Then you get carried away and spend monies on your bike and end up with:
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Then you get carried away and spend monies on your bike and end up with:
Meh.
I was the first and only rider to do the step down on the nelson dh track on a hardtail for years. 40 long and 30 down. Did it in a 30 mph cross wind too.
I also placed a top 20 pro time - on a hard tail, on nz's roughest course, actually, on EVERY course.
And now I'm fat and old and no one cares anymore.
/The end
Oh and my balls are the size of peanuts, 40ft is nothing.
PS buy a bike based on specs, not brand. Fuck a giant with x5 when you can buy a GT with x9 for the same money. Fuck shimano, get sram. X7 minimum. Make sure the bike shop you buy it off measures you up properly, and has an old as fuck guy out the back checking the new guys work. No, you wont grow into anything or get used to anything. Fuck, im fat, old, and grumpy arent I
Chris
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That stepdown up that hill up that matai road place. Something rather hill? Now a massive forest? Was a freakin long time ago!
I actually chose to ride GT. Was me and scarlett originally, then took on board KB and Tom Holland. Scarlett won the world champs on hers. GT is an amazing company to deal with as are Worrells. My buddies were on Giants at that stage, those DH teams were actually fucking sweet bikes, but no where near as inherently quick as the GT. Giants used to be great value, in fact my current rig is a 2004 DH team.
In those days the GT was the race rig you only got 2 seasons from. The new giants, treks etc sometimes only last a day before the swingarm is gone. Ive seen plenty of them fail. The new giant frame weighs the same as my specialized pitch xc frame. My DH team weighs 50 lbs, but is on its 7th season.
Fuck I rant when im on the vino
If your a big guy 29ers just feel better, I bought this and have found the love again after riding a twitchy Giant Trance X3 for a few years. I am no big balled down hill rider but I like to go as fast as I can.
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I went down the same path herbmiester, got my bike around 2 months ago. The 29ers do smooth out the ride very well, probably a good thing for someone who can't hold a good line down the tracks like me haha. I really like the specialized dual suspension design, it worked more efficiently than any other brand I tried before buying. I guess that doesn't matter too much though if you don't plan on riding a the bike up hills.. I looked at a few other bikes before getting the stumpy, including a giant trance advanced, anthem x0, avanti torrent, and scott spark and genius. The stumpjumper was the most versatile (most useful travel, best lockout, more relaxed geometry than the xc bikes) of all of them, as it suited the mix of riding I was planning on doing best (combo of xcountry and technical trail). It was more expensive in terms of the componentry you get for the money though.
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SPECIALIZED mate. I had one in a younger, slimmer previous existence :D