Its been away to the Passportes de Soliel for its summer holidays doin` enduro trails…..

I’m all about ‘Back Country’ riding these days… that’s where it at.

I’m all about ‘Back Country’ riding these days

Me too, preferably “big mountain” back country.

And not in the Black Country.

‘Aggressive XC’ was a particular favourite of mine.

I’m all about Whole-Mountain+ or XXXC these days.

What about trail bikes? I thought they were all mountain these days?!

Mine’s not so much ‘all mountain’ more ‘most hills’, though I do ride it from the south coast to the north coast periodically, so maybe that makes it ‘cross country’? If it’s a trail bike are you only allowed to use it on fireroads? Perhaps it’s more ‘miduro’ than enduro being a hardtail and all.

jameso – Member

Aha. So this is a cross-country bike!

That could fall under my “lightweight shit at everything” category, if it was light 😉

I thought ‘All Mountain’ was DH for fun?

Am I not ‘on trend’?

What’s ‘Enduro’?

I’m still not sure what “trail bike” is meant to mean, seeing as you get trails of all gnar levels from green to double black diamond.

Tom

Trail Bike is dictated by which forum you frequent not which grade the trail is !
Just ignore those coloured signs and ride round them the wrong way !

It’s all the rage, or at least it is every time I ride a trail centre

CEM – climb every mountain, even a handy theme tune to use for any marketeers out there.

Northwind, I’m not sure where to start.. )

Jurno’s and marketing chaps and chapesess moved on 😮

I ride a hardtail with a 150mm fork, what’s that? ‘Hard Mountain’?

I ride a hardtail with a 150mm fork, what’s that? ‘Hard Mountain’?

Broke back mountain?! 😉

Same as it ever was. Bike plus mountain.

Enduro is just the race format; no worries on the way up, time trial on the way down.

I ride a hardtail with a 150mm fork, what’s that?

An unbalanced feeling bike with needlessly high front end/bb?

Someone should use the term ‘Big Country’ for a laugh.

Discoduck: to right even the odd neeeeowm . Best bit is when going over a particularly bouncy bit is just opening your mouth and seeing whatcomes out.

Has anyone mentioned trail bikes yet , they would seem to be what used to be am bikes only maybe a bit lighter

But then as you can have a 160 mm bike at 28-29lb
Is that just a normal bike now rather than a big big

Oh god think I’ve confused my self now and going to dig out the rigid single speed for some sanity

Rigid singlespeed !

That’s hard mountain,

Mine is a do it all triple 9 speed 100mm travel with 26inch wheels it seems to be ok !

walleater – Member
Someone should use the term ‘Big Country’ for a laugh.

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Been Done!!!!!!!

Some of us are riding DH frames as AM bikes… back when 6″ was considered “long travel”…