Multiple bikes is fine as long as they’re for different disciplines, I have a couple of AM MTB’s but only ever ride the newest and best one, why...because it’s the newest and best!
I currently have 3 bikes but only ever use 1 of them, but there will come a time when your main bike needs a repair, thats when your spare bike comes in, other than that, as long as each additional bike serves a purpose and you have the space for them then no...you can never have enough bikes :)
Woohoo thanks for answering my question! I perhaps should have mentioned that I do actually have about 9 bikes (but of those, 2 need frame repairs and 1 is a road bike) ... I have one full-sus and the rest are all hardtails! They're also all 26ers (apart from the road bike, obviously) I think I need a bigger bike shed though ... will have to send some photos in to Doddy for his Bike Cave feature! ;)
Yes you can have too many bikes if they have overlapping purposes. I'm selling my Commencal Meta AM V4.2 Race Eagle X01 because my new stumpjumper 29 is more suited to my riding. Putting a lyrik and a TTX22M coil on it
6:35 I myself am coming from a track & field background. Basically every muscle injury I have had in my career required me to rebuild my balance and coordination in the recovery phase and slowly rebuild my degraded shot putting technique when the recovery was finished. Our bodies are constantly changing and every injury has an impact on our balance and coordination. Some more, some less.
How many bikes do you need. First of all, a long travel E-mtb to do the most. Form a XC round to downhill lines in a bikepark. 2nd. A daily cheap bike you can park in the city and you know it will still be there when you get back. (if it does get stolen it is at least cheal to replace) 3th. A dirtjumper for playing on pumptracks and dirtparks. (A pumptrack on a long travel E-mtb is not fun) And maybe if you are into some road rides a race bike could be the forth.
Re Head injury - I took a month off riding after I broke my face and got a concussion. Once you do get back on the bike, invest in a good helmet. I honestly think that the MIPS in my Forefront is what saved my brained.
Re 700mm bars, u could just get lock on grips with one inner clamp, and on trail move them outboard a little...I believe doddy does this as standard...and then back in when finished. No need to move brakes...would be 2 finger set up when narrow, single finger when move them outboard
In response to the question about concussions and balance, I am no Doctor, but I have had a similar issue. I have had numerous concussions over the last 40 yrs of serious cycling, both road and mtn, and have noticed a bit of an issue with balance. I especially notice it when doing slow technical rides on trails where balance is key.
I've built 3 bikes....a hardtail, a short travel FS and a long travel FS. Each one serves a different purpose and this variety seems to work well for me.
My favourite presenters! (although everyone does a stella job, these guys don't go crazy on the singing) :P Stellar job by everyone here, keep it up Jess and Neil (and everyone behind the camera)!
Your best possible number of bikes depends on your skill and the type of riding you do. I'm an amateur living in a city as flat as a plate (St.Petersburg, Russia), so I can get away with my 2018 Nukeproof Scout 29er when it comes to street riding, dirtjumps, pumptracks, even our local "downhill" park. It was scary, but totally manageable. My best friend, however, while having a Scout (2016 though) as well, want to focus more on tricks, so he got himself a Dartmoor 26Player. When we are both skilled enough to venture to those MTB destinations far away, like Crimea, for example, a trail or enduro FS bike will be in order. It all comes down to what you can do yourself and need your bike to do as well.
If you have lock on grips, with the lock ring on the inside you can simply side them out a couple of cm and glue on the end cap. Hey presto an extra 50mm of bar width, and it's free!
Try a eBike Chain for an high pivot bike (if you need a longer chain) cause they have 136 and not 116 chain links mostly. Their might be a little heavier but there much more reliable too.
Answer to the water bottle + YT Capra question (Both me and my dad have one) : Zip Ties do the job when paired with some pieces of ripped inner tubes. Use a water bottle with a dust cap and it’ll work great. (Its survived UK winters since 2016...) 👍
Since I love riding single speed but at times need gears and more travel...I "need" 4 or 5 bikes. One ss road, one ss mountain, one geared road, one geared hardtail mountain, and it would be nice to have a FS option too. Right now I actually have the two ss options, the geared HT, and a FS frame. I also need more time to ride to put all those bikes to good use.
7:30 I used to work on a couple high-pivot Balfa's once upon a time and used a tandem bike chain to replace the old ones. KMC still makes chains for tandem bikes that are somewhere in the 160 link length. I've replaced a few chains on cargo bikes with those KMC ones and find they were quite robust under heavy use.
