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

The Inbred definitely needs a lower gear to get up some stuff. I've raised the bars 5mm but I've only got another 5mm on the steerer and there's still a pretty big saddle to bar drop. Fine on the road, maybe not so great off.

So maybe I should stick with the risers? Otherwise I'll be (what I consider with no real expertise) quite far forward/low at the front.

Maybe I should just fit aerobars like all my other bikes and be done with it?

Useful article on bar width 1) https://m.pinkbike.com/news/finding-your-sweet-spot-handlebar-width.html

Useful article on bar width 2)
https://www.cotic.co.uk/news/2020/mtb-bar-height-width-2020

Quite tempted to do some sort of variation on this tomorrow:

https://www.strava.com/activities/3682751276

But without the run in and run out again, maybe somewhere between Sutton Abinger and Holmbury St Mary?

Start at Coldharbour and do more actual trails?

I'll be doing something similar on Sunday

Or start at Holmbury, ride up to the cricket pitch (cos the track up from the village hall is a shit fest) and have time to do even more Peaslake trails. Finish with Crack Pipe, back up to Yoghurt Pots and then Telegraphs for some OG Surrey Hills goodness.

On one Mary bars? They came with my lockdown inbred and I quite like them.. A sort of half way house between crummy roadie drop bars and gnar shred mtb bars.

edit to add.. Mine have Pink Ourys!

"wide bars looked cool"

Fuck, did I miss a trend. I still think they look stupid. But I'm not buying them for looks, I want leverage, motherfuckers. ;)

His formula has me on 790-800mm bars.

Did he say you needed wrist crumbling 35mm dia bars as well?

I think its all bollocks tbh. I am quite happy with my 710 - 740mm bars. Mountain bikes have totally hooked the continuous next big thing need over the last 10 years.

I can get 780mm bars (20cm wider than I have) for £25 so I reckon it's worth a try. If they suck, they'll go on ebay/here. If I like them, I'll buy the £300 Thomson bars.

Good plan. Obvs wider the bars the lower your hands are. I have a Ti 29er Inbred (pics on my build thread, with pics of my Stanton) and the silly short headtube means a giraffe spacer stack. Going to try 60mm risers next time build it.

What's the best way to fit a dropper to a bike that was made before droppers were a thing? Is it just a case of running a cable to the bars from the seat clamp area or do people stick non-remote posts on bikes like this or something? Reaching between your legs on a sudden downhill seems like a bad idea :)

Is there likely to be parking at Holmbury?

https://www.wiggle.co.uk/brand-x-ascend-ii-dropper-seatpost-1?lang=en&curr=GBP&dest=1&sku=101876741&kpid=101876741&utm_source=google&utm_term=&utm_campaign=Shopping+-+All+Products&utm_medium=base&gclid=CjwKCAiA1eKBBhBZEiwAX3gqlwDU8qHuw_2O4wvdPKZ4CptoiZVbnp8cmuaMrGGef9eFkaYy4eKupRoCiVQQAvD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds

sigh That costs more than the bike.

1x or 2x clamp for a SS? I presume it's just a different remote clamp design to clear the FD shift lever?

giraffe spacer stack

You and @pit are hoarding all the spacers aren't you!

Probs want one that is perpendicular to the bars for a FD. Or just pop the FD in the bin.

KS Dropzone - no cables

https://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/lever-operated-dropper-post-kind-shock-dropzone/

for a SS

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I've sent my fork over to rsf to fit a longer steerer tube so I can start putting spacers under the head tube.

The designs for 2X systems put the lever in an awkward place (for me, anyway), I’d want the dropper remote to be where the FD lever would be, if possible.

I recently changed from the Rockshox 2X placement to their “stealth” setup (which means 1X, something I wish I’d known when asked if I wanted it when specifying the bike).

Yeah in the village opposite the garage should be fine

Reaching between your legs on a sudden downhill seems like a bad idea :)

AKA a michael jackson

That looks just like me now... after the saddle has tried to insert itself in my arse yet again.

Let's be honest, with the gear I have on it now, I can't even get up the hills I might use a dropper to descend so until my 21T gets here and fitted a dropper is a lux. I should order the Stanton..

You and @pit are hoarding all the spacers aren't you!

I blame that bloke from On-One who told us in 2006 to size down on 29ers for chuckability, these days I just buy a frame that fits, although HT length is the first dimension I look at (thanksbyeSurly). And then add all the spacers.

I cant fathom how I rode my Inbred with no headset spacers BITD #oldmancsb

What's the best way to fit a dropper to a bike that was made before droppers were a thing?

sell the bike