Let's offroad / mountain bike / mtb / ride dirt

Oh, and don't let the trail colour gradings mean too much to you. some trails are steep and not jumpy, some are mellow but laden with kickers and berms, explore and go easy, I was consistently clearing a 15' (I'm guessing - it was probably 15") tabletop by my last day, I've previously been a big wuss-bag in the air.

I'm taking the Stanton to morzine in august.

Will I die?

We'll all die one day.

Is that the bike with the leaky Hope brakes?

@Howard

Maybe...

The lift season has only just started and the trails are already quite braking-bumpy. The weather out there has been 30+C and the trails are dusty as fuck. I reckon you'd have a better time on a FS, but it's still all about the rider.

GF and I were both on long travel FS bikes and did several 50km xc rides as well as caning the DH stuff, she was fine all week, I got achy shoulders and neck from (being a pussy) my pack. The Stanton will survive anything you do to it, but you might just feel a bit beaten up after a week. I'd have happily rode my DMR hardtail but I reckon I'd have had enough (of the riding I wanted to do) after a few days.

Out mate was on a Marin B12 (I think) it's a tough all rounder hardtail and he was fine though avoided gnar DH because it's not his thing.

Whatever you're riding I think you'll love it out there.

I can't link off my phone but google "Vimeo true life morzine" for a new vid from some fast riders showing a lot of the trails and even more irritating slow mo

Ta - food for thought. Think I'll bring the Stanton over and rent some FS if I feel I need it.

Saracen was well lulz on a quick off road jaunt yesterday.

Pls can someone recommend a 26" tyre for a mix of road and hardish trails, I currently have a choice of big fat slicks, which don't work on the trails if it's rained, or full on mud pluggers which are noisy and slow on the road, so I want something inbetween.

These? http://www.chainreactioncycles.com/continental-race-king-mtb-tyre/rp-prod30196

I'd ideally like a gumwall, but can't see that such a thing exists.

It's always going to be a compromise, but I've used these on mixed surface rides before with some success. Halo Twin Rail 26 x 2.2

Hmm. They look very interesting indeed. Thanks.

This is the biek:

I'm putting a rigid fork on it (colour undecided, open to suggestions) and I think gumwalls woud look aces.

open to suggestions

Exotic crabon?

Gum walls look to Halo, the H-block/Choir master/Twin rail came in folding gumwalls.
Charge had a special WTB tyre for it's bikes but the tyre was OEM only and not sold aftermarket, although you might some out there somewhere.

Finding 26" gumwalls is not easy as not many are made, the retro/fashion for 26" tyres is so small no one bothers, so whatever limited choice you find is it, unless you start looking to NOS and pay the prices for hard to find old model gumwalls. Retro bike might be a good search for NOS.
Fashion over function and cost over availablity.

Travel contacts? I use them on everything, they only really lose out in wet mud. Puncture resistant + semi gumwall coloured too.

Think Charge Splashbacks are available on eBay if i remember right

https://www.compasscycle.com/product-category/components/tires/26-inch/

There's something wider coming too

https://janheine.wordpress.com/2015/06/09/compass-tire-prototypes-really-big-tires/

Dmr supermoto tyres are 26" gumwall and mildly treaded, worth a look?

I've got a Charge Splashback 2.1 you could have for £5 - http://www.lfgss.com/conversations/269782/#comment12344951

Splashbacks are nice and light, look fine, but I got rather too many punctures. The 1.8s would be better if you're going to do a lot of riding on the road, for which they'd be ok, not great, but a lot better than the vast majority of mtb tyres.

good fuckin tyres.
used to ride them on my old FGFS

Thanks y'all.

I don't think the supermotos will have the off-road traction I need and the travel contacts aren't gumwally enough.

Both the splashbacks and twinrails look good tho. The splashbacks are miles lighter (500g vs 800g) but the twinrails look like they'd roll quicker on the road.

Can someone decide for me please thanks.

Twinrails are terrible.

Maxxis DTH are pretty good.

@IR has been using twin rails on his retro mtb. Not sure if he took them onto any trails though.

Terrible how?

Maxxis DTH are apparently only available for BMXs