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

Forgive the Facebook link, but a 61yo mtb’er missing in Gloucestershire
https://www.facebook.com/680859465/posts/10161532009109466/?d=n

Sounds like they’re not worried about his mental health, more if he’s crashed and the such. He often goes on long rides around GL11

@dancing james

That doesn’t sound great. Fingers crossed he turns up.

Agreed...

Oops.. to late

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Is the one you shared the crazy light one?

8.8kg I think so not bad. I liked the look rather than the weight. I love yours too, they’re great looking bikes.

Any news on the missing fella? The comments seem to have gone on Facebook which might not be good. Fingers crossed

boat anchor seatpost !

ah so badgers were Gravel Specific® ?

Flat bar 2"+ gearbox Gravel Specific®

Has anyone seen the white Onza Porcupines for sale anywhere?

What are my best options for xc/ marathon/ easy trail bike in full sus? Anyone recommend anything or say absolutely no to anything?
Relatively budget end of scale, would like 100mm or 120mm max. Must be through axle, tubeless ready, not bothered about dropper, and have some sort of lockout.

So far seems like
Trek- look lovely, no stock currently in XL
Santa cruz- v pricey
Specialised- pricey but less so
KTM- lot of local guys have these
Canyon- reasonable price, rubbish finance deals

Fallen out with Scott a bit

Can’t see that any of the budget brands really do a value xc type model?

Can’t see that any of the budget brands really do a value xc type model?

I was impressed by this but no full sus: https://alpkit.com/collections/sonder-dial-xc-bike

And @BareNecessities will soon tell you that a full sus XC bike is called 'downcountry'

They honestly look fucking ghastly on a build. Just too much white. I can't, in good faith, embed this image so click at your own risk.

https://scontent-lcy1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.6435-9/121824293_10157788407488087_4336831704977497726_n.jpg?_nc_cat=103&ccb=1-3&_nc_sid=b9115d&_nc_ohc=aAmz9VBmB14AX9OeRla&tn=pHaCul1wKDdrBrxD&_nc_ht=scontent-lcy1-1.xx&oh=dc5b1a8fb203b3b93acf35a6b886be1e&oe=60FDC31C

I can't comment on my full sus XC bike until @PhilDAS has finished building it

I thought you said it was a gravel bike

They honestly look fucking ghastly on a build. Just too much white.

Oh I accept that, I just want to do it for nostalgia reasons.

What are my best options for xc/ marathon/ easy trail bike in full sus?

Maybe Transition?

Ah i though you meant porcipaws

Get an Ripley AF or carbon and lower the travel on the fork to 120mm. I love mine and it's much better than any of the XC "TR" bikes I've tried.

And he's ^ tried a a lot

They look nice but maybe more bike than I need. Looking on the website all the images are people doing stuff I don’t do- wearing pads, jumping, riding off big rocks etc.
Might be too much for me?

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Would a hardtail not be suitable then? Might get a better spec for the money

I do none of these things either. I mostly ride gravel on mine.
https://www.lfgss.com/comments/16101415/
120mm front, 100mm back with full lockout.

Before I bought it I tried Spur, Oiz TR, Top Fuel, and Lux. All had the same issues: flexed AF, extremely low stack, and stupid shallow seat tube angles (seat behind rear axle at full extension in size XL). I find that the more traditional XCish bikes don't scale up very well across sizes.

I wonder if it’s a full sus issue, my hardtail is xl and as traditional as they come and the seat is nowhere near over the axle.
Phil is probably right, I should just improve this so it has what I want

Not all XL hard tails have a slack seat tube angle.

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Long legs, actual shallow seat angle, and sag will do that. Didn't have that problem on a hardtail either.
What do you ride right now?

Surely you'll settle on a Nicolai with custom geo?