I love my Camelbak Repack "bum bag", probably the best MTB purchase after the actual bike itself :D. Carries everything I need without having that excess weight on your back an din turn probably more to the front side of you bike.
I have two MTBs...a 2x10 Orbea 27.5" full suspension and a 1x12 Motobecane 29" hardtail and I have one older 26" MTB as a loaner for friends to try. The bike I ride depends on my mood for riding. Also when one needs maintenance I still have one to ride. But I'm open for changing the numbers. Recently my wife told me if I get one more bike that she'll leave me. I sure am gonna miss having her around. LOL
I currently have a 20" BMX, a cheap single speed roadie and a basic XC hardtail. I'd like to replace the XC hardtail with an aggressive hardtail and add a full sus and another BMX (a longer 20" or a 22"). So 5 for me.
Pretty sure the cables in housing flex more than running down the frame between two metal pieces. More accurate shifting and more importantly better braking. Doesn't make sense if you have hydro brakes
Ideally I’d have: a short travel trail bike (120-140mm), an aggressive hardtail, an enduro bike (160-180mm), a bike that is somewhere in the realms of enduro and downhill like the specialized sx trail 2 and a DH bike.
Joining two chains would effectively make it stronger, regarding you use a master link e.g SRAM powerlink, as these type of links are actually the strongest part of the chain.
I know this is an old video but anyone watching and wondering about concussions, take them very seriously stay off your bike and away from any strenuous activity until you're completely healed. The risk of hitting your head again greatly increases the chances of a very major concussion if not a fatal crash. Depending on the severity and where the actual bruising took place a concussion can lead to different long lasting affects, but the main long lasting affect anyone that has had a concussion in the past will face is an increased volubility to another concussion in the future.
To the question of brakes. Magura MT7 are really powerful, just go for a floating brake rotor, for example from hope. Note that the thickness has to be 2 mm. The original Storm HC rotor is, although relatively cheap, a waste of money in my opinion and experience... Having said that, the levers from shimano feel sturdier and bleeding shimano brakes also requires a little less effort...
Doesnt matter how good Jess is now, better to see/get some vids of her progressing to better help others also learn...problem with other presenters is they are pro's, so they left the basic and intermediate skills, fears and the like behind years ago...I often find those that can 'do' forget the real how or hard to get bits as it becomes muscle memory for them....
I live near Redding, ca, the Carr fire burned through a good portion of our mountain bike trails. Do you have recommendations on what I could do to help bring out trails back into shape?
Hey guys. Im looking into upgrading my Hardtail mtb over the winter off season. What would the best budget upgrades be. Also how much would it cost me to convert from 2x10 to 1x10
If you were caught with handlebars wider than 700mm in Singapore (which has happened to a number of people) your bike would be confiscated by authorities and would have to pay $150 for transportation of the bicycle. Besides that, it would take 2 weeks for the authorities to inspect the bike for no reason. The people who stop you would take out a measuring tape just to measure the length of the bar. This has cost a lot of problems to many people in the mtb community in Singapore. Luckily I've never been caught
Bars over 750mm is one year in jail for every mm over 750, feeding pigeons will cost you $500, and jaywalking is life in prison with zero chance of early release. Just deal with the 699mm bars. There is a reason for the low crime rates, most of the law breakers have been executed.
On too many bikes. How about (in a dream world): DH rig, All Mountain Rig. XC Rig, CX rig for the commute and a road bike for cramming the faster longer miles in?
I have a cheap starter hardtail and I'm in the process of building a agressive hardtail trail bike then my next bike is going to be a full suspension enduro
Your response to the narrow bars wasnt the best. Use solid grips and lock them on at 740mm wide. Solid grips can hang off the end a bit. Set the brakes, dropper and shifter to suite. For around town slide the grips back on all the way.
