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

I had these hubs on my CAAD12 disc, hence the combination of standards.

Cheers Al, yeah he does pretty well on it. Climbed multiple HC and Cat 1 climbs in the alps and descends like the wind. Not bad with one functioning arm

me and my eldest (different son) took the big bikes and headed over to Leith Hill this morning.

It was cold, dark, wet & muddy but we had a great time

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All of those pics, I just see me explaining to doctors "no that's an old break, THIS is the new break"

have to admit I felt the same today.

I used to ride all this stuff on my hardtail but that was back circa 2012 to 2016. Had a bad break to my wrist in Morzine in 2018 and have stuck to mainly road and gravel trails since then.

But my boy has been riding Peaslake trails a lot with his best mate and got a bit bored with doing the same thing every week so I offered to show them the Leith Hill side. They were flying but I was a bit more cautious and glad I was on the full susser.

Which also reminds me, if you have kids, get them cycling. It's brilliant fun riding with them.

Here's my boy 15 years to the day out on Holmbury Hill with me on 2nd January 2006 when he was 14

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and here he is 15 years later aged 29

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Cool man. But there's a UN agreement controlling my breeding. There can be no hippy offspring. At least, not on this planet.

I'll pm you about the onsie

@MTB-Idle great pictures thanks for sharing, absolutely agree about the kids stuff, getting them into cycling, spending time together.
It was a joy to see my step daughter (now ex) embrace track cycling at HHV from a young age despite the crashes and set backs of adolescence, but I know that she has an interest there still :)

I had some Fox vans in 2006 as well. Terrifies me that that was 15 years ago...

However, is that an e-bike!?

yeah it is, it's my boys, not mine. Millenialls don't seem to have such an issue with them as boomers.

Here's his edit. I was obviously too slow as he cut me (white lid) out of most of it but it gives an accurate depiction of yesterday's ride

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07UBbXurkHw

Looks like a good ride - a lot of trails covered given the conditions. Redlands is my favourite spot on the Surrey hills from the little I've explored.

BTW I'm a millennial and have an issue with e-MTBs, but that's another story!

Now that the brexit door has been shut, my days of trawling uk ebay for a used orange p7 or cotic seem to be over. Irritatingly this has coincided with a moderately sizeable Christmas bonus landing in my account. I’m therefore eyeing up a pole taival, nørdest bardinho, or possibly a nørdest britango. Was also considering copying the p7 geo and getting Marino to build one but >10 weeks queue so nah.

Basically I’d probably get the bardinho if they offered it in anything other than sweet baby blue as it’s way cheaper than the taival. Could get it powder coated I suppose.

No idea what point I’m trying to make here.

A steel Pole just seems wrong

the pole, for sure. so sick.

and I'm a boomer and I don't have an issue with them :) #stereotypesareshit

I endorse this message. Was out with my 15 yo at Peaslake on NYE. Was excellent. (Apart from my lack of skills and now painful knee).

yeah, time was I used to kick his butt and now it's the other way around :(

Readers Wives work-in-progress shot.

Missing brakes, chain and gear cable.
Waiting on delivery of 2 x +20mm pm-pm mounts for the brakes (Shimano XR 4 pots) and 2m of gear cable housing so I can string up the SRAM NX Eagle 12 speed setup.

Slack monstrous bike is slack (and large)

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Dibs

nice bike. Garage door handle is confusing me

Not my garage, but I think it rolls up, rather than up and over.

yeah, I meant the positioning and colour of it versus the saddle/stem. It looks like some strange stem-mounted accessory or double level saddle similar to Canyon's double-decker bars