Mountain Biking

OK, in the market for a bike soonish. Having not touched a bike or a biking related thread in nearly 2 years, what have I missed?

Boost and metric is a thing apparently (the latter I actually really like the sound of - makes a lot of sense). Long travel slack 69er 29er are a thing - what else? Can I buy a standard xt 11 speed groupset and it will still fit boost and non-boost BBs? (just a matter of spacing stuff out?)
 
rhysduck said:
The new Shan 27 Kremer yeah! Loving it so far.

Yeah dude! She's been ridden a fair bit since our meeting at BikePark, she's currently in bits (as in the rear triangle in bits) awaiting new bearings, she's not had them changes since new so well overdue...

Before having the new Shan before Christmas the Aeris was running perfectly.

If you're down this way any time give me a shout! What you riding these days?
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Another shan! Sweet.

Luckily (actually not I miss it) my Aeris hasn't been ridden in mud yet at all since I bought it! So my bearings are still pretty good. So still the Aeris, no need for another bike for me.

Yes definitely, BPW is on the list for as soon as I'm back in the UK :)

Supercow said:
OK, in the market for a bike soonish. Having not touched a bike or a biking related thread in nearly 2 years, what have I missed?

Boost and metric is a thing apparently (the latter I actually really like the sound of - makes a lot of sense). Long travel slack 69er 29er are a thing - what else? Can I buy a standard xt 11 speed groupset and it will still fit boost and non-boost BBs? (just a matter of spacing stuff out?)
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Not sure on the group set, I had to space my XT 11 out because from Factory the cranks are daft and don't align properly. I doubt it actually I had to space mine 1/2mm just to get it to align. But I assume the boost cranks are just spaced even further. 53mm chainline on boost iirc. 48mm(ish) for non boost. On XT anyway, so quite a difference, I doubt there just adjusted with some spacers. If so you'll need 5mm longer bolts...

I'm not sure I care about boost, but finding a bike without one now is quite hard so I doubt you have a choice.

28.99mm BBs (serious), boost, 180mm dropper posts. But realistically not much has changed since you're Reign.

The whole long travel slack 29er thing is real IMO though, I don't care too much about the other standards. I rode a Hightower LT the other week and if you're fairly tall (IIRC your about 6ft?) then they are awesome. I'd definitely try one before going on 650b, a 29er will be my next bike.

WT tyres if they weren't around before? Though I'm still on 2.4/2.3 tyres.
 
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Supercow said:
OK, in the market for a bike soonish. Having not touched a bike or a biking related thread in nearly 2 years, what have I missed?

Boost and metric is a thing apparently (the latter I actually really like the sound of - makes a lot of sense). Long travel slack 69er 29er are a thing - what else? Can I buy a standard xt 11 speed groupset and it will still fit boost and non-boost BBs? (just a matter of spacing stuff out?)
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It was bad coming back to mountain bikes after 15 years!

Boost - you won't find a new 2018 bike that isn't boost now, RS are making a lot of their forks boost only, so embrace it :D 148 rear and 110 front hub spacing. There is no such thing as a boost bottom bracket, the chainrings/cranksets are what are boost so that's all you'd need to change, but some bikes will run a non-boost crankset on a boost frame.

Boost also gives you more room for tyres, up to 2.8" in 27.5" forks normally.

Everything will be slightly slacker, slightly longer and with a bit steeper seat angle than a few years back. 27.5+ (2.8/3.0" tyres) and semi plus (2.6") are real and they're awesome, so much grip and they roll well too. On a FS bike they're very nice to have, on a 27.5 hardtail I'd say they're awesome.
 
I got ~16 miles in today as well, I however didn't even get a sniff in on your elevation though... That's disgusting! Think I only covered about 900ft climbing in total, but it was awesome riding in the dry, with temps in the teens for a change, sick to the teeth of rain, I love the winter but I'm so ready for summer now.
 
Got the opportunity to demo a T130s from Wednesday-Sunday this week. Will be riding every day and getting in all my usual local rides both natural and trail centres to see how I get on. I then plan to try and demo either a Calibre Bossnut (if the new one gets released soon) or the Jamis Dakar to see how a well rated ~£1k bike feels in comparison. If its noticeably worse to me (I highly doubt it) I'm happy to go for a £2.5k bike but would much prefer to stick to under £1.5k
 
I bought a mountain bike a couple of years ago and have hardly used it. I think the thing which puts me off is that it feels absolutely huge. I'm 6'2" with a 34 inch leg and the bike is a 650b 22" frame. Has anyone else had this feeling? when I measured at the time the online sites were saying the size was fine for me.
 
What bike is it? 22" frame is an XL? You're more a Large, borederline big Medium I'd say.

I'm 6ft, 34/36" Leg and ride Large (albeit with 175mm cranks and a 170mm Reverb)
 
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Ordered a new bike today... Tap tap tap... Come on!! :p:D

It's an XL funnily enough, I'm 6ft 3in and technically on the border between XL and L but for me it's XL every time. Modern bikes have low stand overs and are long, if you can find the geometry on that bike we might be able to tell you why it feels like it does.
 
Funnily I tried an XL santa the other week, and it fitted perfectly. Too small and it would've been a bit cramped. I'm 6ft too.
 
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XL, very long but not too high
it is massive, only just fits on the roof rack,
only ridden it once so far, seems to fit me!
 
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