(Long Story short: to me personally 4 is the perfect number of Bikes) i realised that cycling became much more fun when i objectively looked at how many bikes i REALLY need. this is a very personal thing and you need to be very real with yourself but it does change a lot. my times of hoarding bikes i dont ride anyway are over. i am working a lot and then i also do like to run like twice or thrice a week so on a good week i can get 4 rides in and on a bad week maybe just 2 or even only 1. so where is the point of owning like 7 bikes when the max amount of riding i can get in a good week is 4 times, and lets be honest i wont be out for 4+ plus hours on every of those rides either. i came to the conclusion that i "need" 4 bikes. an road bike because i do like fast road riding (its an rather budget endurance bike but still), an offroad bike (can either be an hardtail or an gravel bike) because i life at an rather forested and mountainous area, i would be a fool to not ride all this beautiful stuff, thats also the bike i am using for most of the longer 100km+ endurance rides. an ACTUAL Mountainbike, because thats the main type of biking i am interested in. and an commuter bike, anything cheap i can ride to work with, the gym or just grocery shopping, a bike that doesnt hurt your wallet if it gets stolen (i never got a bike stolen but i am way to paranoid to leave an expensive bike somewhere outside, i am currently using an elops speed 500, its an singlespeed from decathlon for that porpuse, and honestly its actually an fun bike). these bikes are all the "tools" i need for every type of riding. i dont own an winter or bad weather bike because i am either not going out or going for an run if it really rains that hard, and the mountainbike gets dirty anyway both in summer and winter. if i´d be an pure road cyclist i probably had an aero roadbike, an more relaxed endurance bike for bigger rides, an gravel or cx bike just in case i want to go offroad, that could also double as an winter or bad weather bike and again an commuter bike... so still 4... i dont say that 4 is the holy grail. i dont even say its the right opinion... it just is what works the best for me theres not a single archetype of cyclist i can think of that i could be where 4 bikes somehow isnt the magic sweetspot. lets say i would be an pure mountainbiker... DH/Enduro Bike for the fun stuff, Trail/XC or even gravel bike for the physical training, some random commuter because that will always be in my mix lol and then depending on the genre of mountainbiking you mainly do either an dirt jumper or even bmx if you are more of an trickster or just another bigger bike, maybe even something for bike parks. or lets say i´d be an triathlete (never lol) i would get an trusty commuter as always, than an try bike obviously for the races, than an normal roadbike because who wants to ride an tri bike all the dammn time and than either an gravel or xc bike if i want to go offroad. SEE its 4 again. i mean if you have only one specific type of riding that you are interested in and dont have to worry about your bike getting stolen and also dont want to reach out an single bit into the other branches of riding... than one single bike might be good enough... it might even be right for you, but for sure it isnt for me lol.
For many years I had XC bike, endurance road bike and old road bike from 80s as the no-worries-when-stolen city bike, but I managed to snap that 80s cromo frame and it's not recoverable. Then my friend had a team bike for a week and I tried it - it was Trek Top Fuel, one of the high end of the line - and I decided I need another bike. I was aiming for a trail bike but as I live in area as flat as pancake it was reasonable to choose more adequate bike. I ended up with gravel bike made by company known of their gravity bikes: NS Bikes RAG+. I have 4 bikes now, one is defunct, and am currently thinking about either upgrading my 2005 Gary Fisher Ziggurrat - the one with carbon rear triangle - with 1x and reasonable forks or just buy a trail bike. Hard choices ;)
I been looking into mountain biking quite a bit but where I live it's not that popular, so I was wondering if you could help me where I can find a nice use bike or what site that might sell them, I have learned a lot from you guys love the videos
i have 3 mountain bikes and a road bike. likely will get a modern trail bike soon also. i love my bikes, but it feels like 1 is always getting neglected.
Trouble with Singapore is that any rule is usually set up to be enforced and fines are high enough to cause you to pass out on spot. I'd question whether the additional leverage is really critical :-)
That *was* my setup, I currently have a 2018 Cannondale CAADX with 37mm tires, and a 20” BMX, and I recently sold my Norco Kokanee hardtail, but I plan to buy a Giant Trance in the near future. I’m also selling my BMX because I don’t use it much and my parents don’t like me taking up all the room in the garage
I currently have 3 bikes' Marin hawkhill 1 full sus for trail/ Marin muirwoods 29er for coummute fitness transit/ Marin gestalt 2 for gravel or road and also commute to work cause of shitty bicycle law in singapore about handlebar length ... hard for me to hit the trails lately...
If you’re like me and had 8 bikes at one point you really can’t have too many unless they’re not worth fixing; then get rid of them, but if you have a bond with your bikes by all means keep them.
