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love a thread full of regurgitated magazine crap, if you had ever ridden with these mtb journalists you would know that they generally cant ride for shit.
and wouldn't know what to write if there wasn't a press release to re-word.
enlighten us b45her...tell us what we should be talking about.
Well there's a balanced and equally damning dissection of the bike magazine industry, thanks b45her. Look forward to seeing you fly the flag at red bull rampage or something this year then!?
Lawman - if you see this I'd be keen to know how much weight benefit you saw from changing the wheels out? Not that I will for a while but would be good to know if that's a beneficial upgrade for the future.
I saved 300g with the new wheels and it's instantly noticable on the trail, bike feels quicker to get up to speed and more agile. It's still a smidge over 30lb (though admittedly covered in Llandegla grime!) ao it's not superlight, but then it does have nearly 900g of front tyre and an alloy crankset. I also added weight with a Chromag ranger stem, though the matching Chromag Cutlass Carbon bar bought most of that back, but still only saved 20g overall. I think with some Raceface Next SL cranks and lighter tyres you could get it under 29lbs. I will likely get the cranks when my cycle to work voucher comes up for renewal as I had a set on my old Mondraker Foxy and really rated them, stupid press fit BB aside. Tyre's I'm not so sure on, I keep looking at the Maxxis Forekaster in work as they're meant to be under 700g so would save a 2-300g off the stock tyres, but I wonder if it would feel as planted. I would experiment as I used to do but tyres are so ****ing expensive nowadays!
Very interesting, thanks Lawman. Swapping the tyres out would be an easy fix. Not completely sold on the stock ones either but then what does grip on wet roots!? Went for a trail park ride today and swapped bikes with my mate again and while his is ridiculously light and mega plush, the Whyte just feels so planted and yet easy to chuck about and I won't go on about it's superb climbing abilities again. It really is a fantastic bike and definitely the right choice for me.
I've ridden the t130 carbon very briefly (not off road) and I was blown away by how light and nimble it felt. It virtually jumped out of my hands when I pressed on the pedals. Coming from a 33lbs g160 I understand that everything is relative but if it rides like an ally t130 (ie very well) with that nimbleness then it has to be one hell of a bike