails, and corollary that if you can do it on a lightweight bike it's not proper MTBing.
XC isn't mountain biking.
To get fit on a MTB you don't need to do loads on a road bike. 8)
Forestry commission ranger recently likened MTBing to
Dragging a ships anchor across the Great barrier Reef 😯
a bit of a stretch I though, but nobody was going to argue, not worth the effort
from my missus
"you can get a decent mountain bike in town for a hundred quid! why does anyone need to spend £X? it just a bike"
👿
that bikes cause more erosion than horses
Most stuff written in MBR
Jeff Jones' bikes look good
People describing bikes or components as 'sexy'
Cleaning bikes it s waste of time
This full suss frame completely eliminates pedal bob
helmets aren't effective, anyone claiming so is delusional and under the influence of big helmet-y business
this or that kit is a game-changer (not always incorrect only 99% of the time...)
Quarries are good
There is a fat-burning zone
Steve Peat for Sports Personality of the Year
And according to a Hovis packet I've got here, Victoria Pendleton rides a bike with a chainring on the left, using Adidas trainers and clips'n'straps.
it wasnt very good at "x" location the other day.the surface was really "squirrely"
a)WTF is "squirrely"?
b)is that even a word?
b)is that even a word?
if it is, it sounds good :o)
every year a company launches a new suspension platfrom it is 150% better than last years
V brakes aren't powerful enough.
"bikes aren't allowed here"
Things I've seen at Swinley.............
Newbies on £2500 bikes becasue Evans told them thats what was required.
A guy on a stumpjumper HT (the 90mm forked XC bike) in full on starship trooper gear.
No I said I don't fancy riding the 7.5lb 66's on my bike tomorrow night! They are just too overkill and chuffin heavy. The Distributors have sent me a brand new set of forks yesterday after giving up on the previous ones so should be with me tomorrow... hence I've mentally moved on from using the iron girder forks and cant wait to ride on something luvly again!
My ..28th? pair 
spds are more efficient
anything to do with the Q factor
29ers
69ers
skills training
That larger tyres at the same pressure exert more 'force' on the rim... 😉
hmmmm seen it rather than heard it.
no problem with pads at all... but people riding with body armour strapped to their bags/back for them to put on for the 'tech'/dh sections.
either wear it, or dont wear it FFS.
Fox getting their 2010 prices wrong. I guess Mojo misjudged what the market would pay...
anything to do with the Q factor
Are you sure?
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Anything talkytalky says
west kipper - Member
"My helmet, almost certainly!, saved my life!"
oi, sometimes these things are quite true, much like having a pressure suit probably saving spine, shoulders and ribs!
spds are more efficient
anything to do with the Q factor
29ers
69ers
skills training
Are you sure about all of these [b]HoratioHufnagel[/b]? 😉
That Fox are interested in supplying after-market forks rather than just getting as many forks on OEM bikes as possible.
Skills training tosh? Obviously not done a decent course!!
no problem with pads at all... but people riding with body armour strapped to their bags/back for them to put on for the 'tech'/dh sections.
That be me that be! What's the problem with it? Have you ridden laggan black or CBM? I'll carry the pads up for the first descent after a long lay off of gnar, such as after this winter where after 4 months snow is still a factor, but usually don't bother with them at all. I certainly don't like doing a 750m climb with them on. Canny see your issue but each to their own.
That taking 2000+ photos during a ride doesn't interrupt the riding!! 😉
That anything sub-Deore level isn't worth having on an MTB.
Most stuff written in MBR
Jeff Jones' bikes look good
+1
That taking 2000+ photos during a ride doesn't interrupt the riding!!
gosh I'm jealous, my max was 1283 in 5 hours last Saturday :o)
each to their own indeed. just find it amusing when the top of glentress looks like everest base camp, with 50 riders all decamping and redressing for a 5 minute downhill!
then presumably stopping and getting changed again as soon as it rises up!
Ali frames are more or even as comfortable as Ti ones.
Had to add as my Pace RC300 could rattle loose the fillings on anyone within 5m of her!
