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#121 ·
speedygz said:
I like simple, and light. If I wanted miles of suspension, motors and batteries and electronics, I'd ride one of my motorcycles. So hardtails are where it's at for me.
I've caved and run hydraulic disc brakes, they're wildly effective and pretty much maintenance free, as well as a suspension fork, but that's as far as it goes. No dropper. I've even warmed to 1x drivetrains recently. Keep it pure and simple.
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What are you riding? You brits have an enviable selection of locally welded steel hardtails.
 
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#122 ·
mk.ultra said:
What are you riding? You brits have an enviable selection of locally welded steel hardtails.
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Currently residing in Australia. Not a great selection of frames to choose from here.
I'm currently riding an aluminium frame Ragley mmmBop, and an earlier model Vitus Sentier frame build. Both 27.5's. Love 'em. The mmmBop would have to be my favourite bike ever.
 
#124 ·
ilmfat said:
Much as I clown on...

....everything...

...Ebikes, if it gets someone out riding, and they don't splat themselves, I'm all for it.

When they want me to call their ebike a real bike, I get trolly.

Pretty much the extent of my policy.
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Did a long climb and an ebike caught me at the top and said “whoa what a climb, can’t believe we made it”. He was in his twenties, In my head I was like STFU.
 
#125 ·
MMS said:
You do you and love every minute of it. Will I ride the gnarliest trails on earth on a hardtail? Not likely, but some do. Torture? Not even close. I enjoy “feeling” the trail, I enjoy that it’s not as easy, I enjoy not sitting on a 2 wheeled sofa. I ride at 58 to feel like I’m 12. I enjoy getting beat up a little…done enough numbing.
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This, I can ride DH on my HT faster than most with their FS. It is about being smooth and body English. You have ride a HT for a long time to develop the fitness for those runs.
 
#126 ·
I've owned nothing but hardtails in my 32 years of mountain biking. I bought my first hardtail in 1993 at my local Meijer store the Huffy Sledgehammer. It was a gateway bike for me because I upgraded to a real trail hardtail an Ironhorse. I stayed on the cheaper side of bikes until I started making more money. My pride hardtail was a Giant XTC carbon frame MTB. I have since sold it and I alm ready to get a 2025 Trek Marlin 7 Gen3. IN all I have owned around 8 hardtails since 1993 ( and many hybrid/road bikes). Hardtails enable me to do the type of lifestyle I enjoy: trips around town, rail trail and road riding, gravel riding, and rides in the woods on dirt trails. Its a one bike does all for me.
 
#128 ·
SpinningLizard said:
Did a long climb and an ebike caught me at the top and said “whoa what a climb, can’t believe we made it”. He was in his twenties, In my head I was like STFU.
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One of my favorite local climbs is ~520 ft of vertical in 1.25 miles. Fairly smooth dirt, but lots of little twists, turns, and the occasional pile of rocks. Every time I climb it, the people walking the trail think I'm crazy.

I've yet to see any E-bikers on it...

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Anyways, I have a wife and a houseful of kids, so I stick with the "one bike capable of most things" philosophy. For me, that's a hardtail.

Also, bikepacking... frame space is nice.
 
#130 ·
They changed the name. They're not hard tails anymore, they're gravel bikes.


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ilmfat said:
What do you need? I'm culling my parts pile.
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Well, I found out today that I’m not getting my HT back… :ROFLMAO:

Talked to my daughter about her possibly swapping to the BSB.

I was shot down, quick.

She likes the RS-291 frame and isn’t interested in giving it back.

Fair enough.

Looks like the StEvo lives to fight another day.
 
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