[Closed] one bike to rule them all?

i want to go up and down and drops and jumps. you know where i coach!

i think new forks is maybe the only way.

Of course I know where you coach! 😉

I like the hummer - I'd say get a hardtail for that to keep your hummer for "best" unless you think it'll take the beating - if so new forks.

Personally I think a FS might be too much unless you are thinking for the likes of more burly rides and coaching. But then I think 90% of UK riding doesn't need a FS so I'm slightly biased.

bushwacked, you know i love ht!
i think the hummer frame will last longer still. i know the z1 freeride forks are getting tired though.

once again, bushwacked talks sense 🙂

high5 !

*cough* indy fab *cough*

Foes of course, fxr.

Jedi - high5!

Now I know the Cotic Hemlock is designed to be a FS that handles for people who like HTs - worth looking at?

I'd get some new forks first and see how the Hummer hums! if you want to - you are welcome to try my Soul out on the 20th

You get a genuine LOL for that, my Hemlock is lighter than that with 6 inches of travel, 2.35 tyres and a gravity dropper

No doubt I'd be fine with one fairly bling short-travel bike - something like one of the carbon Epics perhaps - instead of the 5 bikes I currently have. I get a fair amount of enjoyment from building/re-building the bikes though, so I prefer to have several cheap to moderately spec'd bikes instead of one super-tarty one.

Do you really trust your hardware

You own a commencal, non? 🙂

si_progressivebikes - Member

Do you really trust your hardware

You own a commencal, non?

and it's a home run!!! 🙂

yes what is wrong with commencal? Almost all my riding mates are on commencals some for about 5 years now, and unless oliv' who broke a meta 6 (but lets face it oliv has broke everything, even a race face turbine crank) I have yet to see one failing.
EDIT What is wrong with commencals? Jedi you're on a cove no 😉

same cove for 7years!

"You mean with or without the chain stay breaking;)?"
They already put that down to some medium frames missing a spacer in between the frame and a bearing, meaning everything was skewed and under way more load than they should have been didn't they?

I've seen/read about many more commencal meta 55s breaking than hemlocks anyhow

"Corsair Marque"
Aren't they stupidly heavy (way more so than commmencals), like 10lbs for the frame?

Do you need anything that strong for teaching? You won't be pushing your personal limits?

thats strong?? as what?

Juan wrote,

"You mean with or without the chain stay breaking;)?
Oh and I really mean down mountains, like for an enduro or a megavalanche... Do you really trust your hardware? "

As's been said the breaking chainstays was due to an assembly error not a structural issue, easily rectified, and mine is a later model which was never affected by that in any case. Might possibly fit the stiffer 2010 chainstays, probably not, it doesn't need it. No need for me to poke fun at cracking Meta 5s, other people have done it for me, I did consider buying a Meta though since there's so many cheap warranty replacement frames on Ebay 😉

And yes, absolutely, I trust it. I'll be taking it with me next time I'm at Innerleithen and Fort William, and to the Pyrenees later in the year.

Hemlock C'stay failure here, washers were included.

(and i'm a slow, skinny coward. I shouldn't be able to break [i]anything[/i])

mrmichaelwright and what may be wrong with knollys prey tell?

hhmmm knollys.... knowle!!! 🙂

?? lost me??
That's not too hard mind.

I was talking to Noel about you the other night Tony... He was very complimentary!

j-claw. was he now 🙂

His new [url= http://knollybikes.com/bikes/delirium ]Delirium[/url] was very nice too. You might need a 2nd mortgage though 😉

🙂

Ah Noel, geddit now!
Jedi and j-claw; you know him?
Surely there's a special discount for friends?

Where is the mention of the SC Nomad?! Mine does the annual Morzine trip and all day wales trail centres with the occassional uplift thrown in.

All I do is swap wheelset & tyres.

Oh and I really mean down mountains, like for an enduro or a megavalanche... Do you really trust your hardware?

Well it hasn't let me down in the last three years - although I only added the GD last year.

Oh and I should add that I do mean going down mountains - I used it in the Mega last year. I am very hard on kit and I weigh over 15-stone in my kit. Actually with my alpine pack on, more like over 16-stone.

+1 Nomad.

Jedi the Nomad needs a serious looking at.I cant think of a more rounded bike capable of a bit of punnishment.

Have a go on Mark Ts nice little red bike.

Series 1 Intense SlopeStyle?

+ 2 Nomad

I've seen/read about many more commencal meta 55s breaking than hemlocks anyhow

Didn't we prove that the percentage of broken fram is more important for cotic than for commencal? Plus commencal crack were due to people not having enough seat post in apparently 😉

I've had 2 commies goat the shock mount, nothing to do with too much seatpost exposed. You get what you pay for.

JEDI 7 year yes maybe but they do have a tendency to fold/break don't they 😉

what the 2003 hummers??? are you mental?

jedi dunno about 2003 hummers 😉 but HJ have a tendency to crumple or crack. Even I with my 60 kg and my generaly normal riding managed to crack mine...

hmmm, fishing Juan? Hummers and HJ are not the same frame.

Orange

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'nuff said

For every yard of severe rocky downhill I go down, I probably cover 99 yards of more normal trail - therefore I run a bike that covers the 99% with ease and manages the 1%.

456Ti, built light, for me.

Raleigh Activator!

Juan, if you managed to snap a decent condition Handjob I would say your Meta's days are numbered. 😆

The new Canfield The One is looking real nice

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sorry you all have it all wrong.

jedi does not want one bike to rule them all - what he does need is a light easy going yet strongish hardtail for coaching on day in and day out. This will then be combined with a proper burly susser which he can push his own personal limits on.

trying to find that bike that is light enough for everyday and strong enough to cope with a bad day is just plain folly.

especially when both the new bikes will be business assets.