International Young Naturists Organisation
General Talk (primarily non-naturist) => The Sports Bar! => Topic started by: Districtqc on July 15, 2012, 08:23:10 pm
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Any mountain biker here ? For my part i do downhill,
i own a 2005 Devinci Ollie. (Devinci is a canadian bicycle brand)
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Yeah, I ride! ... not so much as I used to now and nowhere near as much as I'd like to.
A few years ago I used to race DH a lot, but racing in the UK has become pretty expensive, due to liability issues and health and safety crap from landowners.
My race bike is an older style Giant Glory. She's pretty battered, but still going strong!
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I need to take my bike to the shop, I haven't been on it in a coupke years :(
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this is nice ! i never raced . i wish i had though.
advent, if your were living in montreal, i would have told you to bring your bike at the shop i work at :)
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I normally do most of my own work but I apparantly can't change tubes correctly. Baby powder doesn't seem to work and I just kept blowing tubes until I got frustrated.
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Don't use tyre levers unless you REALLY need to. 50% of the time you'll pinch the tube and have to start again.
Also, don't use crap tyres. If you do anything rough, double-walled are the only option to avoid flats.
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and check your pressure too, not enough and you risk to pinch flat, too much and youll slip on every corner....
downhill wise > 30-35 psi
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That depends on the tyres though.
I've run Michelin tubeless tyres with fat inners tubes in down to as low as 10psi and not have any worrys about punctures!
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wow thats crazy ! even if your dont puncture your tube, your gonna kink the hell out of your rim !
i currently have a set of michelin tubeless tires on my bike with heavy duty tubes. (DH16 at the rear and DH32 at the front)
i was riding at 25 psi the other day, guess what, i punctured on a rock...
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Yeah, I do smash wheels a bit, but it doesn't really matter if they're a bit square!
Have you ridden at Mont Saint Anne?
I love watching the world cup there ... that track looks awesome!
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I never went to mont sainte anne, its like 3 hours of driving to get there....
I go at Bromont instead... sometimes the world cup is there too. Great mountain, very technical tracks.
And its only 1 hour of driving from montreal.. :)
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My problem was almost entirely crap tires. Our local market is small and I feel really odd buying bike tires online without knowing what brands are best.
We actually have a good bike shop now, I just haven't taken it in yet.
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For tires, go with maxxis, you cant go wrong with these
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I go at Bromont instead... sometimes the world cup is there too. Great mountain, very technical tracks.
And its only 1 hour of driving from montreal.. :)
Nice. I'd love to have a World cup track to smash out on a weekend!
We don't really have much high stuff in England. I've been up to Fort William quite a few times (which is really tough) and down to the Alpine tracks, but they're more one-off holidays. Our regular tracks are usually just vehicle uplifts, not chairlifts.
As for tyres, yeah, you can't go wrong with Maxxiss, but get the right ones as there are loads of versions. Most of their tyres all have three different compound options, and two different sidewall options, so it can be a bit difficult to know what to get!
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I need to either get my bike fixed, or replace it. But either takes money, which I just don't have right at the moment.
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I have a mountain bike and sometimes take it off-road, just out in the country though, nothing too serious!
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yes there is tons of models, but you can go on the maxxis website and chek them all to see wich one fits you best.
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I looked up Maxxis mountain bikes and all I found was tires...
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um yes... maxxis is a tire maker ...
We were speaking about tires on earlier posts lol, that why we got confused ...
If your lookin for a new bike, i would suggest you to look at Giant bikes
Biggest bike manufacturing company in the world, and you always get a lot more for your dollar than other brands ..
hope that helps
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That does actually. I didn't see where you guys had stopped talked talking about the bikes and started talking about the tires.
But I figure if the tires are $45 a piece, the bike is going to be more expensive than what I want to spend at this point. It would be cheaper to fix mine.
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it really depends on what type of bike you want, but generally speaking, around the 400 to 500 range you can rally have a great bike.
like a performance hydrid or a hardtail mtb ...
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To be honest, that's way outside of my price range at the moment. I have a bike that I can borrow if I really get into the mood to go mountain biking, though it will need tires and such. But that's a lot cheaper than buying a bike. It really isn't a great bike, but I don't go a lot of places that would require anything built too heavily.
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used to ride my bike a lot when i was a kid would like to go nude riding.