If wearing a bum bag to hold a drink bottle, I’d be worried about landing on the bottle and putting my back out, not to mention the crippling embarrassment of wearing a bum bag!😄
I have 6 bikes.. only ride my Evil Following now.. was on a quest to have one bike to rule them all... impossible? yes.. but found the sweet spot with the Evil..
Hey guys, love the channel, I feel like I bought the wrong bike i used to race mx and wanted to try mountain biking so I went to my lbs and bought a scott aspect I just feel like it's too front heavy to have a great time going dh I was looking at buying a 20mm longer fork wider bars short stem dropper post and more aggressive tires, do you think it's worth doing that to this bike? Or should I be looking at buying a complete bike
#askgmbn Hi GMBN, which bike you think I should buy? The Grand Canyon AL 4.0 or the Canyon Neuron AL 5.0? the trails around me are not very technical but I can see how full suspension can be beneficial when riding them. I am fairly new to "true" mountain biking although I have experience on a hardtail. Thanks!
#askgmbn - My question is; when and where do I get the best chance of my question being seen and potentially answered? I have sent my question in a few times but it wasn't picked or maybe nobody saw it. For example; would commenting in the first 12-24 hours of the video going live be the best idea? Or maybe via the email? Or maybe even a day or so before the next 'Ask GMBN' show comes out? Anyway just curious. Thanks, Lucas!
#askgmbn I've been mountain biking for about 3 months now and loving it! I currently cannot wheelie, manual, or bunny hop. Which should I focus on learning first?
Can you ever have too many bikes? Let us know your thoughts in the comments below 👇
I don't think so:) he he! Keep up the awsome work GMBN as usual:) You guys are the best RUclips channel on RUclips:)
Multiple bikes is fine as long as they’re for different disciplines, I have a couple of AM MTB’s but only ever ride the newest and best one, why...because it’s the newest and best!
Only 1 hardtail 😬
Never have to many...3 24inch bmx cruisers...1 26 inch road bike...and a 27.5 O.M Duro..and still want more!
If you have the space have as many bikes as you can. It means you can do more types of riding with the right equipment. More fun is better!
The answer will always be the same...
JUST ONE MORE
Absolutelt mate..the more the merrier, the saying. Lol
N+1 N=number of bikes you own
You can have the N+1 formula of bikes IFHT fans will get it.
God 5 ya
Hahaha yeah
That's not a IFHT joke right?
Or basic mathematicians
Yeah but it's not a IFHT inside joke
i remember a video from GCN...
how many bikes do i need?
answer is X-1
where x is the number of bikes when ur partner would leave you
I currently have 3 bikes but only ever use 1 of them, but there will come a time when your main bike needs a repair, thats when your spare bike comes in, other than that, as long as each additional bike serves a purpose and you have the space for them then no...you can never have enough bikes :)
8 bikes 7 for everyday of the week and an extra one for backup.
Need the backup!
waf4545 I had 8 😭
14. One back up for each day.
I am 13, i started racing one year ago and i went to my first national comp here in Australia, i think you can start racing whenever you want!
4, (for where I live). A trail bike 130mm for all my trails, a DH bike for Whistler, and daily rider and a road/cycleX bike for getting it done
Dude we almost have the same exact situation Haha I have a trek fuel ex 8 2017 with mods up the ass with raceface almost everything lmaooo
a decent hardtail is all you need climbs amazingly and is lots of fun going downhill because of the extra thinking you have to do
Woohoo thanks for answering my question! I perhaps should have mentioned that I do actually have about 9 bikes (but of those, 2 need frame repairs and 1 is a road bike) ... I have one full-sus and the rest are all hardtails! They're also all 26ers (apart from the road bike, obviously)
I think I need a bigger bike shed though ... will have to send some photos in to Doddy for his Bike Cave feature! ;)
I agree with Neil, Magura MT7's are insanely powerful. And available in fluoro yellow!!!
Ian Armour well you have to pay big for the yellow
How many bikes do you really need?
Me: Yes
Neil has done a video showing how many bikes he has, but what you Jessica?
Inquiring minds want to know!
Yes you can have too many bikes if they have overlapping purposes. I'm selling my Commencal Meta AM V4.2 Race Eagle X01 because my new stumpjumper 29 is more suited to my riding. Putting a lyrik and a TTX22M coil on it
6:35 I myself am coming from a track & field background. Basically every muscle injury I have had in my career required me to rebuild my balance and coordination in the recovery phase and slowly rebuild my degraded shot putting technique when the recovery was finished. Our bodies are constantly changing and every injury has an impact on our balance and coordination. Some more, some less.
