nice vid tazz.
it just makes me want to get out and [s]ride[/s] drink beer and coffee every time I watch that,
Jeez, that was one dull slow video.
yeh but you're fat and wear body armor and you hate 29ers and spend the whole time popping up on threads to slag them off, so if you watched a film with something you know you'll hate why did you just waste 4 minutes of your life? 😆
Yeah but Taz, we could all probably ride that trail that slowly on a halfords christmas cracker special.
swede yep no doubt and to me if I want to mince that slowly in the UK I don't need a 30lb boingy skill compensator to up my radcoreness to roll around a trail centre, so a 29er with stiff frontage is perfect 😀
just goes to show the perfect uk trail bike is the one you like to ride for the stuff you enjoy doing
just goes to show the perfect uk trail bike is the one you like to ride for the stuff you enjoy doing
Thread closed. X
Good lord, what a boring rider. He sums up nicely everything dislikeable about 29ers- it's all about the image, not how you ride. Sit around drinking arsey coffee, drink beer on a ride...
A slow rider, making a meal of easy trails on the wrong tool for the job (a lot of those hops simply wouldn't have been necessary on a real bike), and some of those smoothest trails in the vid he rides slower than he was climbing!
see you on sunday sweetie
oh spokes, do go and be a petulant child else where, haven't you got a thread about the nasty government ganging up on you somewhere to sulk on? 😉
love transition bikes.It's good seeing them grow and making a wider range of bikes.
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I would but they appear to be full of you and your mates posing with your inappropriate nichetanks.
not into niche. function over form for me. Probably why I like Nicolai too. I just think it's nice to see rider owned companies doing well without having to enlist a sponsored rider for input like some big orgs do to enable the design to work.Although I am very grateful to Brian Lopes for my 'large company made' bike.So it's all good really. Suppose I just like the small guys doing well.
Looks like nukeproof mega?
😆posing with your inappropriate nichetanks.
yeh but you're fat and wear body armor and you hate 29ers and spend the whole time popping up on threads to slag them off, so if you watched a film with something you know you'll hate why did you just waste 4 minutes of your life?
Untwist your panties.
Untwist your panties.
I go commando 😉
Sounds about right for you weirdos.
seeing as you lot don't appreciate a nice big stiff frontage, how about something like a blur LT or heckler if you want a bouncy bottom or a 456 ti or a nice sinister ridge or evil sov or dialled alpine hartail. All lovely bikes and great for proper mountains and big days out.
There we are, something we agree on. Dialled Alpines are ace, I love mine.
I think this is ideal....
I love alpines I think they're great, wee bit heavy/overbuilt for me but I'm an xcjeyboymincer. Do fancy an alpine or a sinister as a play bike though 😀
pennyfarthings go off road as well 😆
"SS is overkill"
Are you sure you mean that?
Good point. I meant SS is perhaps making it too simple, at the expense of all-round practicality. I'm sure there are many who might disagree, but I couldn't manage to get up some of the hills in the UK without more gears!
To be fair, most uk trail centres offer a ride out that doesn't require a 5K full susser. You can ride most trails centres on any bike. The limiting factors are the speed you want to ride at and the line you want to take. If you want to wobble around half pissed and full of coffee and cake then maybe a 29er is your perfect trail bike. If you want to blat down the downy bits as fast as you can, challenging your capabilities and nerve and that's what you drive the distance for, then the maybe the expensive bouncer is for you. Horses for courses. Personally I like to do both.
Evil Sov for the win 8)
personally I like to do both.
+ 1 million
does make for less trolling to admit it though 😀
Penny farthing guy, out side pedal down 😉
Genius, total genius
Nice one tazzymtb 😀
ahh bike for trail centres, erm think a hardtail is sufice.
Tazzy wtf is going on with all those gay hops? No need on 99% of em - just turn normally??
ralph-don't ask me I wasn't riding the bloomin bike! it was just posted as a lighthearted you don't need a 6" dual boinger to ride in the uk. I'm sure if i spent more than 30 seconds looking for a clip to illustrate it I may have found something more to the masses liking. Personally i rather liked it, not because it was niche or any of that bunkum, purely because it showed a person enjoying their riding on the bike they like in some lovely mountains.
