Mountain Biking

rhysduck · 29 Sep 2020 at 21:30

iMacMart said:
Oh that would Help?? (sorry) 70% trail and 30% road

So depending on how important you view the road riding part of it I'd look at these combo's:

Front: Minion SS
Rear: Racing Ralph

or

Front: Magic Mary
Rear: Nobby Nic

The MM/NN combo is what I run on my hard tail and it's perfect for everything I ride. The Racing Ralph combo will have slightly better rolling resistance and may feel a bit faster for the road.

It's a trade off between rolling resistance for the road (and trail) and grip (for the trail).

iMacMart · 29 Sep 2020 at 21:45

rhysduck said:
So depending on how important you view the road riding part of it I'd look at these combo's:

Front: Minion SS
Rear: Racing Ralph

or

Front: Magic Mary
Rear: Nobby Nic

The MM/NN combo is what I run on my hard tail and it's perfect for everything I ride. The Racing Ralph combo will have slightly better rolling resistance and may feel a bit faster for the road.

It's a trade off between rolling resistance for the road (and trail) and grip (for the trail).

Thanks for this, and I can google and find stockists?

Begbie · 29 Sep 2020 at 21:56

iMacMart said:
Thanks for this, and I can google and find stockists?

Yeah. Maxxis sell direct. Sometimes some eh places are much cheaper. Bike-discount etc. Though the faster rolling tyre, the more fun on the less techy more trail centre stuff.

rhysduck · 30 Sep 2020 at 11:48

iMacMart said:
Thanks for this, and I can google and find stockists?

Umm. yeah..

New bike day is always awesome

This arrived yesterday. 2 weeks to the day after ordering.

meh? · 30 Sep 2020 at 12:05

meh? said:
My Vitus Mythique 29 VRX should be here this week and I can't wait

4 hours and counting

exciting times

DereksDontRun · 30 Sep 2020 at 14:33

rhysduck said:
Umm. yeah..

New bike day is always awesome
This arrived yesterday. 2 weeks to the day after ordering.

oo, ace! which one?

love my jeffsy. It's arguably getting on a little now (just over 4 years old) but I can't see any need to change it yet... (but, quite tempted to change to a coil shock if we're ever allowed to travel easily again and I fancy a trip to the alps)

DereksDontRun · 30 Sep 2020 at 14:51

iMacMart said:
Oh that would Help?? (sorry) 70% trail and 30% road

No but I plan to tape them once I change the tyers over (And sorry yes tubeless ready rims)

rhysduck said:
So depending on how important you view the road riding part of it I'd look at these combo's:

Front: Minion SS
Rear: Racing Ralph

or

Front: Magic Mary
Rear: Nobby Nic

The MM/NN combo is what I run on my hard tail and it's perfect for everything I ride. The Racing Ralph combo will have slightly better rolling resistance and may feel a bit faster for the road.

It's a trade off between rolling resistance for the road (and trail) and grip (for the trail).

I was going to suggest Maxis Agressor, but they seem quite costly for the 29er size (ie not on sale).

For a different (budget-friendly) option - how about WTB Trail Boss front and rear?
https://www.chainreactioncycles.com/wtb-trail-boss-tough-fast-rolling-tt-tyre/rp-prod175880 for black (only 2 left in stock)
https://www.chainreactioncycles.com/wtb-trail-boss-2-4-light-fast-rolling-tyre/rp-prod175876 for fancy tan-wall

under £30 each atm, so a pretty good price. (and find something for £15+ from the clearance section and you can get a £10 off with the code "clear2020" - https://www.chainreactioncycles.com/clearance )

my old Whyte T130 came with Trail Boss for the rear and it's a quick rolling good tyre, but not amazing in wet mud.

or maxxis ardent's if you want a bit more winter-friendly fast rolling tyre?
https://www.chainreactioncycles.com/maxxis-ardent-mtb-tyre-exo-tr-/rp-prod149591

Begbie · 30 Sep 2020 at 16:32

rhysduck said:
Umm. yeah..

New bike day is always awesome
This arrived yesterday. 2 weeks to the day after ordering.

Oh what did you get? I nearly ordered one myself, except no stock

meh? · 30 Sep 2020 at 16:53

New bike day

first one in 15 years !!

wow the box was big

Can't wait to ride it tomorrow

mrk · 30 Sep 2020 at 22:11

So black and red

FireTwo · 30 Sep 2020 at 22:17

rhysduck said:
Umm. yeah..

