I own two bikes total. My 14 year old 26" wheeled Atlantis and my new Ibis full suspension Mojo HD. I have bad carpal tunnel, knees and back issues (12 surgeries). From now on it will be full suspension only off road. If I do any road tours, it will be the Atlantis. My Atlantis with 2.35" tires at 20 lbs worked OK off road on smoothish trails.
I am a retro grouch to a point. Watching cogsets grow from 5 speed to 11 is pretty funny. I heard somewhere that Shimano has a patented 15 speed cogset, with fully operational derailleurs, chain and cranksets designed. They just add one more cog every so many years, to get people to buy the newest, cool stuff. For years it was all about trying to get the smallest jumps between cogs. 11-12-13-etc.... Now Sram has a one chainring tranny and bigger jumps between gears (11-42), which is now the coolest stuff. Only $380.00 for a cogset! What a deal! Planned obsoleteness is irritating. Bikes were figured out a long time ago.. On Tuesday, February 18, 2014 9:48:15 AM UTC-8, 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.
