The perfect UK trail bike?

It looks nice enough, though a linkage driven single pivot (without ABP or DOPE). The 1 year warranty puts me off most though

“SS is overkill”
Are you sure you mean that?

To not be overkill surely you’d need less gears?

To play devil’s advocate, do you need more than 100mm travel for the overwhelming majority of UK trail riding?

http://www.singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/2010-a-year-in-mountains

Yup! Looks perfect for my adventures, might be my first paycheque treat…

120mm full suss or a hardtail
that is all

Came to this thread to nominate my most recent build – my ‘full circle’ Tazer VP but I have to admit that Bandit looks spot-on.

Hmmmmm . . .

Nah, the Tazer wins. I’ve ridden it every day for the last 2 weeks and I love it!!!! 😛

29er rigid single speed. If it’s good enough for the alps it’s more than sufficient for the poxy UK.

nice vid tazz.

it just makes me want to get out and ride drink beer and coffee every time I watch that,

Jeez, that was one dull slow video.

yeh but you’re fat and wear body armor and you hate 29ers and spend the whole time popping up on threads to slag them off, so if you watched a film with something you know you’ll hate why did you just waste 4 minutes of your life? 😆

Yeah but Taz, we could all probably ride that trail that slowly on a halfords christmas cracker special.

swede yep no doubt and to me if I want to mince that slowly in the UK I don’t need a 30lb boingy skill compensator to up my radcoreness to roll around a trail centre, so a 29er with stiff frontage is perfect 😀

just goes to show the perfect uk trail bike is the one you like to ride for the stuff you enjoy doing

just goes to show the perfect uk trail bike is the one you like to ride for the stuff you enjoy doing

Thread closed. X

Good lord, what a boring rider. He sums up nicely everything dislikeable about 29ers- it’s all about the image, not how you ride. Sit around drinking arsey coffee, drink beer on a ride…

A slow rider, making a meal of easy trails on the wrong tool for the job (a lot of those hops simply wouldn’t have been necessary on a real bike), and some of those smoothest trails in the vid he rides slower than he was climbing!

see you on sunday sweetie

oh spokes, do go and be a petulant child else where, haven’t you got a thread about the nasty government ganging up on you somewhere to sulk on? 😉

love transition bikes.It’s good seeing them grow and making a wider range of bikes.

😐

I would but they appear to be full of you and your mates posing with your inappropriate nichetanks.

not into niche. function over form for me. Probably why I like Nicolai too. I just think it’s nice to see rider owned companies doing well without having to enlist a sponsored rider for input like some big orgs do to enable the design to work.Although I am very grateful to Brian Lopes for my ‘large company made’ bike.So it’s all good really. Suppose I just like the small guys doing well.

Looks like nukeproof mega?

posing with your inappropriate nichetanks.

😆

yeh but you’re fat and wear body armor and you hate 29ers and spend the whole time popping up on threads to slag them off, so if you watched a film with something you know you’ll hate why did you just waste 4 minutes of your life?

Untwist your panties.

Untwist your panties.

I go commando 😉

Sounds about right for you weirdos.

seeing as you lot don’t appreciate a nice big stiff frontage, how about something like a blur LT or heckler if you want a bouncy bottom or a 456 ti or a nice sinister ridge or evil sov or dialled alpine hartail. All lovely bikes and great for proper mountains and big days out.

There we are, something we agree on. Dialled Alpines are ace, I love mine.

I think this is ideal….

http://www.thenationalelfservice.com/mickys_gallery/images/Penny%20Farthing.jpg

I love alpines I think they’re great, wee bit heavy/overbuilt for me but I’m an xcjeyboymincer. Do fancy an alpine or a sinister as a play bike though 😀

pennyfarthings go off road as well 😆

“SS is overkill”
Are you sure you mean that?

Good point. I meant SS is perhaps making it too simple, at the expense of all-round practicality. I’m sure there are many who might disagree, but I couldn’t manage to get up some of the hills in the UK without more gears!

To be fair, most uk trail centres offer a ride out that doesn’t require a 5K full susser. You can ride most trails centres on any bike. The limiting factors are the speed you want to ride at and the line you want to take. If you want to wobble around half pissed and full of coffee and cake then maybe a 29er is your perfect trail bike. If you want to blat down the downy bits as fast as you can, challenging your capabilities and nerve and that’s what you drive the distance for, then the maybe the expensive bouncer is for you. Horses for courses. Personally I like to do both.

Evil Sov for the win 8)

personally I like to do both.

+ 1 million

does make for less trolling to admit it though 😀

Penny farthing guy, out side pedal down 😉

Genius, total genius

Nice one tazzymtb 😀

ahh bike for trail centres, erm think a hardtail is sufice.

Tazzy wtf is going on with all those gay hops? No need on 99% of em – just turn normally??

ralph-don’t ask me I wasn’t riding the bloomin bike! it was just posted as a lighthearted you don’t need a 6″ dual boinger to ride in the uk. I’m sure if i spent more than 30 seconds looking for a clip to illustrate it I may have found something more to the masses liking. Personally i rather liked it, not because it was niche or any of that bunkum, purely because it showed a person enjoying their riding on the bike they like in some lovely mountains.

Same as the lovely spokescycles big mountain day out photos on another thread also make me appreciate what a tip top thing mountain biking is.

god you lot are a bunch of miserable (sweary sweary swear swear swear) at times who just don’t seem to appreciate how much fun bikes are, even if they don’t fit into your narrow little perceptions of what mountain biking is.

Looks remarkably like a Titus Motolite just without the horst link rear end. Could be quite a nice fun ride.

The OPs original video – looks pretty buff to me – nothing to scare a fully rigid bike.

The transition looks Ok -if skill compensation’s your thing 😉

When you say trail bike to me, I visualise a bike that will take me to the back of beyond, thus a SS rigid hardtail.

For a trail park i’d want one of those pogo stick things with lots of boing.