How many bikes do you need.
First of all, a long travel E-mtb to do the most. Form a XC round to downhill lines in a bikepark.
2nd. A daily cheap bike you can park in the city and you know it will still be there when you get back. (if it does get stolen it is at least cheal to replace)
3th. A dirtjumper for playing on pumptracks and dirtparks. (A pumptrack on a long travel E-mtb is not fun)
And maybe if you are into some road rides a race bike could be the forth.
Re Head injury - I took a month off riding after I broke my face and got a concussion. Once you do get back on the bike, invest in a good helmet. I honestly think that the MIPS in my Forefront is what saved my brained.
Re 700mm bars, u could just get lock on grips with one inner clamp, and on trail move them outboard a little...I believe doddy does this as standard...and then back in when finished. No need to move brakes...would be 2 finger set up when narrow, single finger when move them outboard
In response to the question about concussions and balance, I am no Doctor, but I have had a similar issue. I have had numerous concussions over the last 40 yrs of serious cycling, both road and mtn, and have noticed a bit of an issue with balance. I especially notice it when doing slow technical rides on trails where balance is key.
I've built 3 bikes....a hardtail, a short travel FS and a long travel FS. Each one serves a different purpose and this variety seems to work well for me.
My favourite presenters! (although everyone does a stella job, these guys don't go crazy on the singing) :P
Stellar job by everyone here, keep it up Jess and Neil (and everyone behind the camera)!
1.Commuter/gravel/light trail use Rigid SS 29er
2. Trail hardtail
3. Aero CX bike to manly use on tarmac
Your best possible number of bikes depends on your skill and the type of riding you do. I'm an amateur living in a city as flat as a plate (St.Petersburg, Russia), so I can get away with my 2018 Nukeproof Scout 29er when it comes to street riding, dirtjumps, pumptracks, even our local "downhill" park. It was scary, but totally manageable. My best friend, however, while having a Scout (2016 though) as well, want to focus more on tricks, so he got himself a Dartmoor 26Player. When we are both skilled enough to venture to those MTB destinations far away, like Crimea, for example, a trail or enduro FS bike will be in order. It all comes down to what you can do yourself and need your bike to do as well.
If you have lock on grips, with the lock ring on the inside you can simply side them out a couple of cm and glue on the end cap. Hey presto an extra 50mm of bar width, and it's free!
Try a eBike Chain for an high pivot bike (if you need a longer chain) cause they have 136 and not 116 chain links mostly. Their might be a little heavier but there much more reliable too.
Love your stuff watched all your vids carry on with it
Answer to the water bottle + YT Capra question (Both me and my dad have one) : Zip Ties do the job when paired with some pieces of ripped inner tubes. Use a water bottle with a dust cap and it’ll work great. (Its survived UK winters since 2016...) 👍
Non-carbon frames you could install rivnuts.
Since I love riding single speed but at times need gears and more travel...I "need" 4 or 5 bikes. One ss road, one ss mountain, one geared road, one geared hardtail mountain, and it would be nice to have a FS option too. Right now I actually have the two ss options, the geared HT, and a FS frame. I also need more time to ride to put all those bikes to good use.
7:30 I used to work on a couple high-pivot Balfa's once upon a time and used a tandem bike chain to replace the old ones. KMC still makes chains for tandem bikes that are somewhere in the 160 link length. I've replaced a few chains on cargo bikes with those KMC ones and find they were quite robust under heavy use.
Woooh made my day answering 2 of my questions in the SAME SHOW
Lucky!
I love my Camelbak Repack "bum bag", probably the best MTB purchase after the actual bike itself :D.
Carries everything I need without having that excess weight on your back an din turn probably more to the front side of you bike.
I have two MTBs...a 2x10 Orbea 27.5" full suspension and a 1x12 Motobecane 29" hardtail and I have one older 26" MTB as a loaner for friends to try. The bike I ride depends on my mood for riding. Also when one needs maintenance I still have one to ride. But I'm open for changing the numbers. Recently my wife told me if I get one more bike that she'll leave me. I sure am gonna miss having her around. LOL
Some gear cables are exposed for reduced friction, the more housing there is the more friction there is
Thanks guys!! Love it!
