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

Anyone who’s not very Christmassy in the north might want to know Farmer Johns bike park is open. Pay at the shop or farm house, no need to
Book.

Annoyingly my son’s chain kept coming off today on his hardtail, 1x box group set with a bash guard on front so shouldn’t really ever come off. I can only think the freewheel is knackered so it’s not freewheeling properly and that’s pulling the chain Off?
It’s never done it before but he has ridden it a lot and in some awful weather recently

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This is for sale, but I don’t know what it would cost to post it to the UK- it’s in Singapore.

Half the cost of the same configuration on the Raaw website.

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I’ll leave the crankset on there- do bear in mind that I refitted the non drive side crank trailside by using a rock as a hammer though.

Sounds like a sticky freehub. Or the clutch is doing weird stuff and making the chain jump with intermittent tension.

What does the MTB thread think this weighs in at?

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16 kg

Very close

what are the child-friendly bike parks within distance of day trips from the east side of Lake Annecy (Talloires)?

Morzine appears to be an hour and forty minutes in the car?

Yeah - a bit far.

Anyone been to La Clusaz?

How much is it and why did you ask?

Unless you're 65kg and racing XC, who cares?

16.5kg before I put the chain on, and I thought people might be interested- you can see from the components that I have chosen performance over weight saving, and it’s an alloy frame not carbon (which again is deliberate of course).

Returning to my roots. Comparison is between Santa Cruz reserve 30 wheels with Maxxis DD tyres, Rimpact inserts, and 220/203mm rotors vs Light bicycle rims, DT Swiss 240S hubs and 203/180mm rotors with Michelin Wild Enduro tyres.

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Rear 3.03 plays 2.95
Front 2.74 plays 2.58

It’s pretty much equal if you were to have the same rotors and hubs, which means that Maxxis DD + inserts are roughly the same as Michelin WE on their own. But the latter are a lot less faff to put on, of course.

DH22 on a DTSwiss FR1500 is 3.05 rear - smaller cassette of course, but that’s a surprise.

Adding the DH wheels:
Rear 3.05
Front 2.89

If the rims are roughly equivalent that is

Nothing ever weighs what I expect it to weigh with MTB; my G16 weighs the same with coil forks, DH casings, and no carbon other than rims. It's lighter than a mates two sizes smaller carbon Giga with air fork and shock, no idea how

Yalla: 17.5
Madonna: 16.75
Jibb: 16.75

I hadn’t expected the trail bike and the enduro bike to weigh the same- that’s an XL Madonna (and Yalla) and an L Jibb.

DH22 on a DTSwiss FR1500 weighs the same as the (carbon) Santa Cruz wheel with Maxxis DHR II DD and a Rimpact insert. Rotor is the same but smaller cassette on the DH wheel. Still- I had expected a DH wheel to be lighter than an Enduro wheel.