Ti + 29 = buttery smoooooooth!
STW
Ti + 29 = buttery smoooooooth!
Rubbish.
Ti is not inherently smooth, it can just be used to be so (and not always done so, even when claimed)
29ers are typically smoother though but again, the frame design will have a large influence on that.
Ti + 29 = buttery smoooooooth!
Ti is not inherently smooth, it can just be used to be so
We're still doing "biggest load of tosh" here I presume?
how come everyone here hates bodyarmour so much?
That it's cool.
anything said by gearies about single speed
anything Lord Coe says
who hates body armour? the only time i dont wear knee pads is when im on my road bike...
There is nothing wrong with body armour.
Nothing. So what if someone wears it at a trail centre. Are you going to pay his mortgage for him?
If the people against body armour are soo good why do you wear helmets and gloves?
That most of us will never hit anything like the limits of our bikes
That it's about anything other than having fun
That better equipment can make you a better rider
That riding a bike is a "challenge"
That full body armour is required for a bit of local XC (I am coming round to knee pads being useful for some)
There is nothing wrong with body armour.
methinks the laddy doth protest too much 🙂
er, that people that spend all their time on forums are also experts on things that happen in the real world.....
that on-one make good value decent frames.
You need at least x amount of travel to ride suchandsuch a trail
I once heard someone claim an SS to be significently quicker round a trail centre than a geared bike..
Scratched my head a bit at that one..
That having full sus/disc brakes/etc automatically make every aspect of riding X percent easier. I have proved this theory by being equally shonky on any bike 🙂
The black at laggan is gnar and difficult...
sfb
Tandemjermy's small rotors make your brakes better theory.
That you have to lube your chain before every ride (I've switched to putoline chain wax*).
Not quite had the confidence to leave it for more than a month without giving it a dip, but it still feels gummy/tacky after that time so must be doing tis job.
*for those of you who dont know MX or classic motor bikes, this is a horrible, sulphurus waxy lube not to dissimilar to a gear oil (but obviously heavier) and full of graphite/carbon. You melt the tin (the size of a tin of roses but only 2" deep) on the stove and dip the chain in before hanging it up to drip the excess off. Best done outdoors, when no ones in as the smell is an aquired taste.
the word "organic" when used to describe a bike component....yeeeuch !
That any type of cycle specific clothing can look 'cool down the pub'
That rotational injuries are a significant cause of rider damage
That a bike designed in a shed is better than one designed in an office
That it's possible to be 'overbiked'
That frame material is more important than frame design
That riding round a field for a day is 'enduro'
and as for
how come everyone here hates bodyarmour so much?
dress for the ride, not the crash 😉
Funny thread - many statements people claiming as bollox that are proven to be true. - and scotchegg - how about not inventing things I say? I say plenty of stuff without you inventing things.
thisisnotaspoon - are you a convert then?
hmmm on padding...
that d30 will save you from anything...
from bike radar: "Impact absorption is down on the Kyle Strait, because It doesn’t have the hard plastic insert"
well the kyle strait insert is made of a plastic softer than tuppaware... so...
That any type of cycle specific clothing can look 'cool down the pub'
That a bike designed in a shed is better than one designed in an office
That riding round a field for a day is 'enduro'
Yeah now you've seen what you've done... I have to agree with him 😐
Hora: "the only bike i'll ever need, i'm keeping this one"
that the bicycle is a serious form of transport
what tyre for . . .
that the bicycle is a serious form of transport
Are you sugesting that it is inadequate to meet the transport needs of a modern society, or that they are ridden by people with big feet and red noses?
My SO / children asking "Did you win?" when I get back home from a race... did I ever? 🙄
I'll never enter anything that I don't have a outside chance of winning. Hence I never enter **** all!
if your not falling off you are not trying hard enough!
The Orange 5 is an ugly bike.
Yes, don't get me started on the Five. Rehashed single pivot frame that has two mags drooling over it.
"Do I need [Insert particular product reference here]"
NO!!!!! We WANT, not NEED