[Closed] ever been bored by your bike? please help

I tried this, it didn't work.

Bought a boat instead. Now riding bikes more than I used to!

Recumbent!

Never bored of a bicycle but a Honda VFR750 was efficiently boring and left me cold. It did everything well but had no emotion for me.

Don't buy using your head use your heart. Life is too short to waste.

Swift?

Though I thought you had one. In which case can I have it?

Isn't it the riding, rather than the bikes that is the 'exciting' bit.

I don't even think about my bike when I'm riding it.
Same way that I don't think about my TV while watching a film or the glass that my beer is being drunk from.

Any new bike is surely going to have a fairly short 'novelty' period before it's 'just another bike' again.
Do you have a fat bike? Apparently they make you grin from ear to ear for your entire ride!! 😀

I think you need to look at where and how you are riding more than the bike you're doing it on.

Bivvy? Multi day B&B tours with minimal luggage? Proper touring with huge panniers? New group of people to ride with? Organise local 'beginners' rides? Get an 'mtb guide' qualification?

650b bring the trails alive....allegedly

Road trip - riding, not the bikes, should be exciting 🙂

29ers make it aliverer

Maybe it's time to try something titanium without straight tubes?

ever been bored by your bike?

The conversation is a bit one sided I'll admit...

TBH I find its more the riding not the bikes that keeps me interested, People seem to get a little caught up in the aesthetics and bling of their [I]"Steed"[/I] and forget its simply a tool for having fun, yeah OK its a bonus if they look nice but I don't think its essential...

If it can't actually do what you want it to then I can see the case for a change, but if you just want something new and novel for the sake of it? Well there's always Fat Bikes I suppose...

I am just waiting on delivery of a [url= http://www.chromagbikes.com/frames/samurai65 ]Chromag Samurai65[/url]. This is replacing about 3 bikes that I had become a bit jaded with.

It's expensive, a custom colour, and between thinking about it and waiting for it to show it's been more than 6 months in coming. I'm looking forward to it enormously.

I nearly went for a 2Souls Quarterhorse mind... 🙂

Unicycle?

Too much choice makes for serial bike buyer! As someone else has said, it maybe not the bike that's boring but the availability of your regular riding areas......like everyone that lives in the Midlands knows, if you don't get in the car to start your ride somewhere different once a month " local" riding does dull the enjoyment be it on any off road routes or even road rides.
My advice is try having a month away from touching any of your bikes, go for a walk, take in a couple of towns and villages architecture or historical sites or buildings.
After a month go and ride a bike, any bike, anywhere and see if it re kindles the love of riding a bike then decide on what to cut/ change in your fleet.

The One One Codine seems all the rage now?

Considering your local riding, what about something like a Bfe for messing around on in the woods - really brought my skills on and way better than a Soul IMO. Alternatively, do something with an old frame - I've had great fun taking a boggo old Rockhopper frame and building it up with decent strong second hand parts but in a really light weight build - great for the NW Alps and Cannock. Incidently, you may spot the missus on it tonight if you are out riding.

Design your own

29ers have spoiled it for you, rolling over everything... 😀

I'd love a Chromag Surface, a lot of £££ in shipping.

@ BigDummy - did you buy direct or from shorelines?

Faaaatty - all smiles per miles 🙂

havent ridden my 29er since i bought a fat bike and it also makes me appreciate my mojo hd more when i ride the 26er

if its about enjoying being on the bike a fatty is brilliant, great fun and lots of grinning, who cares how fast im going?

if you want to go fast - still take the Fatty, plenty of hairy moments, new (sometimes unintended) lines and plenty of bouncing still a laugh and very enjoyable, the grip is staggering.

cant lose by trying one?

Stop poncing around and get yourself a Fat Bike you know you want to.

Fat Bike denial can't last for ever.

even though I love riding I'm a bit bored with them

I sympathise with this, by the way.

rewski - it's come through Shorelines. I don't know whether they are exclusive UK distributor or not.

"it's not about the bike"...ooops

I'm bored with XC, not with bikes, nor with my bike. But it's getting on my nerves just being days of boring trails

All sound advice, I might even consider bent tubes!

Not sure on a fat bike, tried it, was a bit meh

Get a slackset and fit it negatively giving a steeper head angle for a more exciting feel.

If you want an exciting bike, you need one that's bad at something. You want to make performance compromises.

