MacRetro chat and rides thread
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A rigid mountain bike with triple chainset and rack and mudguard mounts is pretty hard to beat as a do it all bike if you ask me. Throw on a pair of narrow slicks and maybe change the cassette and you've got a pretty decent road bike. Back in 92 I had this set up with my Dynatech Ogre, set up for offroad duties most of the time but had some slicks ready for 60-70 mile road rides plus I had a set of Scott AT3 bars on it which offered plenty of hand positions for longer rides.
All these modern bikes are too specialist, hence why we need 4-5 bikes minimum now
A rigid mountain bike with triple chainset and rack and mudguard mounts is pretty hard to beat as a do it all bike if you ask me. Throw on a pair of narrow slicks and maybe change the cassette and you've got a pretty decent road bike. Back in 92 I had this set up with my Dynatech Ogre, set up for offroad duties most of the time but had some slicks ready for 60-70 mile road rides plus I had a set of Scott AT3 bars on it which offered plenty of hand positions for longer rides.
All these modern bikes are too specialist, hence why we need 4-5 bikes minimum now
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Depends how hard ye can screw yer eyes nearaboot shut, neebs.
jimo746":6dupkz28 said:RobMac":6dupkz28 said:
Depends how hard ye can screw yer eyes nearaboot shut, neebs.
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One bike to do everything is easy.
One bike to do everything well is impossible.
Colin's example is correct for him. For myself, there's no way I would enjoy a lot of my riding on that particular bike. The riding I do on my trips abroad would be impossible.
If I theoretically "had" to strip my current fleet to bare minimum it would be three.
Santa Cruz 5010 - 27.5 130mm full sus
Saffron 29er hardtail 100mm fork.
Charge Plug - disc brake road/cross clearance for 40mm tyres.
Sorry to say retro would not be on the list. As much as I love them, modern bikes just do it better. Luckily I don't have to strip right down do I can make do with the eight I have now.
One bike to do everything is easy.
One bike to do everything well is impossible.
Colin's example is correct for him. For myself, there's no way I would enjoy a lot of my riding on that particular bike. The riding I do on my trips abroad would be impossible.
If I theoretically "had" to strip my current fleet to bare minimum it would be three.
Santa Cruz 5010 - 27.5 130mm full sus
Saffron 29er hardtail 100mm fork.
Charge Plug - disc brake road/cross clearance for 40mm tyres.
Sorry to say retro would not be on the list. As much as I love them, modern bikes just do it better. Luckily I don't have to strip right down do I can make do with the eight I have now.
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Yeah it depends on the terrain you're riding as to what will do the job. As technology has progressed the trails have too, meaning that one bike to do everything is nearly impossible to find these days. MTBing has never been about riding the steepest "gnarliest" routes possible for me so a rigid mountain bike still does the job for most of the riding I enjoy. Don't get me wrong, trail centre stuff is really fun but I'm happy on Red/Blue routes which can be tackled on a fully rigid bike.
I suppose the bike I was talking about would be a modern, custom built, version of my old bike. So disc brakes, front shocks with lock-out and a good range of gears to cover road and off-road. A set of 700c disc wheels to throw on for road rides would be essential, I couldn't be arsed swapping tyres over every time I wanted to go for a road ride.
As it is though I'm happy with the smallish
fleet of bikes I have.
Yeah it depends on the terrain you're riding as to what will do the job. As technology has progressed the trails have too, meaning that one bike to do everything is nearly impossible to find these days. MTBing has never been about riding the steepest "gnarliest" routes possible for me so a rigid mountain bike still does the job for most of the riding I enjoy. Don't get me wrong, trail centre stuff is really fun but I'm happy on Red/Blue routes which can be tackled on a fully rigid bike.
I suppose the bike I was talking about would be a modern, custom built, version of my old bike. So disc brakes, front shocks with lock-out and a good range of gears to cover road and off-road. A set of 700c disc wheels to throw on for road rides would be essential, I couldn't be arsed swapping tyres over every time I wanted to go for a road ride.
As it is though I'm happy with the smallish
fleet of bikes I have.Similar threads
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