The perfect UK trail bike?

Now, where have we seen that design before…??? 🙂

I bought the future 🙄 🙄

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The “pretentious coffee ****” video was so boring! Fair play for riding all of that fully rigid though.

For me the perfect uk bike is a long travel hardtail with 2×9.

Yeah, that alps vid was rather boring. Could prob quite happily do all that stuff on a bmx but doesn’t mean its the ideal UK trail bike. The thing thatlet that rider down was his lack of speed and the fact you couldn’t help but think that a 130mm fork would of helped him out sooo much

I thought the video was very pleasing on the eye, who really gives a hoot if he was riding slowly, drinking coffee and wrecking his spokes undoing a beer – if he’d been on a Cove Handjob he could’ve just used the built in bottle opener – but hey he was riding and where’s the bad in that.

As for the perfect UK trail bike, it all depends on where and what you’re trails are 8)

hear hear stevebb7, pleasing to the eye thats all.

and same for tazzys last remark,

why a full bouncy for trail parks? maybe here n there,for me i prefer a nice hardtail for them places

steve-b77 – The remark wasn’t solely against the rider but more the right tool for the job. Why the OP of the vid put it up was simply because if this guy could ride that stuff on that bike then thats all you need for stuff in the UK when quite simply this isn’t the case. I was simply sayin i could of done that on a bmx but that doesn;t mean a bmx is the only trail bike you need.

Put it simply, i could drive a fiat 500 round silverstone but for the right job would you take that or an atom/caterham etc ( i mean they both do the same job right? )

simply because if this guy could ride that stuff on that bike then thats all you need for stuff in the UK when quite simply this isn’t the case.

it was done with a massive dose of tongue in cheek but I guess most of you “serious” riders tend to have a sense of humour deficit when it comes to people gently taking the piss. 🙄

to be fair the original video to showcase the awesome 130mm trail bike was flatter than a kippers genitalia hence the “you don’t need a boinger for that” stance.

I’ll leave you chaps to it

the devinci hectic is bloomin good bike for big mountains as well

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

it was done with a massive dose of tongue in cheek but I guess most of you “serious” riders tend to have a sense of humour deficit when it comes to people gently taking the piss.

Sorry Tazzy, i obviously dont understand your sense of humour. All you had to do was put a 🙄 after the original sentence to denote your’massive dose of tongue in cheek’.
And yes i can be a serious rider when i’m racing but most of the time i have a great sense of humour, so since you have never met me or know me i feel that your comment was unjust and not neccessary

did I specifically single you out and say you had no sense of humour? Did i buggery but if you want to take it as a personal slight or a stain on your honour feel free.

I give up on internet forums 😥

there seems to be a combative group of folks who will go out of their way to be grumpy sods even if it means watching a film clip they know they won’t like just so they can then piss and moan about it.

Ignore ’em tazzy. Personally I’m not keen on either 29ers or singlespeeds at the mo’ but (aside from the purpose of this post 😉 ) feel no need to let anyone else know. Loved the video clip though – cool trails, nice music and a chap obviously enjoying his riding . . . what’s not to like 8) . More of the same please . . . oh, and let’s see some more trail bikes.

most of the time i have a great sense of humour

love it.. 😀

theyre obviuosly super awesome riders tazzy 🙂

I know they’re ugly but this is a great trail bike (for little fellas like me, big lads can make them flex a wee bit) as was this, but it was a bit too chunky monkey for the majority of my riding.

The splinter looks like it would take a hammering 🙂 How did it ride?

it was ace but kept egging me on to try things way above my skill/bravery level…. if I’d have kept it at some point it would have gone all “earth/sky/earth/sky/ambulance” in a major way!

the epi is just super fast, very light and gets me out of trouble but still needs some rider input rather than just being a skill compensator. It works for me, loads of people would hate it 🙂

it was ace but kept egging me on to try things way above my skill/bravery level…. if I’d have kept it at some point it would have gone all “earth/sky/earth/sky/ambulance” in a major way!

Yep the ridge has a habit of doing that as well. 😀 Love it though, best bike I have ever ridden.

would still love to have one of these for play days

it’s the splinter MX the big boys version

Not the prettiest thing in the world, but looks like it would be brilliant fun to ride. Shame they don’t make em anymore.

the GRUITR looks like a top bike, sort of orange 5/heckler meets red neck engineering

Ooooh, I like that 8)

mamadirt- you know you want one…..they do a nice jumpy hardtail as well…..you REALLY NEED one of those!!

Are all the Orange 5 riders boycotting this thread?

mama- there is a sinister DNA on fleabay…..get ya paypal out! 😀

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Sinister-dna-dirt-jump-bike-xc-dh-fr-marzocchi-magura-/190476238763?pt=UK_Bikes_GL&hash=item2c5944bfab

hello 😀

Jeez, that was one dull slow video.

Now I’m no skillz guru but even I can see his riding position when descending is horrible – so upright and with such straight arms. Whip round for a skills course?

They also make a 29er, which even I will admit looks pretty cool 🙂

Maybe you guys slagging tazzy video link should take the time to watch some of that guys other videos…

It’s a fair bet that he’s got a lot more bike control than most of you. chiefgrooveguru care to show all of us some of your none straight armed riding technique videos?

tazzymtb – Member
did I specifically single you out and say you had no sense of humour?

Just to clear this one Taz, you quoted something i said then commented on it, so yeah, i would say you were at least including me in it.

Anyway sss, the guy looks like he has got some great skill, i think a more suitable bike would of shown them off better thats all and i would say that i have really great bike control. Dont take my word though, people who have rode with me on here would verify this

Dont take my word though, people who have rode with me on here would verify this

And the same goes for me if you’d care to ask the British ISDE team manager or even the Yamaha UK offroad team manager. 😉

I rode a rigid bike all last year.. it was ace.. really enjoyable..

One of the most enjoyable aspects was that I didn’t spend the whole time bombing over stuff at warp speed and wondering how it happened afterwards..

I travelled everywhere a wee bit slower and with a bit more involvement and appreciaton for what I was achieving.. I’d thoroughly recommend it to all the folks here who are being neggy about tazzy’s vid..
good times

This looks like the sort of terrain we would see

tazzymtb – Member

mama- there is a sinister DNA on fleabay…..get ya paypal out!

Oooh, looks good. I’m watching this at the mo’ though – http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=140486425231&ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT – please somebody buy it so I don’t have to 😕

The second Johannes Pistrol video that Singlespeedstu links above is ace. Would love to be able to ride like that. 🙂

lukeb and rob,so what you think of this other video of him what sss has put up? in your expert opinion? 🙂

on another note.
i have two skill compensators at the moment,Heckler and my old Ellsworth Moment,the Heckler being the newer and fresher of the two,but in all honesty the Ellsworth outshines the Heckler overall,not really getting on with the heckler.

still cant beat a good hardtail eh eh..

Blower – Member

lukeb and rob,so what you think of this other video of him what sss has put up? in your expert opinion?

They’d first need to be experts to have an expert opinion. 😉

Loving both those video clips. Proof that you don’t have to be going fast to have fun.

. Proof that you don’t have to be going fast to have fun.

Nail. Head. Firm stike.