Are we all overbiked these days?

[ozzybmx]

not an event to be overbiked for

A great event to be running an XC bike with up to 100mm on the front... ridgid is optional, me ! Singlespeed is awesomensser(er)... Was a big day out in the mud. YouYangs... lovely.

Promised the kids a Youies run on the way to Derby 3 times now... always end up fucked up when driving to Melbourne.

 

[Mr Crudley]

Phew..was worried there was a new standard taking over from 26”.

26" plus FTW.

 

[pink poodle]

All this blah blah blah makes me want to bust out to 951.

 

[moorey]

26" plus FTW.

26, plus Fuck the World.
Strong agree.

 

[Paulie_AU]

My 160/150 29er is shit at local boring trail centres hence I have my hardtail. Light trail bike was fun at local trail centres and I am considering turning the hardtail into a 120/130 charger with a frame change. Big bike is awesome at the places that don't officially exist and other proper places like Boomers.

 

[The Duckmeister]

Was a big day out in the mud. YouYangs... lovely.

"Mud" and "Youies" are not words that go together. I have on rare occasions seen water, plenty of it, but never mud.

 

[ozzybmx]

"Mud" and "Youies" are not words that go together.

The mud was the Wombat 100. Youies was dry as, both Kurrajong and stockyards.... would have liked a bigger bike for both.

 

[yuley95]

"Mud" and "Youies" are not words that go together. I have on rare occasions seen water, plenty of it, but never mud.

So true. It can be dry and dust as hell or damp, grippy and yet fast - or flooded and closed down as asbestos rises to the surface...

 

[Mr Crudley]

26, plus Fuck the World.
Strong agree.

Well, we could call it that of For The Win...... I'm not complaining - FTW for the win.

 

[moorey]

Well, we could call it that of For The Win...... I'm not complaining - FTW for the win.

I’ll decide.

 

[The Duckmeister]

The mud was the Wombat 100. Youies was dry as, both Kurrajong and stockyards.... would have liked a bigger bike for both.

Once upon a time I did a very wet 3-hour at Youies, massive puddles in places. Riding behind some dude on a fatbike was a treat, he'd hit a puddle & it was like parting the Red Sea & I'd have a dry channel, it was awesome!

Then I shot across to Wombat for the short-lived 24-hour. That was a mess.

 

[Mr Crudley]

I’ll decide.

Sure, I'll leave it to you. The answer is yes.

 

[ashes_mtb]

I see more people out there overbiked in terms of size, rather than travel.

 

[Daniel Hale]

Then I shot across to Wombat for the short-lived 24-hour. That was a mess.

the first one, perfect weather, the 2nd - disaster, that’s where it ended, but like the redesdale 24, 1 massive storm saw the end of it also

 

[The Duckmeister]

All three 24s I've done were filthy wet, the last one at Forrest (the year before they went back to Redesdale) rained for about 23 hours....

 

[rowdyflat]

While we diverge.
Rosewhite NE Vic was an awesome 12 hr relay race but one year it was so muddy that i had to put the bike in the creeks to wash the chain , on the way , to stop chain suck .
This was in the days of small granny gears and no other way to get up the hills.
Next day took off the chain, it was pitted by small bits of quartz in the granitic mud.

 

[moorey]

Last Brackenbury 50k was enough for me. Headset, BB, chain, cassette...all utterly destroyed by grinding clay slurry.

 

[pink poodle]

But they are fun events right?

 

[slowmick]

Overbiked is so much better than under biked in the dark. Fire trails in the dark with fog and shit lights are down right scary on a hardtail. No chance of single track. On a 165mm/170mm dual suspension bike it's just things going bump in the night...

 

[Daniel Hale]

Last Brackenbury 50k was enough for me. Headset, BB, chain, cassette...all utterly destroyed by grinding clay slurry.

rigid SS 29er here you come, it is rather rude when the sweep rider passes you