XC bike for the downhiller
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Hell yeah.
I’ll never forget the first enduro™️ race I ever did in Bellingham that was won by a dude on a carbon hard tail with a 90mm fork. The trails were fairly rowdy but obviously favored pedaling. Not trying to throw shade but this idea that travel somehow determines what someone can do on a bike is short sighted. Personally I think something with 120-130mm rear a 66* ish ha a piggyback shock and 140 or so up front is plenty at least where I live. More squish may bail you out at times but it also is more work on flatter sections of trail.
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Hey, I’m 53, I have to cling to my feeble delusions.
I don’t think I rode Crosier Last year. What the hell was it rode up there last season? Oh yeah... I remember now.
Trail Pistol eh? Seems like a good choice for a Little Browns. Maybe we can ride that this summer, if we’re ever allowed out do the house again
Yes. Klaus. Good dude. Wacky, but good.Any of you Colorado monkeys see any names you know?
Moar dis heckling pls.
I deserve it! I was just curious if anyone knew any of the other riders, and how they ride. I find it hard to believe that 30% of the fastest guys in Colorado wouldn’t have absolutely smoked me.
none of those words you made prove anything but the following:
1. Endurpo 'courses' suck and end up just being another xc pedal contest
2. You need to ride better shit so that you understand the role of quality, abundant travel
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He must be thinking of someone else, I'm not nearly that tall.
Definitely all that but also 3. Logan lives there, knows those trails like like back of his hand, and is fast as fuck just in general, including and not limited to on a big wheel, probably.
all probably true. Abundant travel is nice, I was just pointing to the fact that often times on my trails it is more work to gain speed with more travel. Your results may vary. I’ve ridden my fair share of what most would consider dentist level shit.
Sao make your big mushy bike moar stiffer in springz and damping to go faster.
Nah, I live in a high alpine desert. Anything that remotely points downhill here turns into a buttcrack after one summer. so most of the trails are low grade and I know short travel, efficient bikes go faster on most of that.
I get your point. It's just not a wholesale dismissal of why long travel bikes exist. I buy them and just ride better trails as much as possible.
Little Browns, yes, let’s do it.
Nothing more appropriate than 29ers on a trail called 'little browns'
That's what I keep leaving on the back tire.
That's what I keep leaving on the back tire.
Speaking of KOM’s and Little Brown’s....go look that one up 
Tell me more about strava
I care
A lot
You see what 29ers do to your brain? I warned you. I really did.
I care
A lot
You see what 29ers do to your brain? I warned you. I really did.
Maybe he finally drank some Whisky.Also, I'm glad to hear that @Gary is snarky so he MUST be feeling better!
I always thought the old Kona heihei was a perfect shreddy xc bike. Slack, short travel, but not too xc nor dh. I know people on this forum can't ride bikes without 500mm of reach and a 62 degree head angle, but more aggressive numbers make bikes go up and down good too
i've been yelling "STRAVAAAAAAAAAAAA" while playing downhill domination in the basement. my wife isn't sure what to think.
wow, kona really fucked up the 2020 hei hei. killed the seat angle, killed the leverage rate, and gave it an inline shock to increase lateral friction on the shock shaft. keep product managers away from bike design people.
I stopped riding with my local buddies because of strava.
Morons were melting their brakes on any type of “descent” and full on road raging on the flat bits to get their strava times up.
Back in the day I had like a cycle tracker app to see how many KMs I did but I got rid of that stuff a long time ago.
Took all the fun out of riding for me.
Morons were melting their brakes on any type of “descent” and full on road raging on the flat bits to get their strava times up.
Back in the day I had like a cycle tracker app to see how many KMs I did but I got rid of that stuff a long time ago.
Took all the fun out of riding for me.
Yes.the center or the edge?
Same, that's pretty much our social nemba riding scene here. They also get offended when you tell them to either lay off the brakes, got get off the front of the pack.
IF I had a wife* and a basement here there'd be a lot of yelling coming from it too. The playstation would still be upstairs plugged into the main TV like it should be though
*someone elses obvs
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i've seen that but i honestly don't play a lot of video games. the newest system i have is a PS3, and these days that's only used as a bluray player.
Slack hardtail is still fun, capable in the front, bouncy in the back.
But if I felt the need to move to bigger wheels and a back bump tamer I'd be struggling to go past a Whyte S120, 120mm travel and a 65.6 deg HA, it would let you get a bit rowdy in the backcunty mud,
But if I felt the need to move to bigger wheels and a back bump tamer I'd be struggling to go past a Whyte S120, 120mm travel and a 65.6 deg HA, it would let you get a bit rowdy in the backcunty mud,
Eh?
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the one thing that seems to be true every time this thread pops up is that everybody has a different interpretation of XC bike for a downhiller. Some people want a lightweight, aggressive geometry short travel bike. Some people want a 9000lb steel dirt jumper. Others demand at least 7" of travel and 26" wheels. At the end of the day, I think it's safe to conclude that this question sucks
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