I currently have a 20" BMX, a cheap single speed roadie and a basic XC hardtail. I'd like to replace the XC hardtail with an aggressive hardtail and add a full sus and another BMX (a longer 20" or a 22"). So 5 for me.
Pretty sure the cables in housing flex more than running down the frame between two metal pieces. More accurate shifting and more importantly better braking. Doesn't make sense if you have hydro brakes
BEST VIDEO EVER WATCHED ON RUclips!!!!!!
I love the vids. They help so much.
Love the new presenter!!
Andrei Grigore me too 😍
Ideally I’d have: a short travel trail bike (120-140mm), an aggressive hardtail, an enduro bike (160-180mm), a bike that is somewhere in the realms of enduro and downhill like the specialized sx trail 2 and a DH bike.
How come you don't talk about norco bikes, I have a 2016 range C7.3 and absolutely love it.
Joining two chains would effectively make it stronger, regarding you use a master link e.g SRAM powerlink, as these type of links are actually the strongest part of the chain.
I know this is an old video but anyone watching and wondering about concussions, take them very seriously stay off your bike and away from any strenuous activity until you're completely healed. The risk of hitting your head again greatly increases the chances of a very major concussion if not a fatal crash. Depending on the severity and where the actual bruising took place a concussion can lead to different long lasting affects, but the main long lasting affect anyone that has had a concussion in the past will face is an increased volubility to another concussion in the future.
To the question of brakes. Magura MT7 are really powerful, just go for a floating brake rotor, for example from hope. Note that the thickness has to be 2 mm. The original Storm HC rotor is, although relatively cheap, a waste of money in my opinion and experience... Having said that, the levers from shimano feel sturdier and bleeding shimano brakes also requires a little less effort...
Luka Gorjup:
That's why peops started assembling "SHIGURA"s.
2 for me. A gravel bike and a mid travel trail bike :) Cheers lads!
You can actually use the new fidlock system, and zip tie the base plate to your frame if you don't have the mounts for a bottle cage.
Check GMBN tech
#askgmbn will you make a game of bike with Jess so we seehow good rider is she
Doesnt matter how good Jess is now, better to see/get some vids of her progressing to better help others also learn...problem with other presenters is they are pro's, so they left the basic and intermediate skills, fears and the like behind years ago...I often find those that can 'do' forget the real how or hard to get bits as it becomes muscle memory for them....
I live near Redding, ca, the Carr fire burned through a good portion of our mountain bike trails. Do you have recommendations on what I could do to help bring out trails back into shape?
I have a hardtail 29er for off road, and a hybrid for commuting. Don't really need anything else.
I have two bikes: my trek marlin 5 mountain bike and kink gap bmx bike.
Hey guys. Im looking into upgrading my Hardtail mtb over the winter off season. What would the best budget upgrades be. Also how much would it cost me to convert from 2x10 to 1x10
Great show, guys 👍
I use a bmx and a long travel enduro bike. Seems to cover most things
I have a reign and I have no desire for another bike, it just does everything I want it to
What is done with your old bikes, sell them or give it back to sponser
If you were caught with handlebars wider than 700mm in Singapore (which has happened to a number of people) your bike would be confiscated by authorities and would have to pay $150 for transportation of the bicycle. Besides that, it would take 2 weeks for the authorities to inspect the bike for no reason. The people who stop you would take out a measuring tape just to measure the length of the bar. This has cost a lot of problems to many people in the mtb community in Singapore. Luckily I've never been caught
That law really sucks. A donky must have made that law lmao
What’s the benefit of running wider bars? I don’t even know what I run on my bikes I just ride them 🤔
what the... what kind of law is this?! i knew Singapore had a lot of laws... but seriously? Handlebar width?!
Bars over 750mm is one year in jail for every mm over 750, feeding pigeons will cost you $500, and jaywalking is life in prison with zero chance of early release. Just deal with the 699mm bars. There is a reason for the low crime rates, most of the law breakers have been executed.
that is intense haha
Wait, there is a limit?
I thought it's like a pokemon kinda situation... Gotta catch 'em all!
On too many bikes. How about (in a dream world): DH rig, All Mountain Rig. XC Rig, CX rig for the commute and a road bike for cramming the faster longer miles in?
