It’s a shame for the large crowds that come to watch, including a lot of kids – there cant be that many other sports where you have such open access to talk to the pros, kids get photos / autographs etc. Shame for the local economy and a shame for GB in general not having a race.

However I’m surprised anyone on here cares – its just a bunch of oiks that don’t even pedal up the hill, isnt it ;-) ?

You might die – depends what you crash into and at what speed ;-)

Grippiest tyres on the back if just buying two would be best, to try and avoid snap oversteer.

Probably wont happen in normal driving conditions but it might do if the roads are icy.

We have Goodyear Vector 4 Season all round and they were great in the snow and all the rain last winter, you notice the longer braking and a bit of understeer in the summer though.

bike parks are for lazy people !

What a load of BS – the usual STW highbrow snobbery that comes out in all the posts

After a quick squint at the forum a couple of times since posting this I should have added

– Oasis

– Grand Tour / Top Gear

– Cars – unless electric, a camper van or lightweight 2 seater sports

– Rob Warner

– Sam pilgrim

– anything new and / or expensive – unless it’s obscure slippers, toothbrush, coffee press etc

– any popular music – unless it’s Coldplay

– having fun

– any comedian unless it’s Stewart Lee

– Uplifts

– anything with more than 120mm travel – as why would you need anything other than a Planet X hardtail

– any bike industry innovation – as these private companies are just trying to sell us new w product – imagine !

– prime time tv

Well how predictable- the STW posters sneer at Oasis, too common I guess. Most would be Coldplay and Blur fans anyway ?

Are Shimano motors really as bad as suggested, I’m just asking out of interest and as currently considering a Merida, Heckler and Nukeproof ebb, all with EP8’s.

Is it just a case that we only ever hear about the ones that go wrong with no consideration of the proportion that have no problems – whatever that proportion might be ?

Maybe better to wait until 2024 model years are out and see which motors are being used, despite most will likley be more expensive than current offers.

Anywho, what’s this post about again, oh yeah SRAM’s new eagle stuff.

Indeed it is, the system looks pretty cool to me, better shifting and better suited to ebikes

That’s interesting, I’ve never heard anyone make an argument like that before. I’m going to go and have a really, *really* good think about it and get back to you

Ok, cant wait…..why is it always the free members..

I also found out that some of the chocolate I ate a few years back relied on some forced labour in the supply chain, so I’m just going to go ahead and campaign for the return of the slave trade

Please yourself, not sure what that has to do with the fact that if you own a mountain bike then the resources used to make, sell and ride it could have been used for something more worthy, given your concern about our ecological situation and how any new innovation should be limited by what went before.

Sure, I appreciate technological progress, but our global ecological situation really needs us to prioritise maximising the useful life of products and ensuring things don’t go obsolete. It doesn’t do that

Should you be mountain biking at all then – surely its just a waste of resources regardless of the mech you are using – better to spend your time planting beans or something.

These threads with anything remotely new or ‘different’ or, god help us… expensive, always go the same way. I guarantee the release of the first dropper post would have had a similar theme! Or the first carbon framed MTB, or the first disc brake…

Exactly, so many ready to scoff at anything new or expensive because they know better and that some obscure or vintage product they suggest will apparently do exactly the same job.

SRAM are a business. Their business is selling bike components, they dont need to justify the price or design to anyone. If they think they can sell them then that’s all they should be concerned about. I dont understand why so many seem to think they have some sort of duty to do anything else.

Goodness, imagine a private company innovating and coming up with new products for them to sell, to keep their company going and making money. They should still be making triple chainsets and handing them out for free, anything else is obviously some sort of high level plot to extract money from the average Single Track reader. Don’t like it or see the point of it, don’t buy it !

http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/rob-warner-voice-of-dh-staying-with-red-bull/page/2/#post-12478581

In no way is WC DH boring to watch, I dont know why the average Singletrack reader is so sniffy and dismissive of it and seem to be way more interested in TDF, politics, what new watch to buy or what to invest in (yawn).

I’ll give you XC being boring though and Endro to an extent.

Who cares ! – so many pompous riders that think they are some sort of “purists” and quietly scoff any anyone having fun and daring to ride a line/trail with anything over 100mm travel. Always ready to pontificate on here about how their cobbled together, cheap, short travel/hardtail bike is all you need. Would never say it to anyones face though

Yes, ha ha, never understand the amount of laboured chat on here about the TDF, rugby, what next n+1 watch to buy, which shares to buy etc. etc. – MTB racing in comparison seems to get ignored apart from a few posts which then get abuse for daring to mention who won !

Hi, thanks.

I’ve specced an XT / Pike ultimate 9C for approx £3.7k.

Locally I can get the last available SC Hightower C S for £5.4K or there is A Nukeproof Reactor Factory at £5.3k or swap over my hardtail parts onto an Orange Stage Evo frame for approx £2.3k

Nothing else left other than a couple of Trek Fuels

What am getting at is the limited forum views seem to think the 9c is quite good but is that because it’s cheap compared to others and you can speak to the owner of birds online.

Would it still be good if priced similar to a Santa Cruz for example.
I’m not sure what advantage being able to speak to the company owner is if there is a problem, you just want to speak to someone who will sort it out.

I’m not tall so the Tallboy geo isn’t a problem, I like the simplicity of Oranges but not ridden a full sus, I’d be buying the Bird through a dealer rather than online myself so dealer network compared to Tranisiton not an issue, not sure why I’d want a nukeproof frame only ? However I can order a complete reactor factory build in my size.

Cheers

Transition Spur or Santa Cruz Tallboy or Pivot Trail 429 or Orange Stage Evo ?

Of course frames are designed with a particular offset – the marketing BS is wether it then makes any different to a frame designed with a different but almost the same i.e. less than 10mm offset.

Nope not run it – I have a 51mm fork on an existing bike that Im considering stripping all the components off of to use on a new frame that runs a 42mm offset. So its basically the opposite of what a lot of other riders are querying / looking to do.

What has being “Scottish” got to do with it ?