any links/stories etc much appreciated .Recently started on rigid again at 53yrs age and can't understand how people can do rooty/rocky stuff at speed without serious injury!
thanks in advance
Bill
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Fully rigid, but with a 4.8" tyre so kinda cheating. 🙂
Lots and lots of Spanish rock. FF to 5.46, 7.15 and 9.55 for some of the rockiest stuff. The camera flattens things out a bit as usual.
Look for Jinya Nishiwaki riding his hardtail in Pemberton and Whistler...ooft so smooth
Friends wife rode the Mega on a fully rigid bike 2 years ago... so, I guess thats a yes.
Unless its a purpose made knarly downhill track I can't see why not. There was a time before suspension forks you know......
evidently I can't read.. ignore me!
newrobdob - MemberUnless its a purpose made knarly downhill track I can't see why not. There was a time before suspension forks you know......
Why stop there? Lad called Iain Ezzie used to race the full SDA series (Ft. Bill and Dunkeld included) on a rigid
why not? ....try it and you may see why..(well you probably won't see very well!)
It's not alpine but riding hard stuff on a rigid is great fun, I got funny looks putting my rigid carrera on the innerleithen cattle truck. Braking bumps are horrendous, mind.
I post this quite often but here's Jesse Wigman, doing the fort william endurance downhill on a rigid bike:
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He beat most of the field- I beat him by 1 place, and I was on a dh bike 😆 I could definitely ride fort william on a rigid, but he did it 13 times in a day.
Lad called Iain Ezzie used to race the full SDA series
'Race' is putting it generously 8) I would only check the results on the off-chance that I maybe hadn't come last, don't recall it ever happening! 😀
Think trailrat on here might have seriously embarrassed me at one of the Strathyre rounds when he was forced to ride rigid, but thankfully I had [s]an excuse[/s] to leave before the race runs that weekend.
I could definitely ride fort william on a rigid, but he did it 13 times in a day.
I did it once, with a mid run stop to change V-Brake pads in the midgies. Did not go up for another run.