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Just found all these videos referenced. been mountain biking for off an on for 20 years with a few peaks and valleys in my skill/fitness over the years. i had been hearing SO MUCH at races lately people say, 'i just want to have fun and not crash'. this kinda bummed me out. everyones coming from far and wide to this big social event, and the racers are all stressed? i have been trying to think of other events and social things we can do with MTB that are more lighthearted. the consequences with golf are more strokes... fishing is going home with no fish... MTB has much more serious consequences, but this high risk is what puts us into the 'flow state'. there might really be something to the term 'adrenaline junkie'. maybe we are kind of addicted to the feeling of whizzing by that tree that could have just killed us...
this has been done to death but i love gravel bikes. to me, road bikes feel twitchy and flat-prone, while mountain bikes don't come alive unless you're on singletrack. a gravel bike with semi-slicks is the only bike that can comfortably go from a fast road to a slow trail, and if i want to do some trail riding without driving to the trailhead, it's really no contest. mixed-surface.
I ride a road racing bike (not racing it, just like to go fast); 07-08 Giant OCR-C3. Definitely for beginners I would always suggest flat pedals. You will likely gas out and want to get off your bike sometimes on longer rides. Having regular shoes that are comfortable for both walking and riding, and you don't have to fiddle with makes life way easier. Even as a cyclist who has made 1,000+ mile bikepacking rides, I use flat pedals. Also, in terms of fitness, flat can be a better choice since you can adjust the position of your feet on the pedals in order to engage different muscle groups; this may also help with endurance, since you can spread the muscle fatigue around a bit with practice. I would say flat peddles for general riding and clipless for actual racing or training for racing; but that's just one man's opinion.
Dude, this video is perfect for my situation. Wish I'd have seen this a year ago but I've followed most except always staying behind; we mix it up a bit. Might stay behind always going forward after your warnings. Can't wait to checkout more of your stuff. Very inspiring at the end there!
most businesses ate downsizing right now, I work in medical supplies, I deal in everything from CT scanners, x-ray machines all the way through the catheters and diapers. The board decided to shut down our Minnesota and Jacksonville location. Things are about to get rough in the economy.
Yeah I found that jamming a washer in between the pull down mechanism and the big bolt that holds it together, actually gets rid of a lot of the sway movement. There's still play forward and back, but none horizontally.
The problem with the PinkBike idiots is that racers have nothing to do with me. I'm a 52 year old with an 11 year old and 6 year old son. I've been riding a bike to work for a few years now. As my sons get older, biking is a hobby/sport that we can enjoy together (along with soccer and basketball). I want to get a mountain bike for myself and my older son and get out on some trails. Channels like this, Berm Peak, Loam Ranger, and others help me learn basics, equipment, first person trail views, and other aspects of biking that "racers" and "professionals" will never cover. I'm never going to spend thousands of dollars on a bike. My mountain bike is an upgraded Cannondale Trail 8 (bottle cages, better saddle, soon to upgrade the front forks) so I don't think the PinkBike guys are going to have anything to say to me. I'm not trying to impress anyone, I'm trying to have fun with my boys. If that means I'm not a "real mountain biker", then so be it. I'll be enjoying my time with my boys in the Florida sun. Berm Peak, Loam Ranger, and others have gotten me interested in riding the Overseas Highway over the Florida Keys, the Florida Coast to Coast trail, and even mountain biking in the Arkansas hills near my family farm. Have fun gatekeeping, I'll be enjoying my time on bikes with my boys. My older son is thinking about putting some of our videos of our learning to bike on RU-vid, along with his sailing adventures. Biking is supposed to be fun. People like that miss the point. The reason that cycling breeds the "elitist attitude" is cost. There's no other regular sport that separates the haves and have nots like cycling. I have a $600 bike. There are dudes with bikes that cost 20 times that. If you don't have a $5000 bike, you're scum.
Great video. One thing I always carry is a 4" trauma bandage. They are small, light and vacuum sealed. Only about $6 and can be worth their weight in gold.
The send it attitude. All these videos of riders sending it big makes people think that this is what mountain biking is all about. Go big or go home. So if you're not a shredder with steeze then you're nobody and you're just not cool. I think this elitist mentality is in most extreme sports but specially in those that you have to suffer a little bit for "greatness". Hours on the bike sweating blood automatically makes you better than a beginner or any casual rider. This message is unknowingly pushed onto people specially by social media but also the industry. Best example of this is when you see a beginner with a 10k bike.
Forty years ago I became a life member of League of American Wheelman (LAW) because it was the champion for road cyclists. LAW’s goal was to keep cyclists on our ROADs. More than a century ago, the LAW was at the forefront in promoting better roads, long before the ubiquity of the automobile. Since then the LAW has grown woke. It renamed itself the League of American Bicyclists (LAB) and promoted bike lanes and bike trails, a complete anathema to its original goal of road sharing. Today it is no longer relevant to me and other cyclists; I don’t even look at their mail to me. The fad of gravel riding will soon fade, perhaps more slowly than the mercurial fat tire bikes, but fade it will.
I go out of my way to keep my bike from getting damaged; can’t think of anything I would rather not do than fix my bike. It’s there to keep me away from anything that resembles work. Would much rather have a mechanic work on it so my bike always exists as a source of enjoyment.
There's just too many options so there is not much economy of scale. It's ridiculous that for the same price as an upper-mid range bike I can buy an motorcycle that is built to a much higher standard.
Body pls just stop there is so many wrong things you said. bikes don't depreciate that much. there go up in price. .and people don't get a bike every year .there keep them for like 5 years . they don't jump up in technology that much. maybe every three to four years.
