Man, so much good reading on this thread! Like others have said, I ride all my bikes on the same trails. The big difference is speed. With my front suspended 29er, I can go faster and feel less beat up at the end of the day. With my single speed Quickbeam and 35mm slicks, I'm picking and choosing the line a lot more gingerly and my arms ache at the end of the downhills.
I think a Hunq w/ fat knobbies would be a fine bike to learn on. Just slow it down, scoot your but off the back of the seat, loosen up the arms and legs, and drag that rear brake! Cheers, David "it isn't a contest. Just enjoy the ride." - Seth Vidal On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 4:14 PM, RJM <crccpadu...@gmail.com> wrote: > My old mountain bike is a 1996 Specialized Stumpjumper M2 frame with a > front suspension fork and 26" wheels...canti brakes. The bike is in pieces > now because the suspension fork finally gave up. I rode that bike so much, > light, nimble, and just a good time. I would like to get a new fork for it > but just haven't thought enough about it. I just haven't been doing enough > trail riding to build up a dedicated mountain bike now. I would like to. > > My ideal mountain bike would be a Rivendell custom mountain mixte with > 650b wheels and bombadil/hunqapillar tire clearance. A hunqapillar would > work too...and the headbadge is awesome. Something like that will probably > be my third Rivendell. > > I don't think suspension is all that for the riding I do or would do if I > got out into the singletrack more. I know plenty of people who tear up the > trails using dual suspended bikes and they do ride fast....it just isn't > for me. I'm now just a little too old to be getting into the kind of > crashes I used to get into...too long to heal properly. I'm just a slower > rider who likes technical stuff, but likes to do it on my own time. > > On Tuesday, February 18, 2014 11:48:15 AM UTC-6, David Stein wrote: > >> New to the group. Have a Hunq on order. I've seen a number of threads >> dancing around this topic (including the recent 'Hunqapillar as a true >> mountain bike' thread). Wanted to ask the question a different way, how >> many mountain bikes do you own, what are they, and when do you decide to >> take which bike out? >> >> I just got into mountain biking/trail riding after years of road riding >> (Bay Area, mostly fire roads for now, some single track). I suck at it. >> Trying to get better. Salsa El Mariachi with front suspension. >> My interest is in exploring mostly, not necessarily going fast or racing, >> but that being said I haven't met a downhill that hasn't resulted in a >> crash or three (including the demo ride in Shell Ridge I took the Hunq on). >> When I ordered the Hunq the idea was to use it as an all-rounder (mix of >> fire roads, light trails, city riding, commuting) and my Salsa El Mariachi >> 29er to take on more technical terrain and single track. But after another >> couple more harrowing rides, I decided the Salsa wasn't for me and sold it >> (I think it was the 29er wheel size that I didn't like, I am short and it >> wasn't nimble enough, though maybe it was the general geometry of the >> frame). So now, I'm left with the choice of running the Hunq as my only >> mountain bike with two sets of wheels (2.1 smart sams on one and 1.75 green >> guards on another), or using the Salsa money to buy an additional >> singletrack specific bike with front suspension (and using in conjunction >> with the Hunq, the ole N+1). Curious to what other people are doing. >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "RBW Owners Bunch" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
