Big fan of the wolftooth jawns.
I found this a pretty nice thing that Vital did. A great thing showing that 2k āĀ£$ā¬ā gets you a really great bike to start out on, not for plowing the rowdiest trails at the bike park. But getting into something more than straight up XC bikes and getting you and your bike to riding more fun trails and maybe even dipping your toes into some enduro racing!
Itās kind of a ājokeā that some of the bikes donāt have a dropper from start, like the GT and Fezzari.
Also please check out Just be, the girl-gang I got to ride with when they were here this summer. Really nice vid, some great footage from āmy bikeparkā and just good vibes.
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Kids out in the woods, sending it.
Just tried to put 28 psi into my 27.2 x-fusion hilo. Boy was that a bad idea. Seems no damage was done but I had to take it down to 3-5 psi before it would budge again, and figure out how to depress it enough to cycle the oil into the right place so I wouldnāt blow it all out of the post. Seems like there is no documentation of this post on the internet and the service docs I pulled off their site via achive.org are very, very wrong.
On the plus side, I donāt have to buy a dropper post because all this one needed to work correctly was a couple of psi.
@frank_doktor you had and warrantied or serviced a more mtb oriented clamp diameter of this post, didnāt you?
did they mean 28kPa?
I donāt know, but looking at the unit conversion that sort of makes sense. Iām also reading about people putting this much air into these on the internet and not saying that they blew their post up.
yeah, I searched after and found a few reviews that needed to inflate >28psi (to low 30s) to get them to work properly. But also 100psi will deform the internals.
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Another possibility is that my pump gauge is busted.
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No, never dealt with that one. I know i bought some cheap 27.2 external for sup but she never used it.
This is indeed a 27.2 external for cursed Jeff Jones. It was almost $200 tho smdh
I think Iāve about zeroed in on a Salsa Horsethief as next bike.
When I click on the various configurations on the website, the SX Eagle model lists as 2020, but the SLX model lists as 2019 and is 11 speed SLX. Anybody a Salsa dealer? Anybody know when Salsa drops updated Shimano 2020 spec?
Fork is kinda sucky tho too. I donāt even know.
What tickles your fancy on the Salsa?
I mean itās kinda outdated on the trail-geo side, it kinda reads as a āover forked/damped xc-race bikeā geometry wise. Not what you want for a modern trail bike, the parts that sticks out to me is the hella slack seat tube and not that slack head tube. No matter the flip chip you canāt get around that and as you mentioned the spec isnāt all thatā¦
Iād have a close hard look at Norcoās Optic which by all means seems like a full on trail party bike:
@frank_doktor & @motorbacon can tell you all about how great the Trance 29 is.
I wouldnāt buy a Salsa mtb, they are just not that great of a brand keeping up with the times. If you specify a bit more on what you are after we can throw some suggestions out for you. But from the Horsethief I gather: 29er, mid travel-ish and what you would call a trail bike at around 3ish bongs?
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Itās really strange that the salsa is specd with a short offset fork also, considering the geometry.
Yeah also this.
Yeah.
- BB on the higher side- there are a lot of stone walls and logs to clear and too low BB sucks.
- Pedals well- Iām fat and slow and need to keep up on climbs. Was looking at DW link, Maestro, or Split Pivot bikes.
- I donāt really āshred.ā Iām not good at jumps. I feel like a Reign or a Ripmo AF might be too much bike.
Giant sorta threw put me off with Trance having 25 internal rims and the Reign having 30 internal. I equate the skinnier rims with a more XC bike. Santa Cruz does the same with Hightower and Tallboy. Maybe Iām reading too much into it? Santa Cruz looks cool, and seems more mid-travel, just not sure how efficiently they pedal.
IME, santa cruz pedals OK. i found my ibis pedaled much better. a ripley would tick all your boxes except priceā¦
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Maybe I should get my money right and wait for a used Ripley to pop up on PB or ebay.
The Trance has heavy cross-country DNA from getting developed by/with Adam Craig. Think of it as a de-tuned enduro bike for XC riding. Thereās a bunch of videos on YT where they talk about their prototyping and tuning process.