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

2020 road bikes have wider tyres than 2000 MTBs

then got for 66.5 or so ha, not 69

Bears eat huge amounts of food every day, but they know when they are beaten.

Cotic Solaris MAX is sounding best suited so far. Then either run 120mm forks with lighter tyres or 140mm forks with chunky tread, depending on what you're doing

I like Surlys, but they've become too expensive for what you get

I give up.

Buy a trail bike

Don't moan when it sucks to pedal between all the steep bits

LOLd

Like I know what a trail bike is :P

How am I supposed to know when the headlines read "2020 SolarisMAX is Cotic’s downcountry hardtail for enduro & bikepacking w/wagon wheels"

https://bikerumor.com/2020/06/19/2020-solarismax-is-cotics-downcountry-hardtail-for-enduro-bikepacking-w-wagon-wheels/

Enduro & Bikepacking? Like, WTF?

Yes!! I was waiting for when we would see the word "downcountry"!

What does it even mean? and didn't it used to be backcountry?

Fuck this, I'm sticking with road.

Short travel trail bikes or something. Dunno, shut up and buy more bikes

Lots of love,
Marketing exec

No idea! As far as I can tell it means 120 mm travel. Then 140 mm must be trail, 160 mm enduro, and beyond that who cares?

Just buy something. Then realise in 6 months time you should have bought something else.

Enduro & Bikepacking?

I think I kind of did that once, on an overnighter when my route went past a bike park that was closed after the season so I rode down a few of the trails with the bags on the bike. I don't think it is a thing really though.

What's my 150mm hardtail in marketing speak? Deep-country? Country and Western?

Burls or Walty custom titanium?
Mmm custom

Hardcore hardtail 🤷🏽‍♂️

Hardcore hardtail

Nah

https://www.pinkbike.com/news/chromag-doctahawk-a-super-aggressive-180mm-29er-hardtail.html

Poor @Dammit missing those 3cms of bounce

Gopping

kind request to people to use google instead of crapping in this thread with starter pack questions for the world's biggest search engine

Yeah @hippy !

UTFS

https://www.lfgss.com/conversations/313264/

Ha, almost as ridiculous looking as the geometron

The unsubscribe button is over there --->

Oh wow. I usually have a pretty good memory for forum bullshit but I don't remembr that one at all!

Hard no. I want something available to buy and test and ride and break and replace in short periods of time.