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This is something Trekster and I were talking about on our ride today. We were saying that you don't see many Treks up here really. And then we decided that Dumfries and Galloway does not really seem to have a dominant brand of bike. Obviously Orange does well up north as it is so well suited to that kind of riding.
So just wondered, do any areas have a predominance of one type or brand of bike?
orange does quite well down south too
Hackney. Steel, retro ish, single speed, road bikes with a spattering of old sit up and begs, pub bikes, and Bromptons.
Surly seem to do quite well in East Lothian.
That London has;
Hybrid-Man! Fluo Altura jacket, no concept of using gears (or obeying the rules of the road)
Fixie-riding-(expletive deleted)-monkey - Asshats. With no concept of obeying the rules of the road)
Bikezilla - Pashley. Glamour. Lovely.
The Etape du Embankment Racer - Cervelo, Seven, or similar. Usually plenty of crabon fribe, deep section wheels and a Garmin. GRRRRRRRRRRR!
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Actually I do remember the chap in the Dumfries bike shop saying that Kona being Canadian are well suited to Scotland. This was when I was looking to buy my bike (which I still have). I guess Kona though went downhill a bit according to some people tho.
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Hey Simon. Funny, we were just talking about this on a ride yesterday. Everyone here rides differnt brands but similar types. That's fairly burly 5-6" bikes. 150-160 up front, coil sprung with home made travel adjusters. Double + Bash with XT cranks. XT everything else. 819's running Maxxis non-tubeless tyres. It's hilarious how similar everyone's bikes are.
Brands are fairly mixed but based on what local shops do. Lots of Pivots. Lots of SantaCruz's. A few Giants. Some guys have got Coves after seeing mine.
There's a little group of people who come from a tiny village in the mountains who subscribe to STW and ride Oranges, On-ones and Ragleys!
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Loads of Treks in the Purbecks, but thats mainly because Ride Cycleworks down here sell them and are very active as regards organising group rides and encouraging newbies. Plenty of Oranges and Santa Cruz for the same reason.
Todmorden area:
I see Orange 5's:
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Everywhere...........
Lots of very serious older roadies with older Rourke/Harry Hall/Ellis Briggs/Neil Orrell frames.
Loads of Ribble Audax/Winter or Surosa Audax bikes.
Loads of cubes round here
More 29ers than anything else around here, i know of 11 in about 6sq miles
There's a few 29er's up in Yorkshire also! And Orange, On One, Cannondales and Spec's!
singlespeed round here.
You get all brands round my way, 5s, zesty's, spicy's, dialled are popular being down the road, always seeing on ones too. Not many Scott's though.
Old skool, anything that is at least 5 years old....and usually under a hillwalker as a means of getting to the hill faster.
Not many Scott's though.
I think I've only ever seen two or three Scotts in real life.
Does anyone actually buy them, or is it just a huge money laundering scam?
As Thomthumb says, only ss On-Ones in the New Forest. Although a mix of steel, carbon and ti.
s'mostly stuff loike this down 'ere in Deb'n..
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Usually depends on the stock level of the nearest LBS from what I see...
...I live in the (hilly) part of SE England, so bikes round here vary between racy Trek hardtails, long travel Marins and Spesh Enduros.
Horses for courses...
Fair few Scotts down here. Bikelab used to sell them and now Ride are, so expect to see even more soon. Plenty of Specs and Cannondales from Primera, but no Giants though as no decent dealer.
Oh, and my crappy inbred 🙂
Lots of high end orange fives, all them completely unmarked, its as if they [i]never[/i] get used.
Mostly apollo bikes round this neck of the woods
Bristol - rigid SSs with hydro discs to cope with the winter mudbath.
except that the new trails here have sorted that problem so it'll be interesting to see if that changes.
East Anglian forests = XC country
So lots of Cubes and Scotts about, plus a fair smattering of Whippets (I know of at least four in our club, including my own).
No real evidence to back this up (more of hunch), but I reckon your local riding facilities lead to a 'style' of bike rather than specific brand regions (unless your choice of bike shops is limited).
Although I do see a mix of stuff round here, I get the feeling the pretty flat, twisty, wooded singletrack type of trail that the East Midlands/East Anglia does best breeds a fair few fast handling rufty-tufty hardtails.
(cross post with MrGreedy)
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Peak District: Lots of big forked, big tyred hardtails, plenty of Orange 5's. Seem to be 140mm travel stuff in general, whether that be hardtails or full sussers.
Central North Wales Coast - Lots of Specialized near me (local Spesh dealer tho) aside from the 5 in my possession. Usually Spesh's outnumber all other brands on our mid-week night rides too.
Clubber +1
Plus lots of On Ones, mainly Inbreds I think
I ride quite a lot at Glentress. So yes it does, and it's fruity.
Racy hardtails with fairly skinny tyres in the main.More 29" than 26" on our social rides too. Our concept of what constitutes a hill may be slightly different than most too.
Trax full sussers round here.
Expensive road bikes. I rarely see mtbs locally. once there was a full sus Trek being ridden down the road. And I occasionally see someone on a rockhopper.
Cube seem to dominate wau up north in the inverness area. More down to the lbs imo,which is proberbly repeated elsewhere
big wheeled singlespeeds off piste and in the hills
various boingy efforts pootling round the dogging monkey (extra bonus points to the chap on the orange blood, for being too scared/crap/ATGNI to roll down the werewolf and sitting at the top blocking the trail like a great big day-glo bike owning gimp)
Calderdale - lots of orange 5's
Lots of very serious older roadies with older Rourke/Harry Hall/Ellis Briggs/Neil Orrell frames.
Loads of Ribble Audax/Winter or Surosa Audax bikes.
Totally agree with this too
Me and my mate were overtaken by an old roadie coming into Sowerby bridge. Big ring/spittin blood type of old bloke
Scotts and Giants. But I tend to only ride/race with my XC mates so might be a bit biased. Even more so as they are mostly Scales (team got them cheap a few years ago) or Anthems (same story)
Fair amount of Orange 5s in Bristol too, as well as the SS On-Ones etc mentioned above. Plus Giants & Nicolais from what I've seen + a fair smattering of Lapierres.
All sorts in the Lakes. A good portion of Orange 5s but after that it is quite varied in my club. Last nights assault on Nan Bield had 10 riders and the machines were:
Spesh Pitch 150mm
Scott Octane +200mm/160mm
Orange Five 130mm/150mm
Pipedream h/t 140mm
Trek EX8 120mm
Cube fs something or other 150mm
Mongoose Teolcali 150mm
Orange Sub 5 130mm
Turner 5 spot 140mm/150mm
Rock Lobster B52 h/t 150mm
The most common feature appears to be chunky dual ply tyres or at least ones with extra tough sidewalls to cope with the rocks.
carrera.
Most people I know seem to have a Trek or a Cotic...or both...I have neither
I just realised that I've never seen an Orange Five. In fact, I think the only Orange I've ever seen was a P7. That I owned.
There's a definite split between types of riders here. Generally I think they could be described as 'those who cycle for fun' and 'those who cycle for fitness' (obviously those aren't exclusive categories). The fun-types are almost exclusively 140-160mm FS bikes. Built mostly for reliability rather than light-weight. The fitness-types are mostly hardtails, skinny tyres (a lot of Conti RKs), 100mm forks. Scott and, to a lesser extent, Specialized are most common due to LBS stock.
There are only 3 29ers I know of within my local area.
Treks, Specialized, Lapierre and Orbea round here. (Madrid)