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

I get why exciting downhill makes a good video in a way that some bod crawling up a mountain for 3 hours doesn't, and neither does seeing some bloke do 10 miles of broadly flat singletrack.

But to what extent is the culture of videos influencing riding and if so is it detracting from the fact that just getting on your bike and riding cross country is brilliant fun? Much prefer up and down, single-track, mud and rideable (small) rocks to boring flat fire-roads, but it is all good. More chllenging stuff? Yes, it interests me and I should pursue it, but I'm not that bothered. Is there a risk that MTB will increasingly be seen as an extreme sport (thus putting off ordinary riders from just riding their bikes off road where they can be safer than on road)?

Safer on road? What, with cars?

That bike park looks so fun

Big bouncy Kona for sale!

http://www.lfgss.com/thread109374.html

Wish I had a use for a bouncy bike! I've just bought gridds' cotic soul, really looking forward to building it up, hoping it feels more chuckable than the kinesis I have, which is a great long ride bike but not as much fun as I'd like...

The Soul is a great fun bike! Big bouncy bikes just make you go too fast and really hurt yourself*

*salesperson of the year

I'd have a bouncy bike if I lived in Canada or the alps... Tough but lightish hardtail makes much more sense where I am! How the hell DJ has justified a fatty I don't know...

Some Pikes would be sweet on that Soul... Oh, wait, luckily I'm selling some ;)

Girlfriend offered me a fatbike for my birthday tomorrow.

She rides hers on boggy dog walks and once beaches open up to dogs again we shall go for dune rides. She also has friends who live in the alps, so possible winter rides too.

Some Pikes would be sweet on that Soul... Oh, wait, luckily I'm selling some ;)

Planning on moving the build from this

Not sure I need pikes...

Cotic will be rad to the max with that build TM

Yeah that build will make an awesome bike TM.

Frame is on it's way!

Yeah can't wait, going to be mega (:

Absolutely love my Soul - use it more than other higher spec mtb. Needs carbon post for comfort.

Na, I'd say the Soul is plenty comfy enough without carbon post.

Prep for a ride tomorrow early doors before it get too hot.. St. Albans..
Stag-do part deux

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St Alban's, Victoria, presumably.

I don't know why iPad does this.. But no.. Hertfordshire hills

I'm riding Herts tomorrow, if you see a skinny guy on a DMR with a group of fatties then DAS me, have a good ride man

I don't know why iPad does this..

You were holding it upside down. The image file is written in the orientation of the imaging sensor, it should also write orientation in the image meta-data so that display devices/applications can show the image in the correct orientation. This does sometimes work, I get pictures from my brother's iPhone which are upside down in email display (dumb application) but the right way up in image manipulation program (smarter application)

http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/rawfile/2013/07/Species_025.jpg

^ nice mid week Canadian cross country jaunt?

Anyone got a cheap, small (15-16") disc frame knocking about? Even a basic Carrera type thing would be fine!

Cheers

I've got a specialized P1 jump frame knocking about.

Anyone got a cheap, small (15-16") disc frame knocking about? Even a basic Carrera type thing would be fine!

Cheers

I'm going to strip down my Cannondale F5 later. It's 16", discs, headset for tapered steerer.

What a day, one of the most pain in the arse builds I've done... First up couldn't get the headset in (even with press, albeit it shitty ebay one) luckily LBS sorted it for me.

Then when it came to removing the stem, both (non-original) steerer bolts rounded off.

Had to drill them out, which I've never done before... luckily worked and I had a spare stem to hand I could use.

Then the front mech took an age as I couldn't figure out how to cable it, in the end, it was the blatantly obvious and simple route, not around the swingy bit....

Finished up, adjusted the brakes, trued the front disc... Had a blast along the street, what can I say? Feels great! Can't wait to ride the Dale's tomorrow.