Ok, if you’re all so tough and manly then why aren’t you all spinning out the highest gear on downhills which happens to me??

I feel the lowest gear isn’t low enough,

FFS, make your mind up.

Makes perfect sense.

+ The 44 ring is only for flying downhill on fireroads and roads. Chill out and freewheel, it is more fun and saves energy.

And is a lot slower for racing – you can’t win in an event like Kielder 100 with less than a 42 up front I imagine.

+ If you are winching yourself up a hill in 22/32, walking is probably more efficient

It’s slower if you add in the time of mountain and dismounting every time.

+ Having to push a low gear that isn’t winching yourself uphill makes you stronger and is more satisfying

…. and less efficient.

Double post.

If your racing you need to get stronger. There are reasons why 2x* makes sense.

If you want to go back to 3x* do so, but be aware that if you pick the right chainrings and cassette there is very little benefit to be gained. and you do gain a few problems.

Seems like you have more problems with 1x or 2x with the rate the rear mech wears out.

As for climb size, Le Chable to Col de Gentiannes in the Val de Bagnes on a 2×9, in prep for the Grand Raid Cristalp. Is that a big enough climb?

Really depends on the gradient, I’m not familiar with that climb.

Climb hardness has nothing to do with size, the south downs vs the Cairngorms, they are different nothing more.

Well South Downs are rolling and mellow so no probs on a 2x or 1x, haven’t ridden Cairngorms but I imagine the climbs are steeper and longer. I know you can have a hard steep climb thats reasonably short, and these kind of climbs one after another are when the granny ring comes in handy.

Ok, if you’re all so tough and manly then why aren’t you all spinning out the highest gear on downhills which happens to me??

And it’s not really a case of getting stronger or tougher as a lot of you have said, Ive done five 24 hour solo races and I’m probably fitter/stronger than most people here.

20 gears is more than enough to ride anything.

Vaguest statement of the year award goes to you, well done :wink: .

It does seem like its a bit of a macho man statement people are trying to make here, as if you need to show off your hardness and push through with the 2 / 1×10, in sort of a “GGRRRRR look at me” type way. Slightly pathetic really.
I don’t see the point in going 1 or 2 by ten unless

A) You ride mostly in the South Downs.
B) You’re an XC racer and rarely out of the big ring.
C) You are a total weight weenie and want to save the 10 gram’s, or whatever it is.

So you need to get stronger then.

No, I need to go back to 3 rings on the front. :roll:

1×10 (32 and 11/36). No issues and rode up everything in the Alps recently.

Just because you can ride up it, doesn’t mean you wouldn’t be more efficient with a better gear ratio and higher cadence.

I can “ride up” most things with my 2×10, I’m often in a lower cadence than I feel comfortable in though.

What kind of terrain are you happy 2×10 users riding? The South Downs or something similar to that? :?

What are the winners running? I’d say just get stronger still applies…

Easy to say, not so easy to apply at 8am the next day.

why do you need more than 1×10. 34t front and a 34/11 back.

Just get stronger.

Have you ever done a 24 hour solo or a 7 day mountain bike stage race? Come back to me with a different answer if you haven’t. The last thing I want to be doing in an endurance event is haven’t to grind up a steep single-track switchback climb with low cadence in my lowest gear with 2×10, thinking about how much I want my granny gear back!

I can see how 2×10 / 1×10 might have some advantages, but not for my type of racing.

IanMunro – Member
I had a nice mini Forest Gump moment yesterday.
I went out to do my typical 9 mile Sunday run, then felt ok early on so changed it to a 12 miles, got within a mile of home, then decide I still felt fine so added on another loop and ended up doing just over 20 miles

LOL!!! :lol:

If all the road bikes here had deep section rims they’d all look 10x better!!!!!! (I know about half do).

DTs should be fine with tape. Just do it.

Really?

Sounds like a plan then. How do you get the valve to seal properly? Do your tyres ever burp?

Ive run Stans tubeless system a few times before, mostly with Stans rims though. I had hoped to have my current bike set up tubeless long ago, but things got in the way.

Yes I agree, usually I hate making changes on my bike this close to a race, its one of the big no no’s in my book. If it works out though it will be much better than tubes! I usually carry a spare tube, and pump even when running tubeless, to be safe.

I have already put some on order but they won’t arrive on time for my race.

They’re DT rims. Still good to go?

Also, why do some highlights tell you who won the stage before the race footage starts playing, the mind boggles.

Yeah, they just look really daft with the black and blue Sky kit. Didn’t realize it was just a team leader thing!

:lol:

Road or MTB??

from santa cruz UK

Who the bloody hell is that? Does anyone know??

Bits of red go with it well, and black obviously.

Maxxis Ignitor up front, Maxxis Advantage out back.

If only he was driving wearing sunglases, or the coach washers where working properley, or the cyclists where some place else.

+ 1 on the sunglasses.

If you make it down south then hit up the raven trail at Brechfa. Probably the best trail centre trail I’ve ever ridden.

I’m pretty sure the whole of the peleton is doping, so it sort of makes it fair in a way. Lance seemed so much better than all the others in his time so even if no one them were doping I still think he would have won.

Tomcats!!! :lol:

Junkyard – Member
oh ok I will join in

Breakfast – nowt

Not having breakfast is possibly the biggest dietary fail around.

Some of you guys have your bars sooo high. :?

Bump…

Powers Of Three – Amazing Irish surf film. Free to watch on line too! Just a quick google required.

Does the course loop back near the start so that you get a heads-up for when your team member is almost round?

Yes it does. From what I remember from last year, you wind through the start finish area and continue on to a different part of the course about 2/3rds the way into the lap.

I’m pretty sure these kind of bikes were designed for snow, NOT sand. Well they definitely serve a better purpose in snow anyway, think along the lines of The Yukon Arctic Ultra. :wink:

I’ll 2nd purely custom, used them a few times.

Are you sure there’s not a typo with the price? 8O

Ive only been riding one for two days, just collected my new Rocky Mountain Element 950 a few days ago. Been riding black diamond trails here in Whistler for the past two days, there was a couple of sections I had to walk down a few sections on each one, but I think I wouldn’t have ridden those parts anyway unless I was on long travel bike with a slack head angle, and knew the trail better.

It’s grease, ffs!!! :roll:

Its the usual selection of middle class twits on here who dont approve of him.

This ^^^^^

He’s a legend.