long distance offroad day rides, 40 miles upwards.
what is the ideal bike.
light short travel susser
light h/tale
29r

ideas please.

bike for kielder possibly?

It depends 😉

Pretty much every kind of bike imaginable at Kielder100 last year.

two wheels would be good…

That would have been easy…Anthem X…up until the point where you said 29er. 😕

not for kielder………….keilder is yonks away.
a whole summer of riding before kielder………..
why does everyone keep mentioning kielder…….. 😉

Not popular, but I've got a Kona King – 100mm travel, scandium frame, lightish (27ishlb) and seems hard as nails. Paid £1350 new – bargain. Have upgraded forks to talas 100-140, gears to X9/X0, Hope mono minis, Deus cranks etc. Have race wheels (pro2/355) and general riding wheels with bigger tyres.
Steel hardtail is great too, but for a long day, I use the Kona.

i have a hardtail for looooooooooooong summer rides (and kielder).

Something light and quick would be my best bet altho say a lightly built up 29er sultan would be ideal

anthem X for long rides, may want to look at the Giant XTC 1 29er, rides very well… 😀

Oooh maybe a Nicolai Helius CC 😉

spark !

I've not ridden this for more than 103 miles off-road in one go, but it works for me.

A prototype, rigid, steel, 29er, SS will work better though 😉

FS everytime, unless it's some softy ride

Light short travel FS. Liking my Top Fuel thus far.

Fisher Superfly?

Salsa Dos Niner.

You know it makes sense.

thought about a hei hei 29r or a sultan to be honest.
both get good ratings for the clyde on mtbr.
mike, your bike is the kind of bike i rode when i was 12 delivering the papers…….. 😉

I've never ridden one but I reckon a 29er would be good, maybe short-travel full sus 29er?

Otherwise lightweight full sus, but I've been fine with my Soul

*ahem*

seems to do the trick 😀

twinklydave…….
mate, i'm a grandad, i need a bit of comfort nowadays……. 😉

Steel 2010 Kona unit 29er geared full rigid !
Just keeps on going 😉

mate, i'm a grandad, i need a bit of comfort nowadays…….

you'd be amazed just how comfy that is – laidback seat angle, Ti frame, seatpost and saddle rails = cushy

Going the Sultan route myself but still dream of a Rockstar 29er

Salsa dos niner

it's got big wheels and one inch of soft-tail pivotless rear end travel. They even have gears.

Great distance bike. The travel is almost subliminal. It's there but not noticable, but you know it's there. The ride is thunder: damned fast. But also real easy on the body without The handling ever feeling remote or vague.

A truely great bike. To be dicontinued soon. Get one while you can. We have a large demo dos niner.

is the shock on the dos niner a air can type shock??

Ti frame, seatpost

until they seize! (lots of copper slip ?)

the new FS supercaliber should fit the bill, (get it in large easier to sell on later 😉 )

charlie the bikemonger – Member
Salsa dos niner

A truely great bike. To be dicontinued soon.

😯

Discontinued. Not dicontoniued. But the salsa man said it won't be around for long.

Yeah it's a tiny air shock. Pump up one chamber to anything from zero to about fifty psi and it's sorted. Yes: some really light folk run zero psi.

I am planning some long days out on our demo dos.

We can do a very special price on the older red/yellow frame.

Any of the bikes used on the trans-provence….

I like this:

Light, comfortable and very capable of long distances over non-technical terrain.

charlie, is there a weight limit on the shock???
how can 50psi stop it bottoming??? when a 300lbs man is riding it.

That's some good BS there Charlie

Turner Flux is what you really want. (or anyother 100mm full susser weighing up to 26-27 lbs of which there are many – take your pick)

I am not aware of ant weight limits on the dos. I am almost sixteen stone and run 45 psi. I think the max is something like 80. Gotta remember that some if the sus comes from the flat leaf spring stays so maybe that is why it's run at low pressure?

Cynic-al. Good BS ? It's a difficult ride to describe as it not like most sussers. It's not BS it's just creative writing. Try one and then try conveying it's ride without sounding like some rubbish tv ad for perfume. 😉

Wow you can run at atmospheric pressure? Must be one tiny air chamber

The Dosniner is a really fugly bike

genius limited? light and the scott twinloc thingy 🙂

Charlie, at least you didn't resort to making up some pseudo science names "pro-NV age defying W"*K" for that extra floaty ride feel!

Moots YBB has been on my "must buy" list for a while

SC Tallboy?