E.g. a spanky xc weapon, breathtakingly fast on climbs, cruising down flowy singletrack like a missile...but then hit a rocky descent and you have to bring your A game or end up on your face.

Or a slack enduro gnarpoon, long, low, awkward at slow speed, but get it up to speed and it goes like the clappers, and you can get yourself into all sorts of trouble and somehow find a way out.

That's my two MTBs anyhow...

I've been trying to ride somewhere different every weekend this year, and not revisit the same old places. Studying strava, and seeing where other people ride.

Another aim I have is to find a new section of trail on every ride - even if its a few 100m. But then I enjoy scouring maps/google earth for routes...

Certainly made riding a lot more interesting. Spend money on fuel instead of bike bits :o)

take your cheapest bike, buy a hack saw and saw half way through each weld, this might make things a bit more exciting.

Might not be worth it though.

BigDummy - Member

even though I love riding I'm a bit bored with them

I sympathise with this, by the way.

Me too.

Nothing other than selling the lot, keeping one will do. Then ride it, go places where you feel you'd like to spend more time, if it's bumps then maybe a decent FS, if it's XC singletrack then a HT.. I dunno.

Maybe try a custom build. Risk is you may spend a lot of dosh to find out it's not going to fit in your current riding habbits.

Maybe thats it..

You've got into a rut of riding habbits?

Dunno, dunno why I'm trying to help either 🙄

rOcKeTdOg
Nothing is exciting me.

Excite me STW!

Go make an effort to ride somewhere new! That is what works for me! #itsnotaboutthebike

IA - Member
If you want an exciting bike, you need one that's bad at something. You want to make performance compromises.

E.g. a spanky xc weapon, breathtakingly fast on climbs, cruising down flowy singletrack like a missile...but then hit a rocky descent and you have to bring your A game or end up on your face.

Or a slack enduro gnarpoon, long, low, awkward at slow speed, but get it up to speed and it goes like the clappers, and you can get yourself into all sorts of trouble and somehow find a way out.

That's my two MTBs anyhow...

This is kind of what I'm getting at. Modern bikes can be such proficient and accomplished performers that the riding you do is made bland and boring.

I therefore suggest a Surly Krampus for that rigid alive feeling you only get from hanging on petrified while bumbling over a few roots 🙂

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26"

After your clown wheels it will feel like you're flying around on a BMX, what could be more fun than that? 🙂

I have no advice for you but if you sell anything XL and 29er please inbox me 🙂

Thanks

Fatbike +1. 🙂

And get a retrobike. Or two. Or more... 😳

Krampus

I also found the Fatbike a bit meh. Half fat however I loved. Maybe semi skimmed fat with a normal rear and knard front!
You could convert a HT to a rigid knard front easily and fairly cost effectively for a fork and wheel?

I get the different bike thing. Sometimes that is a large part of the experience. It is for me. But it does get expensive.

Have you tried going somewhere like Antur Stiniog on something inappropriate, that can make life very exciting.

When I rode TansProvence trails on my jones, that was rather exciting and was totally inspirational as to places to go and ride and what was possible, the first 1500m loooooong endless descent, wow. After that I went to Finale Ligure...wow, and Sestri Levantie...you get the picture.
Since I follow you on twitter gram you ride a lot more than I'm able so I'm quite jealous really...

I have no advice for you but if you sell anything XL and 29er please inbox me

29er yes, but 19" lrg

26"

After your clown wheels it will feel like you're flying around on a BMX, what could be more fun than that?

not into retro 😉

I can sympathise with you on this totally as I was like this most of last summer, but a big off and an arm broken in two places and 4/5 months off the bike worked wonders for me! Maybe not the broken arm but definitely the time off the bike as it's made me appreciate the time I do get on them but I've also made a point of trying to go away from home and ride different trails at least once a month to stop things getting boring oh and I'm trying to avoid trail centres as I tend to find them a bit meh and I think this was a big factor in my boredom.

What I also did was sell my HT and FS I had at the time and replaced it with a new FS that I ride everything on and built it up myself, feels so much more satisfying to go and ride it knowing I built it up on my own

Breaking a limb might be a tad too extreme!

Well yes breaking a limb is at the extreme end of the spectrum 😆

As others have said surely it's more about where you ride? I've had the same single MTB for about 4 years now and it's never boring. But then my regular XC rides used to be in the Lakes and are now in Calderdale. 🙂