Yes, mf it does matter.

I didn’t think it was such a challenging question, OP clearly doesn’t think the same.

Of course height matters

It’s not just about strength when landing drops.
How tall are you?
How heavy?
How/where do you ride?
And what do you ride? (Inc set-up?)
All matter!

Fair enough

8.5mm drill bit and a cheap tube Sorted 😉

If you want moar power you want to be be stood up so a lot of that power comes from your core .. road cycling technique is pretty irrelivent to most mtb riding (or it ‘should’ be)

Still on the diet mol? Shouldn’t you have wasted away by now?

Fun you are allowed to ride round the puddles, boost off lips and drift sweet corners, open you must ride the sheep line and run the fun bits.
😉

I’d imagine No of laps and entry cost/requirement may be less for “fun” entrants

8 in perfect working order, 1 in perfect working order other than the brake calipers/levers are sat in a box. 5min job to fit.

Why long travel?

You probably need to find something with around a 21″ or less tt length

Why not ask them directly if you’r that bothered?

Riding, sex, drinking, drugs and music. Not necessarily all at the same time.
my kids are fantastic but in a very different way to the above.
Couldn’t really GAF about pets or accurate clocks tho.

That cut-out on the lever makes it stupidly weak and bushing parts are poor quality..

It’s not difficult to design a good QR clamp (like shimano did) and I see no reason for the stupidly high price of the half decent ones available.

Identity ones shit too.

clogged up forks/chain+seat stays.

you think disc calipers don’t clog up too? (have you missed the amount of moaning about wearing out pads in one ride or less on here?) plus, how can you blame clogged up chainstays on a brake mounted on the seatstays?

thing is… in muddy conditions your bike rolls way slower and braking lessens grip so why are you wanting “better” brakes? sounds like some of you you might be a bit scared of riding in mud to me.

pretty bloody obvious chvck but here you go:
“XC descent”? = any descent on an XC ride. (and I did say “most”)
XC ride = up/down/along and mainly off road.

Er.. yes I have, they twisted, hence my reply
XTR feel about as stiff as Xt (which compared to Saint isn’t very)

Old Saints go s/h for about 40quid, and are so solid they’re rarely damaged other than cosmetically.

IME XTR aren’t v strong or stiff.

The original point was that many frames and forks don’t come with bosses for rim brakes anymore. 🙄

You’re an absolute fanny if you honestly believe discs will make you any faster or more in control on most XC descents.

Eh? one finger braking is fine with v brakes.

like I said

it’s just yet another poor design still around from when roadbikes were the only high end bikes made.

remind me again why mountainbike event organisers still bother with the UCI?

Vodafone do a PAYG smartphone for 50quid, middle child has one, seems to do everything mine does.

There is no question to answer here that can’t be answered better by YOU!

When would you use Pro Pedal 2 ?

only in the text of the for sale ad 😉

Patience dude!!

😉

I have a plastic one similar to Soma Rich’s pic above ziptied onto my DH bikes downtube. – stupidly DH bikes almost never have bottle cage mounts anymore.
I’d love to have one on my hardtail too but being a 14″ Jump frame there’s no room in the front triangle.

MTG – it’s just yet another poor design still around from when roadbikes were the only high end bikes made. easily gotten round with the correct (often plastic) cage.

Massively agree with op.

Why do folk insist on using female DHers as an example of strength with flows?
It’s massively irlellivent.

721s build noticably far stiffer wheels.

What does “red” mean Bob?

Was at Glencoe Ski centre yesterday for the SDA DH race and didn’t see any information about this at all :/ , don’t know if that highlights a lack in my observation skills or the Ski centres poor promotion but you’d have though an event with 300 mtbers, families and friends would have been a pretty good place to shout about it.
from the lift you can clearly see a wider less steep/rocky/technical track coming down the left hand side of the hill, doubt I’d ever ride it with the DH track being there TBH but more trails/tracks is good news.

Just remove them and leve them un stickered.

Reba decals are particularly ugly anyway

stop thinking about it.. buy him a cheap ball and play with him with it. If he enjoys it, you “should” too 🙂 .
TBH as soon as kids can hold a ball they are ready to enjoy playing with one, You can leave the structured/club thing until he actually wants to.

You’ll be a taxi service/sidelines Dad soon enough once he joins all the afterschool/weekend activities they hear about through School. I’d make the most of your time together now.

…another example of ‘clueless moronic drivel’ ^^

*sent from my playstation

No.

Yes.

Quit whining.

Thanks for the warning Project

If you’re doing the blender justice go less travel and less sag.
A shorter stiffer fork will pump, jump and turn better with a firm set-up

TBF if you’re struggling to work it out, bikebouy’s advice might be best here.

pretty shite description.

bunnyhopping one bike length isn’t difficult so it depends on the height of the step-up, dig a lip and jumping it will be easy.

^^ Common sense prevails

Good to see in these days of blind H&S bullshit

Aside from various ways of braking on a skateboard, you can just jump off,

same with a BMX 🙄

so it’s essentially the equivalent of running.

other than leaving a wheeled projectile to cause carnage, a BMX bigger, granted, but less likely to keep going straight through the park.

Stopping is easy when you’re running, is it not?

not instantly, no, and it get’s even more dificult if you add in a slope.

Not all skateparks necesarilly enforce it….blah, blah..

– “Yes, sorry I was talking bollox” “sorry, some skateparks don’t allow brakeless BMXs” would have been far quicker to type and a more honest reply.

without even the ability to slow down never mind stop

this is simply not true! you’ve never paid attention to a good brakeless BMX rider or ridden brakeless yourself, have you?

I absolutely love watching a good brakeless rider properly scrub (without using their shoe) off speed in indoor parks. Done well it’s such a committed, fluid and controlled manouver.

Oh.. and blame is relevant, poor skate park etiquette, is more of a problem than lack of brakes.. personally I blame the parents!

As a skater, I would beg to differ. It’s friggin’ dangerous.

So what brake do you have fitted to your skateboard?

And most skateparks don’t allow it for that reason.

well that’s a load of bollox.
I do use a brake and I’ve had collisions with skaters and inliners in parks, each time it was 100% their fault.