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The MTB THREAD .....*Spring has Sprung, dust production March*
I've just done a looooooooooooooooad of winter road action #FULLSUSSER with 2.4" tyres up front #LOVESTARMAC
Its just the comfiest thing for all conditions, and with lockout (not that you need it with good sus platform) it can be any wife you want it to be
Heard you were eyeing up a Bronson II JTD
Overkill simply doesn't exist, comfort and plushness is where life flows best on the trails.
Horses for courses....
Anyway, what worthwhile full suss can you pick up for £60? As for a Bronson....I don't earn Santa Cruz money sadly, hell, I don't even earn Raleigh money
New components and no permission/time to test them, do not want kids (or wife absent of wheels)
tbh it's just been a busy few weekends, i could manage an evening ride but it's been cold and I'm lazy. I wouldn't change family life for anything though, it wrecks the freedom you had before but is soooo much more rewarding. That said, I drop them at the airport sunday and it's just me and the dogs for a fortnight
Originally posted by {SAS}TB
Also gives me the chance to probe around the wife's rear end
May look into them at some point / when by Innertube mountain decreases
One of the places which has more benefit than anywhere else in shaving weight, is rotational weight.
Look at the price in shaving a few grams off a rear mech or crank, going for the top end XTR, uber expensive for little saving, and you've got to do it across all the bike components to add up to anything substantial.
Beauty of tubeless is you remove the heavy inner tube, and add some lightweight liquid, insta-rotational gainz! On top of that pretty much never get a flat again. Slime tubes go against this unfortunately as they keep the inner tube and add the slime weight coming in around 170g.
Conti inners are around 130g.
Stans fluid is 30-51g depending how much you use (I went all year in the back off 30g)
So inners are 200g heavier
Slime tubes 280g heavier
Just under and just over half a pound added to bike weight, which is a lot if you were to try and get this saving in drivechain components, but the crux, this saving can be made in rotational weight.
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