Nothing more to add really except. .mleh..bikes...just dull dull dull. Selling up to find a new sport / pastime
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Doesn't seem insurmountable. Just sell the 29er and buy the funnest 26/650b-er that you can find.
Go to Antur Stiniog and get loose!
CFH - Flounce Two-Niner, surely?
Op, serious?
Ooooooo a kitten! Is he he bored as well? Is that why its on a plane?
Bikes are bikes.. maybe you're doing it wrong?
Talk to us.
take up robin bumming instead
Been done......
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Or try a bike with an engine, they're fun.
where's the 'like' button for what wors just said?
I can recomend all day drinking sessions as a new sport.
It's a bit like singlespeeding but with out the bike.
Try kitesurfing 😀
singlespeedstu - Member
I can recomend all day drinking sessions as a new sport.It's a bit like singlespeeding but with out the [s]bike[/s] beards.
FTFY 😉
Motorbiking used to basically be my entire spare time, I was so into it, then one day I wasn't, the bike's not moved since and I don't regret it. Now it's pushbikes, and if some day they stop being brilliant, they'll get sacked too and I'll take up backgammon, or wing suit diving, or casual racism or something.
I hope they don't though, bikes are ****ing fantastic.
Clubber have you seen a camra member..all beardy and smelly and socially inept...just like a singlespeederist
If your bored of biking after 25 years then i don't think an inch or two on wheel size is gonna change anything. I'm confused why you've listed that in the same sentence? Either way, maybe you should get a new hobby, but i wouldn't start looking for that hobby in a biking forum with a attention seeking post.
have you seen a camra member..all beardy and smelly and socially inept
I'll keep an eye out for you at the next beer festival then Tazz.
I'll take some of your unwanted bike tat off you if you're not going to use it again. 😉
How about that shitty Jones shopper thing? Amanda could do with something to nip to the village on. I recon that'd be just the thing for it.
Northwind - MemberMotorbiking used to basically be my entire spare time, I was so into it, then one day I wasn't, the bike's not moved since and I don't regret it.
I didn't miss it either.....
But a lad I work with has just bought an Aprilia RS125.
Seeing his enthusiasm just makes me want another one.
And some idiot let me have a pop on a trials bike last week up at a local quarry. 😐
Want one.
Do not despair,all is not lost 😉
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Go on,you know you want to
Stu...I dont think amanda could ride that jones shopper tat...she has too much style to seen on such a contraption.
Superted666 not really attention seeking is it..just a statment..to keep ton from getting bored to be honest 😀
Please can you list all bikes in my size which you wish to rehome. I should be able to accommodate a few without charge. Email in profile.
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Obviously..... but i would like to know what new shiny titanium bits he's got to play on.
CFH 😀
just trying to keep the big fella amused..i have texted Ton some pics of my naked body as well...then remembered he has a dodgy ticker so carefully edited them with strategically placed kittens
oooo just some more black sheep titanium stuff...custom forks and bars. it'll ride like gash no doubt but create a little attention vortex all around me, so even mincing slowly and being laughed at by the "cool kids" I will still feel like I'm special 😆
29'ers haven't been around that long dumb ass.
Jcl..since the 80's numb nuts geoff apps was building them in 1981
Still love bikes, but love boats and sailing about equal. Get another sport while you like cycling to make sure you keep the love.
I'd sail rather bike if sailing wasn't so ****in expensive & I had the time I'd like to devote to it...But hey ho,bikes will have to do until I retire..........
Have you just had a look at Giant's website, and now feel like you've got the wrong wheel size *again*.
Don't worry, they'll do it again in two years - and instead of saying they're just bleeding you dry, it'll be a revolution.
Motorbiking used to basically be my entire spare time, I was so into it, then one day I wasn't, the bike's not moved since and I don't regret it. Now it's pushbikes
I believe this is happening to me. I rode my bike to the MOT station last year, then rode it back and put it under it's sheet. It hasn't moved since. If I get spare time, I'd rather go out on my push bike.
Yeah yeah, everything's rubbish, boo hoo.
Cheer up, it's Christmas
and a Happy New Year
ed
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tazzymtb - Member
Nothing more to add really except. .mleh..bikes...just dull dull dull. Selling up to find a new sport / pastime
see you later then 😉
Thanks ed..feel better...turns out it wasn't discontentment with bike..but constipation
Its a side effect of bumming Robbins 🙂
It was never about the bikes.
