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

Sonder Broken Road? The tailored short between the baggy Chromag and the lycra Arknose.

Salsa Fargo, with 29x2.8" tyres and ridiculously wide drop bars

2.4 ain't XC bro . Why not buy the correct bike in the first place rather than try and upsize a flat-bar gravel bike?

Can I put a tenner on him buying a dropper and some fox gravel forks for the kinesis please?

And £20 on nothing. This is all an excellent troll to see this thread descend into bickering

2.4 ain't XC bro

lol whut?

In b4 2.25-2.35

I did say get an XC bike with bigger clearance :)

No one races XC with 2.4 tyres. No one good anyway.

Apart from that Nino guy, using 2.4 Maxxis Aspens?

hah, that guy with the funny rainbow jersey? he's shit

LOL

Arc en Ciel*

slinks off with tail between legs

To be fair, he lost it this year to a podium full of 2.1-2.2s. Nino hasn't been the same since he moved to 2.4s this season when no one else did*

This may not be the actual reason

@hippy in this thread

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lol

Where my little bro has started working this week.

If nothing it'll save me the cost of the postage for servicing i guess. Pick up and drop off!
My forks and shock are approaching 2yrs old now, so guess i better pop them in sooner rather than later...

Update: 127 vs 100 hrs Fox's guidance. Ah, that's not too bad then.

£10 on @hippy having already bought a bike before posting his question

Regarding 35 & 50mm stems, where your hands want to be is at the point where the line through them intersects the axis of the steerer, so in a nutshell -
If you roll the bars forward - 35mm
If you roll the bars back - 50mm

Now we're talking

Tried this, but it made my road bike look really weird and I crashed

I think it's less important but I'd probably look more closely at sizing and fit when I've narrowed down what I might actually buy.

https://www.polarsteps.com/AndyCox/3640082-european-divide-trail-quickly
http://www.tydomin.com/blog/singlespeeding-the-tour-divide-2017-part-1

but also I don't want to just get an XC bike that's almost the same as my gravel bike. I want something that will cater for some skills improvement. That's why I was thinking bigger tyres for normal use and then if I was doing big distance race I could just stick on smaller, faster tyres.

Yeah, the duallie I rode had 140mm up front and bars wider than my house with 29x2.4.
It was sexy carbon though so was probably lighter than my Tripster :D

This is what I'm thinking. I rode the Badlands on the gravel bike with 38cm bars and aerobars and did ok. But I was definitely not in control on some of the descents. Like full brake lock and the bike is just sliding down the mountain anyway. Haha
If I wasn't shitting myself I'd probably have let it roll but who knows what you're gonna hit around the next corner?

Yeah, I get that too. Hence putting 120mm limit on front suspension.