I see no reason for suspension other than my God given arms and legs. My only bike is the Hunqapillar, which I now have 2.25" Smart Sams on and I love it for whatever I am doing (very biased toward remote dirt and single track. Poke around here for photos, but the Hunqapillar with 50mm touring tires (I switched to the Smart Sams this Winter) for quite technical trails with full bikepacking loads. http://www.flickr.com/photos/32311885@N07/sets
My suggestion is to play with the Hunqapillar and get to know it and learn how to ride trails and grow in that together for a full year or two. At that point you will know the answer to your question. With abandon, Patrick On Tuesday, February 18, 2014 10:48:15 AM UTC-7, David Stein wrote: > > New to the group. Have a Hunq on order. I've seen a number of threads > dancing around this topic (including the recent 'Hunqapillar as a true > mountain bike' thread). Wanted to ask the question a different way, how > many mountain bikes do you own, what are they, and when do you decide to > take which bike out? > > I just got into mountain biking/trail riding after years of road riding > (Bay Area, mostly fire roads for now, some single track). I suck at it. > Trying to get better. Salsa El Mariachi with front suspension. > My interest is in exploring mostly, not necessarily going fast or racing, > but that being said I haven't met a downhill that hasn't resulted in a > crash or three (including the demo ride in Shell Ridge I took the Hunq on). > When I ordered the Hunq the idea was to use it as an all-rounder (mix of > fire roads, light trails, city riding, commuting) and my Salsa El Mariachi > 29er to take on more technical terrain and single track. But after another > couple more harrowing rides, I decided the Salsa wasn't for me and sold it > (I think it was the 29er wheel size that I didn't like, I am short and it > wasn't nimble enough, though maybe it was the general geometry of the > frame). So now, I'm left with the choice of running the Hunq as my only > mountain bike with two sets of wheels (2.1 smart sams on one and 1.75 green > guards on another), or using the Salsa money to buy an additional > singletrack specific bike with front suspension (and using in conjunction > with the Hunq, the ole N+1). Curious to what other people are doing. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
