New bike time??

[indica]

We have decent long travel bikes, looking for maybe something else as I have not been riding and am moving house. GT Sanction and Kona Process.
Terrain is probably gravel, fire road and roads.
I don't like hardtails - it's been so long riding full suspension bikes I cannot pedal on one without feeling unco.

Thoughts suggestions ridicule and abuse all welcome.

 

[Mattyp]

Yes, always.

 

[indica]

Yes, always.

Yeah but WHAT?

 

[ozzybmx]

I have a Road/CX to Enduro and everything inbetween.

Go an 'adventure' bike with capabilities of 29 x 2.4.

I have a Nukeproof Scout HT and a Cotic BFE Max HT, none of them get ridden by me.

Its either mountain on a FS or gravel on the adventure bike.

The loss in energy used trying to pedal a 13kg HT on gravel or smooth trail with knobblies is disheartening.

BTW my adventure bike started off as a 29 steel HT, drops bars and roadie shifters transformed it to the awesome bike it is now. Its better now as an adventure bike than it ever was as a HT. Decent rolling tyres for gravel with a line of knobs on the outside make it a fast bike over easy terrain.

 

[Mattyp]

@beeb just built up a 180mm travel gravel bike that might be something similar to what you're after?

 

[bear the bear]

Something down-country 120-130, pick your flavor both ends.

 

[steve jobs' pancreas]

@ozzybmx i like the yellow one

 

[dirtdad]

Dirt jump / thrash around hard tails are awesome. Probably my most used bike (time wise, not kms). Steel or aluminium, just something solid and cheap. Lock it up outside the pub. Ghost it off a jump into the bushes for laughs. Anything goes!

I have a Nukeproof Scout HT and a Cotic BFE Max HT, none of them get ridden by me.

Something something … buy my cotic?
(Edit: too slow I see)

 

[ozzybmx]

@ozzybmx i like the yellow one

Its an awesome bike, now has a 160mm fork and 29" tyres. Pity it comes in at 14.5kg which is the same weight as my Deviate, my FS Spur is 11kg and is a really fast bike.

The steel adventure bike is sub 10kg and has been ridden on blue trails (slow), I also rode every trail at the You Yangs on it back when it was a fully rigid geared HT MTB.

It goes great as a drop bar adventure bike, still has the same forks, just repainted and drop bars.

EDIT.

 

[steve jobs' pancreas]

That’s a big crack

 

[indica]

Something down-country 120-130

sell the house?

 

[cammas]

Here you go a full suspension gravel bike, should work for you.

MCR 9 RDO

Adding our CVA full suspension to a gravel bike platform blends the control of a cross-country race bike with the handling of a gravel bike.

www.ninerbikes.com

 

[bear the bear]

sell the house?

doesn't have to be carbon, and doesn't have to be nu' school geo that's the point of down-cunty

 

[steve jobs' pancreas]

Just can’t get my head around drop bars on a bike for dirt, be it fire trail or single track

 

[ozzybmx]

Here you go a full suspension gravel bike, should work for you.

Big wank, it doesn't have to be that hard.

 

[cammas]

Big wank, it doesn't have to be that hard.

Sometimes harder is better, now about the bike yes it’s a bit over the top, a good seatpost and let out a couple of psi

 

[Haakon]

for road and gravel work, rear suspension will make you feel unco I reckon...

I quite like the look of these https://www.bikeradar.com/news/giant-revolt-x-leak/

 

[steve jobs' pancreas]

@Haakon regardless of it being a "gravel bike" you can't put a Giant on the back of a Euro car

 

[Haakon]

@Haakon regardless of it being a "gravel bike" you can't put a Giant on the back of a Euro car

Been doing that for years... Am I doing it wrong?

 

[ozzybmx]

I quite like the look of these

Same price and clearance for 29 x 3"

GMX+ Titanium

Race | Ride | Seek Hand Built, Limited Edition Titanium and Steel Bikes UCI Approved Carbon Wheelsets Designed in Australia, Ridden around the World

www.curvecycling.com.au