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Marin Palisades Trail - my first mountain bike in 2006 after riding BMXs as a kid. Completely wrong advice by the girl in the shop. Too big for me and too XC orientated with really narrow rims that made the tyres go like balloons and roll around, the front one I turned into a pringle shape on the 1st ride.
Horribly stiff frame that felt like a gate, hayes sole brakes that constantly rubbed and a Manipoo fork. I was glad when it got stolen. Except for my lovely indestructible 321 rim which I had built onto the front after my first ride. Looking back there was no way that wheel should have buckled and the rear spokes were lose when I checked them after the ride.
Replaced with my lovely Merlin with nice handbuilt wheels, revelation forks and a frame that had just a bit of spring and was very chuckable.
Transition Bottlerocket, tried one at UKbike skills, hated it and the dude had a white saddle and kept being 'nice' and smiling at me a lot.
I think that man is always smiling at people. You did progress a lot riding it did you? Most probably you just looked good on it.
A folding recumbent called a Linear. I'm not very keen on the way you sit on a recumbent bike anyway and that one in particular was unbelievably flexy. Nasty ugly bendy thing with shit brakes.
(Despite that I would still like to try a Speedy though).
Anything that doesn't quite fit +1
The sx trail isn't going to descend as well as a DH bike because it isn't one! My 08 with totems was great fun for the jumpy freeride trails it was designed for, but could still handle DH. It was designed for Bearclaw not Sam Hill. I once did an XC ride on my sx and it wasn't fun, but I managed, the same trail on my Demo just would not have happened. Pure DH bikes are only good for one thing...
I'm on my first single pivot after 8 years of four bar and loving it!
If I can put my nerd hat on for a moment, the 2005 SX trail is identical to the 2005 Enduro except for the coil 5th Element shock. The geometry is exactly the same. Later SX Trail frames were slacker in the head tube.
At the end of the day, if you don't get on with it then you don't get on with it period. Otherwise we'd all be riding Orange Fives wouldn't we?
popstar - Member
I think that man is always smiling at people. You did progress a lot riding it did you? Most probably you just looked good on it.
I look better on it than he does.;-)
And yeah I ride good now
Back in 06 the enduro was the fastest bike down the Dirt 104 track, only beaten by the intense M3!
obviously it wasn't 🙄
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Back in 06 the enduro was the [b]second[/b] fastest bike down the Dirt 104 track, only beaten by the intense M3!
FIFY
Smarty pants! 🙂
ETSX. Awful in so many ways.
Yeti 575; rented one at Moab couldn't get on with it, perservered and then fell off. Great bike I'm sure but not for me
Kona Stinky I rented in Whistler, bloody heavy slack alice thing..