Same as the lovely spokescycles big mountain day out photos on another thread also make me appreciate what a tip top thing mountain biking is.
god you lot are a bunch of miserable (sweary sweary swear swear swear) at times who just don't seem to appreciate how much fun bikes are, even if they don't fit into your narrow little perceptions of what mountain biking is.
Looks remarkably like a Titus Motolite just without the horst link rear end. Could be quite a nice fun ride.
The OPs original video - looks pretty buff to me - nothing to scare a fully rigid bike.
The transition looks Ok -if skill compensation's your thing 😉
When you say trail bike to me, I visualise a bike that will take me to the back of beyond, thus a SS rigid hardtail.
For a trail park i'd want one of those pogo stick things with lots of boing.
Now, where have we seen that design before...??? 🙂
[url= http://www.mtbr.com/cat/bikes/xc-suspensio/rocky-mountain/slayer-70/PRD_364919_1526crx.aspx ]I bought the future[/url] 🙄 🙄
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The "pretentious coffee ****" video was so boring! Fair play for riding all of that fully rigid though.
For me the perfect uk bike is a long travel hardtail with 2x9.
Yeah, that alps vid was rather boring. Could prob quite happily do all that stuff on a bmx but doesn't mean its the ideal UK trail bike. The thing thatlet that rider down was his lack of speed and the fact you couldn't help but think that a 130mm fork would of helped him out sooo much
I thought the video was very pleasing on the eye, who really gives a hoot if he was riding slowly, drinking coffee and wrecking his spokes undoing a beer - if he'd been on a Cove Handjob he could've just used the built in bottle opener - but hey he was riding and where's the bad in that.
As for the perfect UK trail bike, it all depends on where and what you're trails are 8)
hear hear stevebb7, pleasing to the eye thats all.
and same for tazzys last remark,
why a full bouncy for trail parks? maybe here n there,for me i prefer a nice hardtail for them places
steve-b77 - The remark wasn't solely against the rider but more the right tool for the job. Why the OP of the vid put it up was simply because if this guy could ride that stuff on that bike then thats all you need for stuff in the UK when quite simply this isn't the case. I was simply sayin i could of done that on a bmx but that doesn;t mean a bmx is the only trail bike you need.
Put it simply, i could drive a fiat 500 round silverstone but for the right job would you take that or an atom/caterham etc ( i mean they both do the same job right? )
simply because if this guy could ride that stuff on that bike then thats all you need for stuff in the UK when quite simply this isn't the case.
it was done with a massive dose of tongue in cheek but I guess most of you "serious" riders tend to have a sense of humour deficit when it comes to people gently taking the piss. 🙄
to be fair the original video to showcase the awesome 130mm trail bike was flatter than a kippers genitalia hence the "you don't need a boinger for that" stance.
I'll leave you chaps to it
the devinci hectic is bloomin good bike for big mountains as well
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29er rigid single speed. If it's good enough for the alps it's more than sufficient for the poxy UK.
it was done with a massive dose of tongue in cheek but I guess most of you "serious" riders tend to have a sense of humour deficit when it comes to people gently taking the piss.
Sorry Tazzy, i obviously dont understand your sense of humour. All you had to do was put a 🙄 after the original sentence to denote your'massive dose of tongue in cheek'.
And yes i can be a serious rider when i'm racing but most of the time i have a great sense of humour, so since you have never met me or know me i feel that your comment was unjust and not neccessary
did I specifically single you out and say you had no sense of humour? Did i buggery but if you want to take it as a personal slight or a stain on your honour feel free.
I give up on internet forums 😥
there seems to be a combative group of folks who will go out of their way to be grumpy sods even if it means watching a film clip they know they won't like just so they can then piss and moan about it.
Ignore 'em tazzy. Personally I'm not keen on either 29ers or singlespeeds at the mo' but (aside from the purpose of this post 😉 ) feel no need to let anyone else know. Loved the video clip though - cool trails, nice music and a chap obviously enjoying his riding . . . what's not to like 8) . More of the same please . . . oh, and let's see some more trail bikes.