New bike day is always awesome
This arrived yesterday. 2 weeks to the day after ordering.

please be a ebike!

rhysduck · 30 Sep 2020 at 22:38

DereksDontRun said:
oo, ace! which one?

love my jeffsy. It's arguably getting on a little now (just over 4 years old) but I can't see any need to change it yet... (but, quite tempted to change to a coil shock if we're ever allowed to travel easily again and I fancy a trip to the alps)

Begbie said:
Oh what did you get? I nearly ordered one myself, except no stock

Jeffsy 27.5 Pro Race. God she's lovely!!

Was due to wait till Feb for the new 2021 models but as luck would have it I was browsing the website 2 weeks ago and saw it was in stock :O quickly bought it without hesitation... it went to out of stock before I completed the order so thinking they only had a few or I was just lucky! Took 2 weeks to the day to arrive, not bad!

FireTwo said:
please be a ebike!

Absolutely NO chance.

Edit: TV looks bloody tiny next to the Jeffsy.

DereksDontRun · 30 Sep 2020 at 23:07

rhysduck said:
Jeffsy 27.5 Pro Race. God she's lovely!!

Was due to wait till Feb for the new 2021 models but as luck would have it I was browsing the website 2 weeks ago and saw it was in stock :O quickly bought it without hesitation... it went to out of stock before I completed the order so thinking they only had a few or I was just lucky! Took 2 weeks to the day to arrive, not bad!

Absolutely NO chance.

Edit: TV looks bloody tiny next to the Jeffsy.

that's ace. I've got the cf pro and find it ace, if a little worried about all the warnings for CF frames and crash damage in the manual. At the time the Race Pro was about £450 more, so "settled" for the Pro, then ~2 weeks after getting my bike YT won the World Cup so dropped the price of the Race Pro to match the Pro - it was a little annoying, especially as I had already used mine so couldn't return/swap. But, saying that, performance/price for the bike is fantastic...

Over the years, I think the frame/bike is a little more burly, but I'm still slowly upgrading mine... I trashed one of the e13 rims, so now swapped to Hope Fortus... I've just got (today) a Charger 2.1 and 2021 Debonair upgrade, to effectively change the 160mm Yari on my hardtail to a modern Lyrik, so that will move over to the Jeffsy - and keep looking at a 230x65 coil to change the rear to 160mm too... Thinking about it, I got G2 RSC brakes when I built my hardtail, so I could swap them over to the Jeffsy too, but atm (amazingly) the original Guide RSCs seem to be working well.

Begbie · 30 Sep 2020 at 23:28

rhysduck said:
Jeffsy 27.5 Pro Race. God she's lovely!!

Was due to wait till Feb for the new 2021 models but as luck would have it I was browsing the website 2 weeks ago and saw it was in stock :O quickly bought it without hesitation... it went to out of stock before I completed the order so thinking they only had a few or I was just lucky! Took 2 weeks to the day to arrive, not bad!

Absolutely NO chance.

Edit: TV looks bloody tiny next to the Jeffsy.

All the kashima bling! Looks awesome. All this new bike is making me jealous!

It's the chair that looks tiny!

{SAS}TB · 30 Sep 2020 at 23:29

rhysduck said:
Jeffsy 27.5 Pro Race. God she's lovely!!

Was due to wait till Feb for the new 2021 models but as luck would have it I was browsing the website 2 weeks ago and saw it was in stock :O quickly bought it without hesitation... it went to out of stock before I completed the order so thinking they only had a few or I was just lucky! Took 2 weeks to the day to arrive, not bad!

Absolutely NO chance.

Edit: TV looks bloody tiny next to the Jeffsy.

Very nice

meh? · 1 Oct 2020 at 08:00

Very nice bike that is

rhysduck · 1 Oct 2020 at 10:42

Thanks guys! She's lovely. Light too compared to my steel Shan hardtail

Waiting for invisiframe to arrive before I take her out!

Begbie · 1 Oct 2020 at 11:20

rhysduck said:
Thanks guys! She's lovely. Light too compared to my steel Shan hardtail

Waiting for invisiframe to arrive before I take her out!

The most exciting part about it is, you can fit a water bottle in the traingle

rhysduck · 1 Oct 2020 at 12:27

Haha I've got a bottle mount on the Shan as I'll be using that more this winter in the evenings probably... And that the YT bottle mount was stupid expensive!

Begbie said:
The most exciting part about it is, you can fit a water bottle in the traingle

Begbie · 1 Oct 2020 at 13:51

rhysduck said:
Haha I've got a bottle mount on the Shan as I'll be using that more this winter in the evenings probably... And that the YT bottle mount was stupid expensive!

Can't on the Aeris. Can't wait for the new bike.

Yeah it is silly expensive, you can buy from 3rd parties though still not cheap!