Long Wheel Base Posted February 5, 2020 Posted February 5, 2020 My new Lynskey. Bit of a mix and match at the moment. Budget is still being worked out. But rides very fast.Ah man that is nice. Is it set up for you already? That seat post looks loooong.
Hairy Posted February 5, 2020 Posted February 5, 2020 Thank you.It is all done. Working like a dream now. I actually had to lift it a tiny bit higher. The frame is an XL but it seems a little smaller than my old Spez. To be fair I am enjoying the closer reach and ever so slightly smaller feel. I feel more in control than my old bike. I just need to get around to painting the fork. It is my old carbon one. Not sure how to paint carbon. Would really like to do it a matt black. plastidip for now on the fork?
Rouxenator Posted February 6, 2020 Posted February 6, 2020 I think a lot of it has to do with the perception of how much you should pay for a mountain bike. To me it seems people think you are unable to ride a bike that costs less than R20k and the more you pay the longer it will last. Here I am on 29,000km riding a bike that cost me R9k used 4 years ago.
MORNE Posted February 6, 2020 Posted February 6, 2020 Ah man that is nice. Is it set up for you already? That seat post looks loooong. Thank you.It is all done. Working like a dream now. I actually had to lift it a tiny bit higher. The frame is an XL but it seems a little smaller than my old Spez. To be fair I am enjoying the closer reach and ever so slightly smaller feel. I feel more in control than my old bike. I just need to get around to painting the fork. It is my old carbon one. Not sure how to paint carbon. Would really like to do it a matt black. #tallpeopleproblems.mine alllook the same...on XL frames too. anyone under 1.9m's feet wont even reach my pedals lol.
Long Wheel Base Posted February 6, 2020 Posted February 6, 2020 #tallpeopleproblems.mine alllook the same...on XL frames too. anyone under 1.9m's feet wont even reach my pedals lol.I am not as tall as you guys but I ride a L frame and I am always jealous of the shorter guys because I think the bikes just look so much better when the frames are smaller. I also slam all my stems so sometimes getting the fit right is a bit tricky.
MORNE Posted February 6, 2020 Posted February 6, 2020 I am not as tall as you guys but I ride a L frame and I am always jealous of the shorter guys because I think the bikes just look so much better when the frames are smaller. I also slam all my stems so sometimes getting the fit right is a bit tricky.I made peace with it. Fit and all day comfort is more important to me.
Skubarra Posted February 6, 2020 Posted February 6, 2020 I think a lot of it has to do with the perception of how much you should pay for a mountain bike. To me it seems people think you are unable to ride a bike that costs less than R20k and the more you pay the longer it will last. Here I am on 29,000km riding a bike that cost me R9k used 4 years ago. My trusty old HT purchased 8 years ago for less than R20K, have over 42,000km on it with more kilos being added every week. That said, now I also have a FS in my garage worth more than R20K and it is more fun & faster in just about every aspect... (and far less expensive to maintain than I anticipated). That "perception" might have more truth in it than you imagine.
eddy Posted February 6, 2020 Posted February 6, 2020 That said, now I also have a FS in my garage worth more than R20K and it is more fun & faster in just about every aspect... (and far less expensive to maintain than I anticipated). That "perception" might have more truth in it than you imagine. True that. My FS has cost me almost nothing in maintenance since I bought it 5 years ago. The opportunity cost of having spent some money on a bike I have ridden once since I lent it to a friend to do J2C in 2018 is something else again....
Wolf Lyle Posted February 6, 2020 Posted February 6, 2020 Hardtails definitely aren’t dead, just gotta know where to find them. A few weeks ago I picked up a Commencal meta am. 29er, eagle 12spd, 150mm lyric up front, and beast of all - 65 degree head angle. I’ve spent some time on this bike now and man, no regrets selling the road bike. Happily Cruz along sealed surfaces and get to explore any trails I find along the way. On the trails it’s a roudy barrel of fun! Just as capable as my full sus, just not as forgiving. The meta has quickly become my go to bike for a quick ride after work etc.. best part of all, after riding the meta for a couple weeks, I jumped back on my Hightower and it felt like dream. Hardtails Are ALIVE
Andrew Steer Posted February 6, 2020 Posted February 6, 2020 If anybody has a horrible old Niner Sir9 'corpse' in size large lying around... please call me
Suidwes Boytjie Posted February 6, 2020 Posted February 6, 2020 My trusty old HT purchased 8 years ago for less than R20K, have over 42,000km on it with more kilos being added every week. That said, now I also have a FS in my garage worth more than R20K and it is more fun & faster in just about every aspect... (and far less expensive to maintain than I anticipated). That "perception" might have more truth in it than you imagine.Willie, then i must seriously been doing something wrong as i find that a full sus is more expensive to maintain than a hardtail... I have been toying with the thought for a number of months now to go back to a hardtail, but thinking of that long corrugated karoo roads in the middle of the night... you will be the first one to slap me through the face.
Headshot Posted February 6, 2020 Posted February 6, 2020 This thread still going? Flogging a dead horse. The HT will never die!
Skubarra Posted February 6, 2020 Posted February 6, 2020 I have been toying with the thought for a number of months now to go back to a hardtail, but thinking of that long corrugated karoo roads in the middle of the night... you will be the first one to slap me through the face. That 10 hours of corrugations through the Tankwa Karoo brutally killed off my theory that my HT can do anything a FS can do.. Would love to see someone do that road on a gravel bike...
Starchboy Posted February 6, 2020 Posted February 6, 2020 This thread still going? Flogging a dead horse. The HT will never die!Which is exactly why we need a thread to celebrate that fact!
MORNE Posted February 6, 2020 Posted February 6, 2020 That 10 hours of corrugations through the Tankwa Karoo brutally killed off my theory that my HT can do anything a FS can do.. Would love to see someone do that road on a gravel bike... yeah like that guy who won the Munga on a gravelbike...what was his name again?The guy he shared the win with must proper suck.... he could only barely stick with him on a DS mtb
Rouxenator Posted February 6, 2020 Posted February 6, 2020 That 10 hours of corrugations through the Tankwa Karoo brutally killed off my theory that my HT can do anything a FS can do.. Would love to see someone do that road on a gravel bike... Only 10 hours? I've done 6 Trans Karoos, all of them taking more than 12 hours, all of them on hard tail. No problem.
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