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Riding uphill
685mm is wide enough
9 Speed
I'm staying with mechanical gears, I can't be arsed with having to keep an eye on whether the battery in my bike is charged so that it will move the gears - whole point about a bike is that you can get it out of the shed and go and ride it save for a quick tyre pump and chain lube
The things I'm holding onto are the things where I don't think the claimed advances, are actually advances- they're just differences. When things are better, I'll switch.
and release all the air upto 6 times a ride.and don't need a compressor
and 99.9% of the time, [b]hold in all the air[/b] and seat the tyre bead first time
personal experience (@45psi), YMMV etc
Multiple bikes would be my keeper I guess - arguably a stupid idea. Droppers, 1x11, carbon super bikes, leccy shifting etc all sound good but costs too much. If I went to one bike I could probably afford bling stuff, but....I like having a singlespeed, a lakes bike (slacker, heavier and more travel) a nice "normal" bike and a parts bin bike that gets all my old parts to eke every bit of moneys worth out of them and gets ridden through winter/rain/mud without worrying about ruining my bestest gear.
Only owning 1 bike at a time would mean switching to the new "standards" every 3 or 4 years would be less of a PITA too.
Hmm. Well by the end of the week I will have the following.
FS Bike
Carbon
160mm forks(20mm axle)
Wide bars
1x10
26" wheels
Tubes
Short stem
Dropper
HT bike
Steel
140mm forks (20mm axle)
wide bars
2x9
26" wheels
Tubes
Short stem
Rigid post
So on the FS its tubes and arguably a 20mm axle on a trail bike. And on the HT its tubes, 20mm axle, 2x9, rigid post and steel frame.
I refuse to call different wheel sizes an advancement.
Someone pitched in with 15mm vs 20mm, I now have stiffer 15mm forks than a lot of 20mm used to be, it's a con in some ways spec a 20mm axle to cover up the fact you cant make stiff light forks 🙂
Circular wheels. Not sure square ones will be as effective.
Seriously though, I'm currently riding a rigid single speed 29er. So there isn't much I have.
However, it does have big wheels, short stem and wide bars.
Next build though will be 140mm, 650b hard tail running 1*10, have a dropper, tubeless, and all the other commodities I miss from my Meta before it was stolen. Cannot. Wait.
and release all the air upto 6 times a ride.
or release all the air a whopping 3 times in 7000 km 😉
I'm hanging on to 26 inch wheels, 20mm axles and cables.
I've embraced wider bars, dropper posts, slack head angles, 1x10, tubeless because it all makes by bike better.
I have no interest in electric shifter or suspension control. Water and electrics don't seem like a good idea to me in the long run.
I've mostly avoided carbon to date too, but that's because I'm tight.
DMR V8's, bought some of these thinner pedals for one bike, can't say I notice much of an improvement tbh, they can stay on the other bikes.
26" and inner tubes.