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Just one MTB here, a Genesis Abyss.
i have 2 a cotic soul and a sir niner. I am going to sell the soul as since i got the niner i never use it anymore. Its a shame cause its a great bike but pointless if its unused 🙁
Having only got back into mountain biking recently, after quite a few years away, I have just the one bike. (That is unless you count the 15-year-old Marin that's sitting in storage in two cardboard boxes waiting until I have a spare month or two to renovate it.)
It's a 100mm travel hardtail, for the record.
ohhh get her
well I took it to spain last week weighing more than some WC DH bikes! Even with skinny wheels and tyres and 1" less travel and a good 50mm off the fork height it still felt uninspiring in comparison on the chilterns, I know a skinny bike wont make the trails great but at least it'll make them quicker.
Sounds like someone's a little jealous... 😀
Where abouts do you usually ride?
Ohh and it'll never be 1 bike, the rest will probably condense to a 4x bike (replacing the 456 and BMX) and I might condense the roadie, tourer and fixie down to just the roadie.
Intense tracer for me and that's all I seem to need at the minute
Like RealMan I just have Chameleon. It's all you need.
Chilterns for long XC rides and Swinley for when I fancy some corners and the odd bit of technical fun.
TBH the stuff in Spain kicks anything in the UK into touch, now I just have to ride arround knowing that it'll be a year before I get to go back 🙁
Njee why you ditching the mtb's?
realman:
[looks over shoulder to make sure no-one's listening] mostly I pootle the coastpath [/looks over shoulder to make sure no-one's listening]
but also pretty regular at Woodbury Common and East Dartmoor..
Me. just the one.
only one for me ht genesis core20,never had a fs so i dont know what im missing!!!
Ok, give us a shout if you do see me (cause I like the idea of you just randomly shouting at cyclist with red tops on).
Its annoying, been here for 2 weeks now (is that all?), and still haven't made it to exmoor or dartmoor. Can't wait though, got a little taste of the moors at woodbury, aching for more. It's also weird not living right next to the sea any more, kind of missing it - might have to get out and give the coastpath a go if its worth it?
Commencal Meta 5.5 XT for trails when a bit of bounce is needed.
Cove Stiffee for everything else, including biking to work..
I like the coast path a lot.. it's cheeky (very in places) but there's some stunning singletrack to be found if you persevere.. walkers are [i]usually[/i] very graceful and friendly though and often just bemused that anyone would be daft enough to cycle it..
(note: walkers are definitely not so welcoming along busier parts of the jurassic coast section as it's a designated world heritage site now)
I look forward to yelling [b]REALMAAAAN[/b] at random red jerseyed cyclists.. I'll report back with any amusing misunderstandings..
I have one bike, an Orange 5. I keep threatening to get a hardtail for winter but the 5 is so much fun, I don't need another bike.
Only one mountain bike, a slot drop inbred built lightish with gears.
My other bikes (Ti roadbike, race bmx) do completely different jobs, so no cross-over.
I look forward to yelling REALMAAAAN at random red jerseyed cyclists.. I'll report back with any amusing misunderstandings..
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Just the one mtb for me now; a cotic soda. After faffing around with different bikes for different jobs I found one that will cope amusingly with 95% of the off road riding I'm ever likely to want to do. It also helps me stay married that my total bike count is only three. My only problem is that I love it so much I can't stop buying jewelery for it.
Just one for me but can borrow the wifes new MMMbob I have just built her if needed.
er so does this mean more than one bike and am on a slippery slope to multi bike ownership
Just one. Charge Duster 8.
Simples.
Just the one here as well....Orange evo 2
I wish I could. 😳
Probably the most sensible one to keep would be my Soul ... but I'm a woman. 🙄
Me, at least one that's rideable, it's even a Carrera, shock horror. I've also got a Mongoose Amplifier (Amp), Raleigh Burner, and a '97 Specialized Rockhopper, all in various states of disrepair.
Shame on me.
crazy fool, one mtb? You may aswell SS it, ghetto tubeless, wear sandles and chase the moles in your garden with a pitchfork reciting Haiku's. Hippy
Only got one mtb just now, my Hemlock... Mmmbop is getting replaced under warranty, Soul is in a box, carrera rigid thing has 2 knackered wheels.
