[Closed] mtb'ing disease.....

Sorry to hear that....but unfortunatly there is NO cure 😆

Hora, is that you?

I would like to say yes, as I have two bike I love to ride and see no reason to replace. Though that doesn't stop me looking at other bikes & wondering what they'd be like to own...

You lot make me laff. I only own ONE bike.

Currently want a gravity dropper. My life would have [i] sooooooooo[/i] much more meaning.

cant afford one though. Spent the last 3 years buying stuff

Your only answer is to ride more.
You'll obsess less over having the latest wotzit or lightest widget and realise what a fool you've been for wasting all that money.
You'll actually become a good rider and therefore won't feel such a need to compensate for your inadequacies with the latest bit of bling.

RIDE YOUR BIKE??!

that's crazy talk

I have wife's HT and my own FS. Ride HT more often and enjoy thinking about what whould it be like on FS and vice versa. But yeah, the more you ride the better. It will cure your head of all BS read from magazines. Marketeers did an awesome job though.

The the thing southern yeti, i ride my bikes loads and i am a good rider :P. actually that is not totally true at the moment, i ride my hardtail loads.

I'm of the belief that it is the rider not the bike . my mate who is the best rider i know (used to race national dh), rides probably the cheapest bikes out of all the people i ride with and will never by anything new unless he has too.

I used to work in a shop where the guys would talk about and own really expensive bikes, but never ride! I would always be going out and couldn't understand why they didn't want to ride their expensive toys.

both my mate and the guys in the shop obsess about bikes, but one is an amazing rider and the others barely ride.

i dont for a second think that a new shiny bit will make me go faster as i know it wont, but still lust after different bits and pieces.

part of it is gettting back into riding after 15 years and now actually being able to afford the things i couldn't have as a kid, but i think that mtb'ing disease exists no matter how much you ride or how good you are 🙂

Bought a Cotic Soul and now ride nothing else off road. So get yourself one with durable but pretty light build, a height adjustable fork and a spare lightweight wheels shod with racy tyre and it will be ideal for anything. Mine weighs 25lbs with a set of trail tyres on and weighs 23lbs with lighter wheels and tyres.

Currently trying to fight off weightweenie-ism, got a carbon frame a few months back, so far I've managed to atleast only replace broken/worn parts with lightweight stuff but yesterday I was pricing up (slightly) lighter rotors, aluminium backed brake pads and Ti bolts (!). Worrying.

The search for the Holy Grail *is* the hobby for some people.

I know a few folk who spend more time bike shopping and bike building than they ever do riding.

A few seem to think that cycling is an activity that can be "completed", like a computer game. They keep buying and buying until they've run out of stuff to buy, mistakenly thinking that it serves any purpose beyond emptying their wallet.

Unlike with, say cars, cyclists with a half decent income can quite quickly and easily reach the summit of spec and setup, and the only thing they can then do is wait for the next model year when the manufacturers give them somewhere else to upgrade to.

It's funny. Those guys I know on 7 year old mid-range hardtails, or second-hand slightly shonky suspension bikes are the guys who never seem to have a bad word to say about their bikes, while the Chris King, Thomson set are forever having issues.

The quest for the ultimate product is a fallacy. If the manufacturers ever did create the ultimate component they'd put themselves out of business. Keeping us all wanting is the way our world is run.

But it keeps the bikes shops open for those of us who need them to be there for when we wear out stuff and finally have to replace it, and it keeps the second hand market buoyant, so I'm not complaining.

The best thing to do, if you're really trapped by it, is to spend a month researching the hell out of everything, test riding everything, finding the weights and specs, comparing and offseting against each other on spread sheets and generally find out what is the very best thing you could possibly buy. Then don't bother working your way up to it - just buy the very best you possibly can, there and then.

The disappointment that comes from the ultimate purchase should be enough to let you know that you can't buy cycling contentment.

@ jack the dog

I definitely fit into the mid range hardtail, shonky second hand full susser group, but working in a bike shop for a bit made me a bit spoilt for choice!

The thing is I ride everything, xc, downhill, dirt jumps, bmx tracks and occasionally have been known to go out on the road on my hack bike.

I could never afford to buy all the latest shiny kit or would want to as i am too tight, but I am a bargain hunting junkie.

. So far all my bikes are a bit limited in one way or another apart from my 24 inch dj bike which is perfect for bmx tracks, street stuff and dj

thinking about it what im after is a selection of bikes/frames that are totally suited to what i ride and there is no need for me to look at anything else, except when things break or wear out.

anyone actually found the holy grail and not want to change or add bikes every few months?

Me, I don't want to change bikes. I buy multiple bikes, but they continue to perform so I keep them. If I hadn't had the issue forced by some local scumbags 4 years ago I'd still be on a 2001 Pace and a 2003 Gary Fisher.

Work on yourself, not your bike collection.

I should add that it took me a while to learn this, back when I was younger.