I hired a 29er a while back, didn't like it much. I've solved the problem by not buying one.
Northwind - Member
Motorbiking used to basically be my entire spare time, I was so into it, then one day I wasn't, the bike's not moved since and I don't regret it. Now it's pushbikes, and if some day they stop being brilliant, they'll get sacked too and I'll take up backgammon, or wing suit diving, or casual racism or something.
Casual racism is great. I hated having to get all dressed up to do it.
Are you like one of those people that announces they are going to delete their Facebook account, only to magically re-appear a few days and expect loads and loads of attention? 😉
god lord no..it was purely to keep young ton amused and follow up with the trend of bored and mleh threads this morning. If I was going I would simply slope off..no need for drama queen moments..it's so ungentlemanly 🙂
final realisation that 29ers are a bit crap
It's great you have realised it, some never do 😆
I'm not much into riding at the moment, I can't seem to find the motivation when it is pissing it down, muddy and dark.
Once the trails have frozen over I'm sure I'll be keener.
Oooh blacksheep, post a piccie. The swoopy bars and forks will give you muchos attention whoring points.
Get a road bike and rediscover cycling. The same happened to me after 22 years of mud and now I'm even fitter than I was then.
Jcl..since the 80's numb nuts geoff apps was building them in 1981
We'll that's BS for a start. I know for a fact he was participating in Worlds Strongest Man that year.
😀 fool
Do biking differently 🙂 Downhill, or 4x or something. Trail/xc bores me these days, so I'm adding dh and maybe racing into the mix
To the OP's point, sometimes buying the 'wrong' bike can be a bad thing. I haven't come close to quitting, but may know where he's coming from.
I've found that going to bigger/less engaging bikes damps my enthusiasm a bit. Long-travel 29ers and 6in 26in bikes whose capabilities that I'll never live up to make climbing less fun and descending a bit numb. I don't think it's just me- the bigger friends' bikes get, the less they seem to ride over time.
It may not be as crazy as it sounds at first blush. I've sold off a few bikes that didn't excite me and just ride the bike that's best suited to my tastes and local trails. In any case, trying a bike that you're [i]excited [/i]about (be it 26in, 650b, singlespeed, or 'other') may well be worth a shot if you've been riding that long...
I felt like this for a bit after going tubeless. Took up twerking and didn't touch the bike for six months. Eventually my wife got Nick Knowles and the DIY SOS team to do a shed makeover for me and that put me right.
We'll that's BS for a start. I know for a fact he was participating in Worlds Strongest Man that year.
ha ha ha 😀
Bye
Take up Magpie spotting, so far I'm up to 6.
The key is to look out for the tiny differences like a slightly different hop(bit like Ministry of funny walks) or tilt of the beak.
Have a glug of Absinthe, Taz. After a pint of that even fat bikes look attractive... 8)
Unovolo- stick at 6- gold is better than secrets never to be told in my book
I was having this conversation yesterday, and while most designers can build a bike for most things, the wheel size always has the well documented impacts on the ride that we've all read about.
Via a via, chose your weapon; if you want quick and snappy then smaller wheels; if you want more centrifugal rolling capability get bigger wheels. If you want the best of / to compromise both, get 650b.
Bit has been said, it's more about the bike you enjoy riding.
Just to clarify. .I love me bikes and riding..this was purely a thread started on the day of the misery guts rants about how it was all doom n gloom on silly track world. 😀
Thanks for the lovely supportive comments though..and psling ia spot on..its always better after a pint of green evil
Theres only one proper place for 29er wheels, and that's on a cyclocross bike 🙂 saying that wouldn't part with my RC129 it's a great just go for a pootle fun ride that isn't training.
Yep got a cyclo cross as well fun when its sloppy for puking a lung
Theres only one proper place for 29er wheels, and that's on a cyclocross bike
Been there, done it and sold it. There are only ever two bikes you need to own, a MTB and a road bike.
Ive yet to find anybody who whilst riding their CX bike on road, wished to be on a road bike and off road, were wishing for a MTB. Like i said if you RACE CX that does justify it but for casual use, no way!. Sorry.
Cx bikes are great I used to love being out in the yorks dales on one in any weather.