New bikes are Huuuge! Zaskar trigger warning!

[sminchnz]

Yeah, realising that the bar on my 26er Zaskar is at the same height as as the fork crown on my 29er Full Moxie was a bit horrifying. The old bike is hugely fun and agile and cool, but damn the new one is fast.

 

[dirttorpedo]

I was reading an article - possibly on pinkbike or NSMB.com that said you should size down on a modern mountain bike because they are so large. That photo suggests that recommendation may make sense.

 

[eri]

Mostly my modern bike has a high stack, then I added a 140 fork. Little bike rides ok but not nearly as ok as the big bike.

Here's my 97 gt lightning up next to my 2012 raijin. Thats nominally 15 years of evolution but I think the lightning was an ancient obsolete geo by 97.

 

[Canuckbiker]

We rode every type of trail BITD using bikes like your 97’ GT (technical and smooth) because that’s all we had. It’s nice to have both modern and old school options now.

I don’t take my vintage MTBs out in the Vancouver/North Shore/Whistler technical stuff but there are so many smooth offroad trails around here. I choose the vintage bikes every time over modern for smooth trails and take the duely out for the rough/technical stuff. Great to have both options.

 

[markoc]

If it stops raining anytime soon I'll get a pic of my 98 P7 against my 2020 P7.

 

[Mod-Master]

One other thing I’ve noticed is that not only bikes that have gotten bigger, it’s logos

Demonstration

 

[Mod-Master]

If it stops raining anytime soon I'll get a pic of my 98 P7 against my 2020 P7.

Its raining here real bad.

I’ve just walked 20 minutes through rain.

Surprising how much you can get soaked.

 

[xtaffa]

Are there places/opps for properly demo'ing bikes these days? I'd like to try a couple of modern geo bikes, on a trail, to see what the deal is....but buying one on a flyer is beyond laughable for me - if i did like one it would likely be a multi-month/year saving and selling + campaigning and influencing effort at home...

 

[velomaniac]

Find a demo day somewhere especially if it's at a trail centre. Had a go on something really trick by Scott a few years ago and I was blown away by the difference modern geo made over my retro steeds. I too am at the poor end of the economy but found a 24 month zero interest finance deal which put a £900 squids modern geo hardtail within my £40 per month capability. I view a modern bike as a safety feature as its capabilities outperform mine so that finding I don't bounce post off like I used to is less likely

 

[xtaffa]

Ta! Previous searches over last couple of years never returned much - probably pandemic and supply issues mind. Google now just returned a few shops, understandably, charging a fee for demo rides. Some taking fee off purchase. Best I found were these guys; try four bikes for £80, fee comes off the purchase with trails close by.

https://dirtworks.co.uk/mountain-bike-demo/