Santa Cruz V10 carbón 2014 for Downhill and Canyon Spectral AL 2014 (160/140) for trail/Enduro ;)
I have a cheap starter hardtail and I'm in the process of building a agressive hardtail trail bike then my next bike is going to be a full suspension enduro
Unrelated to this video, but I really miss Scotty. Great presenters now, but always loved his style.
Your response to the narrow bars wasnt the best. Use solid grips and lock them on at 740mm wide. Solid grips can hang off the end a bit. Set the brakes, dropper and shifter to suite. For around town slide the grips back on all the way.
(Long Story short: to me personally 4 is the perfect number of Bikes) i realised that cycling became much more fun when i objectively looked at how many bikes i REALLY need. this is a very personal thing and you need to be very real with yourself but it does change a lot. my times of hoarding bikes i dont ride anyway are over. i am working a lot and then i also do like to run like twice or thrice a week so on a good week i can get 4 rides in and on a bad week maybe just 2 or even only 1. so where is the point of owning like 7 bikes when the max amount of riding i can get in a good week is 4 times, and lets be honest i wont be out for 4+ plus hours on every of those rides either. i came to the conclusion that i "need" 4 bikes. an road bike because i do like fast road riding (its an rather budget endurance bike but still), an offroad bike (can either be an hardtail or an gravel bike) because i life at an rather forested and mountainous area, i would be a fool to not ride all this beautiful stuff, thats also the bike i am using for most of the longer 100km+ endurance rides. an ACTUAL Mountainbike, because thats the main type of biking i am interested in. and an commuter bike, anything cheap i can ride to work with, the gym or just grocery shopping, a bike that doesnt hurt your wallet if it gets stolen (i never got a bike stolen but i am way to paranoid to leave an expensive bike somewhere outside, i am currently using an elops speed 500, its an singlespeed from decathlon for that porpuse, and honestly its actually an fun bike). these bikes are all the "tools" i need for every type of riding. i dont own an winter or bad weather bike because i am either not going out or going for an run if it really rains that hard, and the mountainbike gets dirty anyway both in summer and winter. if i´d be an pure road cyclist i probably had an aero roadbike, an more relaxed endurance bike for bigger rides, an gravel or cx bike just in case i want to go offroad, that could also double as an winter or bad weather bike and again an commuter bike... so still 4... i dont say that 4 is the holy grail. i dont even say its the right opinion... it just is what works the best for me theres not a single archetype of cyclist i can think of that i could be where 4 bikes somehow isnt the magic sweetspot. lets say i would be an pure mountainbiker... DH/Enduro Bike for the fun stuff, Trail/XC or even gravel bike for the physical training, some random commuter because that will always be in my mix lol and then depending on the genre of mountainbiking you mainly do either an dirt jumper or even bmx if you are more of an trickster or just another bigger bike, maybe even something for bike parks. or lets say i´d be an triathlete (never lol) i would get an trusty commuter as always, than an try bike obviously for the races, than an normal roadbike because who wants to ride an tri bike all the dammn time and than either an gravel or xc bike if i want to go offroad. SEE its 4 again. i mean if you have only one specific type of riding that you are interested in and dont have to worry about your bike getting stolen and also dont want to reach out an single bit into the other branches of riding... than one single bike might be good enough... it might even be right for you, but for sure it isnt for me lol.
The bikes that I buy new I tend to keep forever. The ones that I buy used I am a little less attached to and I am willing to let them go.
Finally i can see Jess :D
For many years I had XC bike, endurance road bike and old road bike from 80s as the no-worries-when-stolen city bike, but I managed to snap that 80s cromo frame and it's not recoverable. Then my friend had a team bike for a week and I tried it - it was Trek Top Fuel, one of the high end of the line - and I decided I need another bike. I was aiming for a trail bike but as I live in area as flat as pancake it was reasonable to choose more adequate bike. I ended up with gravel bike made by company known of their gravity bikes: NS Bikes RAG+.
I have 4 bikes now, one is defunct, and am currently thinking about either upgrading my 2005 Gary Fisher Ziggurrat - the one with carbon rear triangle - with 1x and reasonable forks or just buy a trail bike. Hard choices ;)
Another good show
I been looking into mountain biking quite a bit but where I live it's not that popular, so I was wondering if you could help me where I can find a nice use bike or what site that might sell them, I have learned a lot from you guys love the videos
you should try the trickstuff breaks.
i have 3 mountain bikes and a road bike. likely will get a modern trail bike soon also.
i love my bikes, but it feels like 1 is always getting neglected.
