Any Mountain Bikers on Here?

[AudiTech]

Last weekends ride

Wifey steamrolling some rocks.

Yesterday's ride...

After the first climb

Chunky

If you're interested the GPS data from the ride, we started at the Valmont Bike park, up the Boulder Creek Trail, Chapman up to summit of Flagstaff Mountain, down Chapman, up Boulder Canyon, up the Betasso Link Trail, around the Benjamin Loop, the connector, and Canyon Loop, down Betasso Link trail, down Boulder Canyon, down Boulder Creek Trail back to the car. 32 miles with about 5000 feet of elevation gain. Boulder Creek, Boulder Canyon, Chapman up Flagstaff, and Betasso by RyanTheVWTech at Garmin Connect - Details

 

[mikey's2010SR5]

Getting back on the beast after a shoulder injury. In the down time she got some red Spanks and a Fox Float 36. Even more of a beast now.

 

[1engineer]

Nice bike Mike!

 

[ScoMey]

Back on a hard tail ('13 Trek Stache 8) after 7 years on a full suspension bike...

 

[MONTYMTB]

Back on a hard tail ('13 Trek Stache 8) after 7 years on a full suspension bike...

Every single person I know that has one of these raves about how much they like it. My LBS had a killer deal on some demo models, but I just missed one in my size.

 

[CoolMax]

goddam CO people showing off again...:bowl:

 

[CoolMax]

I've got a "hardtail" Gary Fisher...gonna upgrade one of these days.:wave:

 

[mikey's2010SR5]

Nice bike Mike!

Thanks. MTBing is one of my (expensive) passions. The cyclocross bike should be coming soon for training. Then probably going to pick up another DH bike. It's a sickness.

 

[hikenbike]

Great pics and nice bikes on here. I just graduated from riding rail trails a couple of weeks ago and rode a place called 6 mile reservoir here in central NJ a couple of times since. Really growing to love true mountain biking and can easily see how you can get very excited very quickly. ITS CRAZY FUN!! I ride an entry level Giant Revel 0 29er and it's great but when going through all those trees with little room it starts to feel big. Was thinking of picking up a nice used full suspension or better hard tail but in the 26 or 27.5 size. Something like a mint upgraded '13 Giant Yukon xc is one I saw on Craigslist last week for about $500 (Msrp $900). Plus it gives me another bike for when one of my sons wants to come.

Any thoughts or advise on this?

 

[KidVermicious]

Last weekends ride

Fantastic, all of it. Thanks for the pics.

 

[AudiTech]

I just got word that my frame won't be available until January/February

 

[youngr]

New to the forum so I thought I'd get involved in the discussion. I live in Knoxville, TN. Currently riding a 2013 Santa Cruz Highball Carbon, fox fork with kashima coating. My drivetrain is a 1x10 full XTR set up and I9 wheels, built in Asheville, NC. I've got the bike weighing in right at 20.5 lbs minus waterbottles. Now that I've got my bike set up perfect I'm gonna start building on my new 2014 LTD 4Runner. I've ridden all over the U.S. and I'm always looking for an excuse to get away from Knoxville.

Id love to have that bike. I ride a Aluminum Highball and its great but I sure would love a Carbon one.

 

[AudiTech]

I got some more parts ordered for build today. I have an all black 140mm RockShox Pike RCT3 solo coming https://www.sram.com/rockshox/products/pike-rct3 and the stuff for the wheel build - WTB frequency i25 rims, DT Swiss 240 disc hubs, XD driver (for Sram 11 speed setup), black DT spokes and black ProLock aluminum nipples.

 

[AudiTech]

I did a Cyclocross race yesterday that was pretty entertaining. I was in the first race of the morning, right at the beginning of the race about 30 seconds in we're riding up a grass hill than it curves and turns while going down a grass hill. One person slide out and went down, in the grass still wet from morning dew no one could stop and that early in a race everyone is packed in pretty tight still. It was chain reaction. People started piling up. I slide kinda sideways with both wheels locked up right into the back of someone else who was just getting back up. I was hit from behind immediately and while off balance got hit again which knocked me over. The next hit after that knocked me over. I was on my stomach the ground and a dude ran into me and a dude came sliding in front wheel straight into me, my body stopped his bike and him and his bike flipped when he went over the bars. He never let go of his brakes to get his hands out to brake his fall so he came down hard. Someone else laid it down on his side and slide right past my head into that guy. It was awesome, carnage everywhere to start the race. When the race was over I had a tire mark on the back of the jersey from literally getting ran over, I had scrapes on my back from the knobbies on his tire and a huge bruise and scrape on my ribs from what I'm assuming was that guys pedal to the back. It hurt pretty good but I could not stop laughing as it all happening, my wife missed the start so none of it's on camera

You can see the tire mark on my back lol

 

[Rubberdown]

I just got into mountain biking again, just picked up a 2012 stumpjumper 26er that was sitting around at the shop by me. The trails behind my house all run along the bayou and are straight sand where the trail has gone through the vegetation. Any advice on traction in sand? I can't go strictly to a sand tire because as soon as I get through those patches I'm back on vegetation or doing a 20 foot drop over roots on dirt and then climbing back up the other side of the bayou. It's the craziest mix of terrain for an area I have seen. I am way aired down but that only helps so much as far as I can tell.

 

[AudiTech]

Wide rims with 2.3-2.4 tires at low pressure is your best bet. Without a fat bike there's no such thing as traction in dry sand.

 

[hikenbike]

Any thoughts on this bike? I'm considering it as my first FS as I look to get more into mountain biking.

http://cnj.craigslist.org/bik/4730275509.html

 

[LandCruiser]

Any thoughts on this bike? I'm considering it as my first FS as I look to get more into mountain biking.

trek mountain bike

Give him a grand.

Not a bad bike.

 

[hikenbike]

I might just do that if it fits.

Have read only great things about that model.

 

[MONTYMTB]

Any thoughts on this bike? I'm considering it as my first FS as I look to get more into mountain biking.

trek mountain bike

I had an EX9 for a couple years and loved it. Nice hubs/wheels on that one, but make sure you check condition of the fork and shock - if they need work it could get expensive.