Ha ha.. nothing screams “FUN!” like a heavy weak bike with mudguards and luggage :lol:

I also find that mine has made me excellent at ignoring trolls extremely territorial and easily offended.

CX bikes are way less fun than roadbikes, nevermind mountainbikes. Basically unless you’re racing CX (1hr of riding rolling grassy/muddy un technical fields ) CX bikes are just a massive compromise.
Just buy faster tyres for your mountainbike if you want to actually have fun or buy a roadbike if you want to get fit and make your commute faster.

being able to do hard sums is a great way to earn enough money to spend lots of it on overpriced bicycles and bicycle outfits and equipments but it really is a waste of all that good work if you don’t really ride and instead rely on the sums instead of common sense and experience to hold your place with fellow cyclists in the “social” side of the hobby.

mtbel will be along shortly to tell you they are all dead easy, and on a road bike.

Now now Jim don’t be a wineycockbagworld cliche.. they are of course all fairly straightforwards on a 100mm hardtail with bald tyres. a roadbike would be quite a poor choice ;)

it’s the weather which makes the golfie more challenging (up and down)

it was v. busy Sunday

Take it easy through the wee rock garden and off the drop to make the turn ;)

Coz “nae spleene”‘s new. nr 3G.

Ah.. had a look at that on the climb.

By other side I meant other side of the tweed. ie. Traquair and Elibank.. you’ve surly ridden most trails there.. thought you’d have helped build the IXS?
But the other side of Caberston has a lot of good trails too. like I said tho, I’m not great with their names.

must remember never to compliment you.. not too difficult a task for me TBH. ;)

ha ha… no. just don’t follow me back and I’ll promise to try not to comment on your rides or give you any kudos. :lol:

we just did a loop taking in both sides of the valley. climbed up and rode spleene twice so my mate could crash in the rocks before the drop each time.. first time I’d ridden that, sooo good to ride something up the golfie with intentional doubles :) then we just rode aussie and lower jawbone then into the cafe at walkerburn before heading up to ride a mix of the IXS and some older DH tracks on the otherside.

MC was with us for the first bit before making his excuses and keeping himself hidden away from humans for the rest of the day.

dunno what nyny the sequel is (I’m not too great with trail names)

Was up there most of today too NW. what did you ride?

At the moment I’m trying to make it as easy as possible to move on from the “just walking it around” phase.

a slight downward gradient is your friend there ;)

it’s entirely personal to you and your kid so don’t listen to any one piece of advice like it’s absolute gospel.
it’s all a compromise so don’t be afraid to experiment to find what works best for your child.
balls of the feet touching (but not heels) will promote forward movement and actual balancing sooner but the child may not feel as stable starting out. Even with a really low seat feet flat on the floor with very bent legs they’ll still eventually “get” it. if they’re actually interested of course, not all kids are.

with no lid

is that how you got the bald patch?

be careful out there kids ;)

When you find that sweet spot of balance, do you automatically go back to it every time so it becomes second nature?

Yes!

Keep practicing

Here’s me, on my c456

hah ha ha ha aha ha…

That right there is GOLD! :lol:

I have no interest in making or starring in videos just riding bikes and occasionally discussing it, even with folk who just watch videos of it.

TBF if the poor fellow in your last pic is trying to manual he looks like a retard.
his seat is far too high

do you even ride dude?

Oh.. you’re an internet cyclist? I see now :roll:

DT is correct. I don’t ever use my rear brake to manual

Ha ha.. so this still has legs :lol:

basic anatomy of a human being means you cannot get your CofG “behind” the rear axle centre line without tilting the bike upwards to quite a steep angle

This ^ is absolute rubbish!

Do you have really poor flexibility or something Max? (ie. do you find it difficult to touch your toes?).
To get your CoG back far enough, what is needed is decent enough lower back flexibility to get really low hanging back off the bars and trust me, this is possible on a standard mtb wheelbase.
I have no interest in looking at ANY videos or PICs as I can already achieve what you seem to deem impossible.

my BMX chainstays are 14.5″
my hardtails chainstays 16-17″
and there’s only an inch difference between TT lengths.
with my 33″ inseam I truly don’t find it too difficult to get my CoG far enough back.

