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So I'm parking the 110 for a while and I want to get a mountain bike for exercise and I need some suggestions...
Full suspension and disk brakes are a must.
Im an intermediate level mx'er and could handle myself on a BMX bike back in the day,and I plan on riding trails, but nothing like gnarly downhill.
What would you suggest I buy? I'd like to keep it under $2,500 if possible, preferably around $1500 which I know will be difficult since I want decent suspension.
Full suspension and disk brakes are a must.
Im an intermediate level mx'er and could handle myself on a BMX bike back in the day,and I plan on riding trails, but nothing like gnarly downhill.
What would you suggest I buy? I'd like to keep it under $2,500 if possible, preferably around $1500 which I know will be difficult since I want decent suspension.
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26ers are more agile and easier to accelerate, but 29ers maintain their speed, go faster on long straights and are easier to balance to me. I have one of both and never ride the 26. To each their own. You could get a little bit of both worlds and go 27.5.
But if you're definitively going to get a fully suspended, look at the Specialized Stumpjumper FSR Comp, and the FSR Exper, or the Santa Cruz Superlight. They all get good reviews and are in your price range.
Trek ex 7 is your bike. I went with the 29 because it was on sale because they were rolling out 27.5 27.5 seems to be the new trend in mtb.
I have both a single speed 29er hardtail, and a full squish dh rig. The ss 29er gets used the most. Raced a handful of Super D's with it, and have commuted on it. Super versatile and fun bike.
Happy Riding.
Ill check out this pinkbike...
You guys are referring to the 26er and 29er...what brand is that?
And to the helpful guy who referred me to vitalmtb... Thanks for taking the time to contribute nothing. I don't want to talk to mountain bikers... I wanna talk to mxers.
Pit Row
boom, here you go....
http://www.pinkbike.com/buysell/1903480/
Phil Atwill: Crushing It from Tom Caldwell on Vimeo.
https://youtu.be/WPVRU7jSYkQ
My advice, definitely get full-susp, especially if you are only going to have 1 bike. Full suspension can do it all, but hardtails really suck when the trail gets rough. Nothing is more annoying than listening to the chain slap around as the bike skitters all over rough rocks and your back gets the piss beat out of it. And the full suspension bikes are so good now that you really give up almost nothing to a hardtail on the climbs.
If you are a decent MX rider, I will assume you will be like me. I tend to ride a mtb like I'm riding an MX bike... looking for crap to jump off and always expecting the back end to soak everything up. Basically I tend to override the thing and expect more of it than I should. Probably why I am not too fond of hardtails.
The Trek Fuel-EX pictured above is an awesome all around bike. It does everything really well. Climbs great but has enough suspension to handle pretty gnarly descents. I also tested the Niner Jet and was pretty impressed with how well it did on downhills for a relatively lightly suspended bike.
I've become a big fan of the Sram 1x11 drivetrains lately. The simplicity is awesome and they've gotten really dialed recently.
I prefer 29" as we have lots of rocks and rough stuff around here and the 29 rolls through better. I don't mind 27.5 too much but 26 is pretty much antiquated at this point and feels like riding a bike you borrowed from a 9 yr old kid.
At your pricepoint you would definitely have to buy used to get on a decent full-susp bike.
He does live in Spearfish after all.
Where we are it's tight twisty single track stuff with ALOT of trees, narrow switch backs, some high speed stuff but best suited for a hard tail. I have a really good bike that I picked up on CL, not abused, 110 fork, added a few quality parts and for less than $1000.00 I'm out there. I love my bike.
A $2500.00 budget will get you a lot of bike if you pay attention.
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