Got a Sanderson Breath for XC, single track off road mincing. 100mm forks. Got a light weight 29er set up rigid front and skinny tyres sort of a CX bike with flat bars and disc brakes.
I would like one but its good for road riding the 29r and will be more use in the winter on the roads and can be run in the summer on most of the trails. Leave the 26er with wider proper off road tyres and a 1x9 speed gear setup for the winter and more proper off road style riding.
I reckon 2 bikes is the best combo of getting some use out of them and
being practical. having 5 bikes and what not is daft as you never will get your moneys worth out of all that gear.
I've done 5 years with a Cove Stiffee. Run it with downhill tubes and 2.5 tyres for downhill style stuff, and 2.3 tyres for cross country.
My concern is that I'm starting to smash myself up riding a hardtail, so going to go over to full suss some time.
spoon; so, you're suggesting buying a full-bouncer for the 'easy' stuff down south, and keeping your hardtail for the 'proper' stuff up north?
i can see nothing wrong with that logic.
well done, keep it up.
(i've got 2 [i]mountain[/i] bikes, a bluepig and a Dh bike FS thing, but i haven't ridden that in months...
i can see nothing wrong with that logic.well done, keep it up.
True, but up north (or abroad, or an uplift) I'd pick something interesting to ride that would leave me knackered in 15-20miles with at least half of that consisting of the ploding up/hammering down variety of riding. Where as down here its more bumpy bridleway climb followed by bumpy (but non technical) decent, which just hammers my backside and lower back.
Just a Morning Glory here. Its light, strong and perfectly adequate for all riding but I'd still have more bikes if they weren't so bloody expensive!
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only one for me
A 2004 sworks enduro, it has done everything i have ever asked of it and is bloody bombproof. Ride it all year round
will prob replace it next year with another enduro
Only one bike...?....(shudders)..... 😯
Our two year old only has one bike - an Islabike Rothan.
Me and wife have a couple each.
Just one here: a RM Blizzard. Down from four or five at one point, but the Blizzard is simply the most fun per mile. I'm sure that if I lived in the Alps or BC I'd prefer a FS but it's all I need at the moment.
will prob replace it next year with another enduro
I demo'd the previous enduro-sl, its a seriously uninspiring* bike unless your riding stuff that you'd normaly pick a DH bike for but don't have an uplift. The new stumpjumper (or even the 120mm bike chatever its called) would be closer to the original enduro.
*thats a lie, its a very inspiring bike, but you need to be hitting boulder fields at mach 3 to appreciate it, not 'rock gardens' in the UK trail center sense.
One Bike to rule them all... and I got it.
I only have one Brand of bike - does this count?
Just one bike - Yeti 575. Does everything fairly well from XC to red/black trail centre routes but that's about as far as my bravery allows me to take it. Took a long while to get the suspension set up correctly though, and still end up tweaking it quite a bit depending on where I'm riding.
.... though I've just bought a Blue pig frame to build up (see my first post just added this morning)...
just one bike now....singlespeed Kinesis decade which does me for all the riding i have time to do these days. Mainly commuting, skatepark and local woods, dont really get out to big trail centres these days but can still manage Cannock no probs on it. I might see my way to getting a BMX soon though just for the crack.
One Bike. Two sets of wheels. Two bars.
Cove Handjob with Pace RC31 & XT. Swap wheels to one inch road tyres for commuting and have some narrower bars for when commuting is the norm.
I've had it for four and a half years and only upgraded the stem and changed consumables. It does everthing I could ever want from a bike and I love it to bits.
Just one bike here also and Its from Halfords . 😛
GT Aggressor XCR It goes up and downhills which Is all I need It to do . I might treat myself for my 40th next year to something a bit better but for the time being Its ace.
Only this one here;
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But I also have a Bionicon Ironwood, a Specialized Langster and a Specialized Tarmac stashed at various locations in the UK. I could only bring one bike to the USA, and the SS is perfect for the trails here. So for the next year or maybe more it will be the do-it-all bike.
Just put a deposit down on a Trek Top Fuel, now all I have to do it hope it fits and decide on what I'm selling to fund it 🙂