Light / fast MTB for 100 miles
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He's not just leading on a hardtail he's also leading using a rigid fork! Unless your racing fast technical downhill stuff I really don't see the need for a suspension fork, plus it will lighten the bike up and save some watts for the rear wheel instead of some being absorbed by the suspension fork, in addition you can't beat the reliability and simplicity of a rigid fork. There are some new bikes out now with a so called suspension fork that uses either an internal shock contained inside the head tube, which again isn't for major shocks but it dampen shocks pretty well, and for non technical downhill riding those would be fine. If your unconvinced read this: https://nsmb.com/articles/ride-rigid-fork/
Of course you did mention catching air, not sure how big of air you're talking about, a 1/2 a foot or so is no problem with a rigid fork bike, but doing an 6 foot jump could blow tires which you probably don't want to do on a 100 mile ride out in nowhere land.
I use to live in Southern California and all I rode down rocky mountain trails was a hardtail rigid fork bike but I kept up just fine with my friends who had suspension forks, but we weren't racing either, or see who can get the most amount of hang time, we stayed pretty much on the ground with some hops to get over obstacles, just too many rocks to try to go flying.
Just food for thought.
There’s a 9,000+ post thread about them on MTBR.
I’m not concerned.
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I find the world of Chinese carbon tricky to navigate. Do you know which one seems to be the front runner these days? Modern geo, threaded bb?
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If interested I have built as a project a 17lb 29er hardtail with a lauf.
Cube gtc slt frame.
Very light and fast.
Selling for £2000
Message me if interested
Cube gtc slt frame.
Very light and fast.
Selling for £2000
Message me if interested
I did, you didn't ever respond.
To close this off, I was contacted by another user, DanW and he offered me a 29" XC bike he'd built up and used for a few years. It seemed to fit my needs perfectly so we met up and I bought it off him.
This is the spec:
...and this is from my maiden voyage on her:
I've since had a few training rides on the SDW and it seems perfect for the task. It's so fast compared to my Santa Cruz too. Thanks anyone who offered help and advice.
To close this off, I was contacted by another user, DanW and he offered me a 29" XC bike he'd built up and used for a few years. It seemed to fit my needs perfectly so we met up and I bought it off him.
This is the spec:
...and this is from my maiden voyage on her:
I've since had a few training rides on the SDW and it seems perfect for the task. It's so fast compared to my Santa Cruz too. Thanks anyone who offered help and advice.