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

much frustration pedalling my 160mm travel, 15 kilo bike up endless bridleways.

Understandable. Being overbiked can make for a dull ride.

Much late, still reply.

I've been riding wide lightnings like an idiot on my Solaris for 2 years, starting out with putting a nice fat dent in rear rim (too low pressure) and they've been tubeless and trouble free so far.

Recommendz!

Have figured I need at least a lightweight XC biek, an all mountain biek and a downhill rig.

Plus a van.>

Naah, an XC rig, a short travel FS beater, a long travel enduro rig, and a BB scraping downhill rig. And a super fatty IF it snows. And a truck.

Seriously though. Finally coming to the conclusion my Scott is pretty much overkill no matter how much I pretend its not.

Sub-10kg rigid bikes for the win.

Nothing else is going to make Norfolk exciting...

This was great fun today

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Nope

Did the skyline / blade route. Good fun seeing the blades for the wind farm being winched up the hill.

Lots of pedalling tho

Rode the Masts, was fucking good fun. Broke the rim on my rear wheel on the last run of the day.

Other than Revolution Bike Park the Masts is the best riding I've done so far. Got shown the trails by someone who knows them very well. Bonus of being given a lift back to the train station.

Thinking of rebuilding my wheels with all new rims. Must be 26" [edit], tubeless ready, asymmetric ideally, 32 hole, 28 - 30mm wide externally. Any suggestions?

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Must be tubeless ready, asymmetric ideally, 32 hole, 28 - 30mm wide externally. Any suggestions?

The WTB Asym look quite interesting. I was considering building up some of the 35s, for a 27.5+ experiment.

WTB Asym

Edit - You're on those newfangled 26" wheels though, aren't you?

Edit - You're on those newfangled 26" wheels though, aren't you?

Being an awkward retrogrouch, yarp.

That route is a lot of pedalling, I agree.

Salsa horsethief - small alloy frame on bike24.

https://www.bike24.com/p2112859.html

The spearfish shorter travel twin has great suspension. Only hassle is 51mm offset forks

Well, I did say at least.

If money was no object it would be a truck, a camper van, a steel 26" klunker, a titanium 650B lightweight 120mm hardtail, a rigid SS 29+ carbon fiber biek with Gates belt drive, 130mm aggressive trail full sus akin to the Whyte T130S, a 150/160mm travel gravity orientated full sus like the Whyte G160 or Nomad for non-uplift downhill days at places like Rheola and the Masts, a 170mm/180mm travel aggressive all-mountain biek liek the Nicolai Geometron for Alps travel and uplift assisted bike park days, and a YT Tues and a Polygon Colossus for uplift assisted downhill days.

And a dirt jump biek (though I can't jump for toffee)...

And a BMX...

And..

a rigid SS 29+ carbon fiber biek with Gates belt drive

You think you know someone...

Wait till I get the all-mountain unicycle.

He'd just use it to get milk from the shops

I'd use the downhill biek for that.

Not the AM uni-cycle?

I am disappoint etc

Talking of unicycles
https://www.facebook.com/bikepackingcom/posts/1180629851980292

A good ride, ruined

I wound up buying them a couple of weeks ago, now just waiting for my collarbone to heal before trying them out...not too sure about the rim stickers though

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Picking up the new full squish on Saturday, so I will end up with a few components to sell. Proper sales thread to follow but I thought I'd give a heads up here about:

Thomson 27.2 dropper post, 125mm travel. Bought towards the end of summer last year so very little use - £200
Chris King Threadfit MTB BB, 68/73mm, red, same conditions as the above - £80

I will take pictures as soon as I take them off the bike and clean them. PM me if interested.

^ dropper seatpost sold, bb still available

This escalated quickly