I think you only need enduro 29er (bcause it can be used for enduro trail dh and even xc) and dirtjumper(to do tricks)
Jess rocking a w-86 cool!
Trouble with Singapore is that any rule is usually set up to be enforced and fines are high enough to cause you to pass out on spot. I'd question whether the additional leverage is really critical :-)
KEEP IT!
If I had the space I'd have three bikes; a trail bike, a 26" bmx, and a gravel grinder (or road bike with wide'ish tires.).
ibanez2010 sounds like you need some hooks
That *was* my setup, I currently have a 2018 Cannondale CAADX with 37mm tires, and a 20” BMX, and I recently sold my Norco Kokanee hardtail, but I plan to buy a Giant Trance in the near future. I’m also selling my BMX because I don’t use it much and my parents don’t like me taking up all the room in the garage
3 bikes. I have a full sus mtb, a gravel bike used for road and an electric mtb. Oh yes.
4 bikes. Trail/enduro, downhill, dj, trials
I currently have 3 bikes' Marin hawkhill 1 full sus for trail/ Marin muirwoods 29er for coummute fitness transit/ Marin gestalt 2 for gravel or road and also commute to work cause of shitty bicycle law in singapore about handlebar length ... hard for me to hit the trails lately...
I need / own three bikes... A Roadbike, a Trailbike and a Downhillbike 🤟
If you’re like me and had 8 bikes at one point you really can’t have too many unless they’re not worth fixing; then get rid of them, but if you have a bond with your bikes by all means keep them.
I live in Singapore but I don't care about the handlebar rule thing. My bars are 760 and I have no intention of cutting em
You should have 3 bikes downhill enduro and trail
dirt jumper?????
I mean like mountain bikes
Mountain bikes I mean
And a back up for each
Awesome video.
#askgmbn to expand on a recent question you featured, at what point does an xc bike become a trail bike, a trail bike become an enduro bike etc
SKS bottle cage anywhere works 👍
There's an ahead cap available with bottle cage mounts on it called "king cage".
If wearing a bum bag to hold a drink bottle, I’d be worried about landing on the bottle and putting my back out, not to mention the crippling embarrassment of wearing a bum bag!😄
Yes
Cruiser - Road - Enduro Race Bike - Trail Ripper
Hi, I was wondering what is the most important thing to have on a bike
Want to see more of jess
I have 6 bikes.. only ride my Evil Following now.. was on a quest to have one bike to rule them all... impossible? yes.. but found the sweet spot with the Evil..
Hey guys, love the channel, I feel like I bought the wrong bike i used to race mx and wanted to try mountain biking so I went to my lbs and bought a scott aspect I just feel like it's too front heavy to have a great time going dh I was looking at buying a 20mm longer fork wider bars short stem dropper post and more aggressive tires, do you think it's worth doing that to this bike? Or should I be looking at buying a complete bike
XC - Enduro - Downhill - Dirt - Road
As many as you can
N = 1 - as long as it’s Ti.
(well, I have 4 - oldest ~30 years, youngest ~10; the frames, at least, will last longer than life on our planetary home)
Never have too many bikes!
#askgmbn Hi GMBN, which bike you think I should buy? The Grand Canyon AL 4.0 or the Canyon Neuron AL 5.0? the trails around me are not very technical but I can see how full suspension can be beneficial when riding them. I am fairly new to "true" mountain biking although I have experience on a hardtail. Thanks!
#askgmbn - My question is; when and where do I get the best chance of my question being seen and potentially answered?
I have sent my question in a few times but it wasn't picked or maybe nobody saw it.
For example; would commenting in the first 12-24 hours of the video going live be the best idea? Or maybe via the email? Or maybe even a day or so before the next 'Ask GMBN' show comes out?
Anyway just curious. Thanks, Lucas!
I know someone who is 7' 2" Into motorbikes - prefers adventure because taller. He can flat foot them easily.
#askgmbn I've been mountain biking for about 3 months now and loving it! I currently cannot wheelie, manual, or bunny hop. Which should I focus on learning first?
Addison Grillo:
Manual!