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

Mountain bike fit

no such thing, buy a large

Are you planning to get a mountain bike now?

never

What colour or type of lenses do people use on a day like this? I went out at 8am and couldn’t see a bloody thing! Tunnels, under trees- too dark. Riding into the sun under trees was like having a strobe light flashed in my face. Briefly my dark lenses were ok on the tops.

I just wear clear now to keep the bugs out. I found photochromic ok but my mtb helmet has a visor which helps block most of the direct glare and i tend to look down the trail rather than at the sun. Anything too dark and you start losing stuff in the shadows. I had a really bad crash because of that.

Mirrored dark lenses. No tunnels round here though - they'd just fill up with water - and precious few trees either.

Yeh I think I agree with that. A lot of the downhill or tech trails here are under trees or partly so. I nearly had a big off today for the same reason as you, couldn’t see the trail had washed out so there was a big drop into loose rock on a corner

Recommend me a otp mtb for my 2m tall brother who wants to pootle around the local trails and has zero interest in bike fettling. Budget £1-1.5k. He’s in France.

. He’s in France.

Point him at any local Decathlon with stock?

Yeah he sent me a few available locally, which featured square taper BBs and 100/135mm qr hubs. Feels like he could do better/get standards that’ll last longer, for that amount of money.

Without checking had assumed £1.5k might get him a van Rysel.

van rysel seems to be road bikes and clothing. But I've found a decent spec XC bike with modern hub standards etc that I've recommended now:

https://www.decathlon.fr/p/velo-vtt-semi-rigide-rockrider-xc-120-29-sram-nx-eagle/_/R-p-330101?mc=8616936

Was riding the trails between westcott and ranmore common today and one of the routes which komoot said was ridable and am pretty sure is a bridleway/ byway had a sign that said "access to national trust vehicles etc only (covid-19 regulations)". I took a detour which involved hike a bike, stinging nettles, and swearing. I doubt the NT put the sign up, and can't help but be sceptical as to the existence of these "covid-19 regulations". Has anyone seen this?

Anyone interested in a Large beater 29er frameset?
Stripping my under used MTB for parts to build my cargo bike so I'll have the frame and forks spare, dropper too

Only really got a crap picture of it but it's an Octane One Prone size L frame and Manitou something or other 140mm fork. Rockshox Reverb external routed dropper.

£180 quid maybe?
Frame was 139, fork was 150, dropper was 90

These frames are brillinat, someone should snap that up! GLWS

May also have a few other bits but not a lot
Renthal fat bar and duo stem, Sram Level TL brakes, the Ardent tyres, Hope front wheel, Fabric Cell saddle

I'll take both Ardents, thanks

Sweet, I'll be collecting the bike from my Parent's this weekend.
I think they're in pretty sweet condition having only been used on a couple handful of rides and never punctured but I'll know more when I see them

Ardents

The original badger tyre

photos pls

Unsure of where to ask this but this is a regular hydraulic reverb hose, right? Not the connectamajig thing? Probably need a longer hose so want to know what to order. 2020 reverb I think.

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ah so badgers were Gravel Specific® ?

Too far, sir. Too far

Glad to see you found something recommendable.

I need to stay off weight weenies. That place is full of bad ideas

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