I’m not sure why you are finding this so difficult to believe.

Rode local trails with the bairn this morning on our BMXs then again in the afternoon after spending most of the morning in the Park. lovely and dry and sunny and nice and far away from Swindon. 8)

:lol:

lol :lol:

Sounds like your Garmin simply lost the will to live through extreme boredom. This is a fairly common occurrence for electronic devices used to logging interesting GPS co-ordinates with actual variance in speed and elevation.

Blog servers also often go to sleep when the pics from such outings are uploaded too.

Hope this helps

The “fool” speaks the truth!

Where’s everybody riding Sunday?

murdered out = unimaginative.

Yeah, quite possibly. But a fully murdered out bike is actually quite a difficult achievement.

Also I hate a slammed saddle on a BMX, need at least a fist full of seatpost.

not a huge fan of the look myself either but notice even racers often run fully slammed saddles these days. I’m generally the oldest and only rider with a seatpost showing at my local skatepark. I happen to hate overly padded saddles on BMXs as well though. picky, eh?

BMXs just look like childrens bikes

Everyone I’ve ever actually heard say the above out loud (unless taking the piss) has been a very very dull human being.

No. how about you come here and I’ll show you?

Glad to see your arithmetic is improving, now brush your teeth and off to bed… it might only be a half day but you still have school in the morning.

I’ll be up to read you a story soon. :twisted:

Ha ha :lol:

No one else find logos on and around wheels ugly?

freehub/freewheel

For me the nicest looking bike frames are still traditional double triangle designs, it’s all about clean lines so the only good looking full sus bikes are ones with suspension designs that resemble hardtails in look and the best looking hardtails are always smaller ones resembling BMXs.
so yeah.. BMXs! they look the best. I don’t like colours much either so to me any old Murdered out BMX looks way nicer than a £7k mtb.

Been out for a couple of hours on my BMX round local trails in the sun this afternoon.
I often use a BMX when I ride with my kids as it makes me appreciate how their wheels roll and it stops me leading them anywhere too rough or boggy.

30 psi (ish)

No. 60psi unless you are an 8yr old child

just like the thread a few days ago on BMX commuting there’s an awful lot of nonsense from non BMX riders.

I’ve ridden way over 10000 hours

Danny Hart also manuals off drops and rear wheel lands more than most top 10 WCers.

As i have shown

You haven’t “shown” shit.

You are correct that a longer wheelbase makes the move slightly more difficult but as we don’t all ride around on bikes with Steve Jones/Chris Porter approved battleship wheelbases (yet? :roll: ) it is still possible on an mtb.

You can type as much theory on the subject as you want but the Fact here is that I can manage it just fine on all my MTBs. All 7 bikes are 26″ wheel with wheelbases ranging from 42″ -46″ and stays ranging from 16″-17.25. I’m 5’11” with a 33″ inseam if you want to geek out on the theory to try and disprove something I regularly manage just fine.

but you make it “heavy” for a bit by pumping the bike into the ground so that when it (and you) rebounds, it’s “light” for a bit)

hanging off your bars with your arse as far back as it will go and pushing the pedals away from you has nothing to do with “rebound”. You are effectively using the bars as a pivot and your arse as leverage to push the rear wheel forwards (not into the ground).

More seriously, on a proper, full sized mountain bike, unless you’ve got your stem on backwards, or are wearing a backpack full of concrete, there’s no way you’re going to be able to hold a permanent flat land manual with the front wheel just 1″ above the ground.

Like I already said. You’re wrong!

Seriously!

I’ve never once met or ridden with anyone who bothers to manual downhill style drops.

Doesn’t mean you can’t. Does it? or is this another one of your “rules”

That’s part of a normal pumping technique!

Not the part being talked about by you though.

now you are making up rules for no actual reason Tom.

Tom I think you are confusing Max using a lot of impressive words with having a good understanding of bike dynamics.
Max is wrong on a couple of points:
firstly, as I said before, think about how far back your weight has to be to manual with your front wheel only an inch from the ground?
secondly, I can lift the front of my hardtail by simply rotating my weight rearwards (as above) and a slight push from my feet. no front wheel pump required whatsoever.
Your high front wheel manual pic is a really poor example of how far back you can move your weight.