[Closed] lets see your long travel hardtails with extra grrrrrr

BadlyWiredDog - Member

I'm sure it would be fine despite your evident doubts. I come at things from a slightly different angle than you. What matter is not outright speed per se, but the feeling of speed and on that basis, I suspect my bike would be significantly faster than many full sussers. I'm not saying it would win, I'm not that naive, but perceptively I think it would be right up there. You could always borrow it if you feel under-biked?

So it wouldn't [i]actually[/i] be faster, but would [i]feel[/i] faster?

Is there a separate podium for that?

So it wouldn't actually be faster, but would feel faster?

Is there a separate podium for that?

There should be. I think I meant 'perceptually' btw. Or something like that. My point is that people on full sussers might think they were faster than me on my rigid, but in my reality, not.

I've never heard someone get so confused about the difference between perception and reality - in future I shall MTB down the motorway to visit friends and relatives because it feels a lot faster along singletrack than my car does on a country road...

I don't know why I bother.

some lovely looking bikes, some horrors too.

main thing that jumps out at me is oversized headtubes making skinny stanch'd forks look weird.

Here's mine

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el_diablo is that your house?

Very grand 🙂

eyerideit,

don't be daft, that's just my garden shed!