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Top 3 with bullet points... I will kick off.
KS dropper seatpost - 3 years and 3 calbe cleans later still working great.
Casco Viper helmet - great lid that adds confidence especially when remote riding tech stuff, cooler than a full face too.
Wingnut backpack - low slung with accessible side pockets, looks odd but works great.
1)the front wheel
2)the back wheel
3)the chain
Handlebars
Wheels
Pedals
Haribo Tangfastics - yummy and enable a bit more pedal time
Hip Flasks - yummy and enable a bit more pedal time
Pubs - yummy and enable a bit more pedal time*
*well, you're out longer anyway
- Reverb, almost two years old, works fine.
- Saint brakes, two years old, work fine.
- CCDB, lives up to the hype.
Shimano SPDs
Maxxis Beavers
Gore Phantom II Jacket
*Mountains
*Bikes
*Beer
Front suspension
Rear suspension
Disc's
Everything else is fluff
*Mountains
*Bikes
*Beer
...would be an awesome t-shirt!
oh, alright then - mountains/uplifts/techytrails
Wheels
Chain
Hope Brakes
Put me down for one of those t-shirts!
www.binnerstshirts.com
Car's - otherwise I'd still be riding round the edges of fields not knowing there was anything more interesting to do.
Bikes - no standout components on my Pitch, Lyrics, reverb, XT brakes, Silentguide, XT 10 speed, hope hubs, Mavic rims, etc, it all works and works very well. None of it's better than anythign else anymore.
Mountains - because a 30 min decent is always better than a 30 second hill.
The only edit this needs is 'Eat Cake'
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29" wheels
lock on grips
disc brakes
1. Gillet
2. Disc brakes
3. Garmin GPS
1. Full suspension bikes
2. Shimano brakes
3. UK Bike Skills
Foakleys
Superstar pads
Rubber queens
Easton Havoc Carbon bars
Dropper post (joplin 4 here)
Spesh 2bliss purgatory control or Eskar control tyres
Interesting topic, well done. Here would be my three and in no typical order, first off I would choose
Dual brake/shifter set- fabulous invention!
Secondly I would chose my met parachute, hence my recent post, protection is of the upmost importance in ones collection.
And thirdly is a very close one between my elbow pads or my reflective ankle straps, that might sound quite bizarre to some of you but as your choosing your up and down seatposts! 😆 I'd rather be seen thank you very much!
Rupert.p
Camelback Mule - just the right size for almost any ride
Dropper seat posts - ain't got one yet but the concept is awsome
My Yeti 575 - Yet to fail to put a smile on my face or feel I need more from just looking at it to riding black DH runs.
Why have I got a troll at the side of my name?? 🙄
Squirt lube
Super Tacky Tyres
Bolt-thru Suspension Forks
[i]Why have I got a troll at the side of my name??[/i]
It's a sign of respect.
1) Hemoglobin
2) Adenosine Triphosphate
3) Deoxyribonucleic Acid
Top 3 on what criteria? Favourite, best quality, most essential or game changing?
Top 3 product developments that have genuinely changed my riding experience for the better:
Camelbak
Dropper post
Threadless headset (possibly tied with indexed gears)
Recently, it's reliable disc brakes, XC suspension forks that don't flex around like hell and Stans tubeless rims and goop.
GB
SPD's
Stan's No Tubes
XTR stuff
UST wheels/tyres.
Dropper posts.
Disk brakes.
Cheers mranger! 🙂
Bikes, beer and mates
Dropper post - reverb
Stans flows tubeless
Disc brakes - shimano xt785 with ice tech discs in particular
1. Reverb post - Will change how you ride forever
2. Tubeless tyres - Better in every way and no punctures
3. Modern hydro formed slack framed FS - DH performance, all day usability
+1 Jedi's three, if you have them you can make do without all this fancy technology
But other than that my 3 -
preglued patches
Proper Suspension that works, front and rear
Shadow + rear mech
In the time I've been riding
Index gearing
Suspension
Disk brakes
And the internet to answer any possible question you might have in regard to any aspect of mountain biking.*
* Answers may not always have any relevance at all to what you ask.
Shimano Disk brakes
Proper grippy thin flat pedals
Oakley prescription glasses
Stanton slackline frame
Nukeproof hubs
Dakine Apex (With camelbak tube mod)
1. Shimano Saint gearset.
2. Hans Dampf tyres
3. That £10 adapter that lets you adjust the IFC pressure on a monarch shock..... As I can't afford a CCDB!
casco viper
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hahahaa....
rely on your skills, not compressed neoprene, regardless of whether there is a bit of plastic surrounding your chin.
-my bike.
-shimano as a brand.
-rock shox as a brand.
Why have I got a troll at the side of my name??It's a sign of respect.
😆 damned near spat my coffee out, hohoho
Cheap 900+ lumen lights
Tubeless tyres
Suspension forks
hands
feet
balls
Dropper posts
Disk brakes
and whilst not a product, riding with the Sith Hound.
rupertpostlethwaite - TrollWhy have I got a troll at the side of my name??
ROFL here!
king headsets (one is on 3rd frame, other on 2nd - both regreased once)
29er wheels
conti race king (on rear - awesome)
Hydraulic Disc Brakes
Tubeless Tyre / Rims
CCDB
maps
disc brakes
mates with a sense of adventure
Anything From Hope
Dropper Posts (KS & Reverb)
Suspension
External BB's
SPD's
Modern suspension design.
1. Indexed shifting. Most of us probably would not be riding MTB if we had to feel the gear changes manually with a friction system. Indexed gears made gear changing gears so much easier, almost second nature.
2. MTB Specific (Compact) Cranks and cassette. Initially "Micro Drive" 22-32-44 with a 12-32 cassette. Again, a lot of us would not be riding trails if we had to use borrowed touring gears in the 24-34-46 and a 12-28 cassette as the widest sperad. The lower gears made MTB accessible to average recreational riders, and cut the number of hike-a-bikes substantially.
3. Suspension. A skill compensator maybe, but makes riding much less fatiguing and more enjoyable so easily adopted by average folks. Most average recreational riders would be put off of MTB if rigid was the only option.
4th would be MTB specific tires, but the OP only asked for 3.