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

the arm on the rear mech must be very long.... 42 lul

Total capacity is only 32t (the difference between 10 and 42, no provision for multiple chainrings) but the dérailleur geometry actually looks like a throw back to a time before Suntour, with no slant parallelogram, just a straight offset parallelogram like a Simplex LJ design:

not seen that b4 very intresting..the sport is going single up front!
the sport is changing so much its hard to keep up

the sport is going single up front!

Maybe, for some types of competition, probably mostly Elite XC racers on the kind of highly groomed tracks we saw at Hadleigh Farm.

great info mdc. the mind boggles @ what manufactureers will come up with next.. probably more gears on the back and even more narrow sprokets ... the single does sort of make sense in alot of ways

Wow, interesting, something new.

For those that don't like a bumpy ride :-s

*Haemorrhoid sufferers?

^ More pics.

http://www.vitalmtb.com/photos/features/New-Downhill-Bikes-at-Eurobike-2012,4249/WHAT-THE-Santa-Cruz-V10-Fat-Bike,41635/bturman,109

wow that looks like some serious fun

http://app.strava.com/rides/20462011

Ow.

Did the Swinley rides etc die a death?

Nah just been too busy recently. Should start up again soonish.

Anyway, I've got a 26" wheel, SS jump bike with rigid forks... my BMX replacement, meant for short rides in flat towns, pissing about on. Absolutely not meant for XC.

While a lot of us want the right bike for the job. Sometimes just as a reason to buy or build another one. Some of the most fun rides I've ever had have been on the most inappropriate bikes.

When I picked up my Uncles Brompton, I took it through part of Epping forest on the way back. I couldn't stop grinning.

If you're enjoying it that much, you could always stick a lower gear on for the Winter?

While a lot of us want the right bike for the job. Sometimes just as a reason to buy or build another one. Some of the most fun rides I've ever had have been on the most inappropriate bikes.

This,
I love my SS tricross so much I might keep it even though I really shouldn't.

This,
I love my SS tricross so much I might keep it because Specialized no longer supply them to the UK.

Actually, I can't see it on the US site either. I'd keep it.

yeah I don't think there was any other aluminium SSCX bikes made, and specialized stoped making them.

^ Felt used to supply the breed over here a few years ago. Not anymore though :-(

They still make it. Just not available in the UK ( as far as I know? )

I stand corrected, nice bikes!

I don't think there were many about. Do bike manufacturers think that people in the UK don't like singlespeeds?

Singlespeed cross is a niche in a niche I guess. Comparatively small target market, most of whom I'd imagine would build their own rigs rather than go with an OTP.

Yeah, keep forgetting it's all about profit, rather than fulfilling my own personal requirements ;-)

• Goes off to petition Specialized.
  

I've got a ss tricross as well and love it . Gonna do some of the Wessex league 'cross races on it , starting next weekend . Taken off road with some of the local mtb'ers and altho not as quick as them , I think I was deffo having more fun .

http://www.manxe2e.org/

That should scare a few people off.

959 finishers.

How not to land, starring me. Stayed on though. Win.

http://www.manxphotosonline.com/Isle-of-Man-End-2-End-MTB-Challenge-9th-Sept-2012/slides/2012-09-09-1058.html

Ride report

Next year?

First time at Swinley - took 11 year old son who loved it nearly as much as me. Car park hideously full but trails pretty empty.

Any body doing this?..........Im doing it on a Gazelle cyclocross bike:)
http://www.bhf.org.uk/get-involved/events/view-event.aspx?ps=1001425