What are the most underrated and most overrated things in mountain biking?

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Halo1

Likes Bikes and Dirt
Underrated
Fat bikes
9 speed drive train

Overrated
Plus tyres - Never go half fat when you can go full fat.
Super Wide bars - the wider the bars the more trees being cut :-(
 
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oliosky

Likes Bikes and Dirt
Underrated
- ESI foam grips for all riding disciplines
- Building your own bike up from scratch
- Aluminium frames
- Using a decent semi slick as a rear tire
- Sunrace cassettes
- Customising your current bike to suit your own requirements with reach adjust/angleset headsets and offset bushings
- Riding in the mud
- 29" wheeled hardtails with a slack ish head angle
- Night riding

Overrated
- carbon fibre parts apart from handlebars
- Removable chin bar helmets
- The use of the term "loam" and "shred"
- Bike parks
- 26" wheels
 
moorey

moorey

call me Mia
oliosky said:
Underrated.
- Building your own bike up from scratch
- Aluminium frames
- Using a decent semi slick as a rear tire
- Customising your current bike to suit your own requirements with reach adjust/angleset headsets and offset bushings
- Night riding

Overrated
- carbon fibre parts apart from handlebars
- Removable chin bar helmets
- The use of the term "loam" and "shred"
- Bike parks
- 26" wheels
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A solid list with minor editing.
Loam in Aus just really isn’t a thing. My one experience riding true loam in NZ was sublime.
Carbon bars are the WORST of carbon Imho.
26” overrated though? Ease up turbo! :eek:

Overall, I give you a pass otherwise.
 
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oliosky

Likes Bikes and Dirt
moorey said:
A solid list with minor editing.
Loam in Aus just really isn’t a thing. My one experience riding true loam in NZ was sublime.
Carbon bars are the WORST of carbon Imho.
26” overrated though? Ease up turbo! :eek:

Overall, I give you a pass otherwise.
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Thanks?
 
scblack

scblack

Leucocholic
moorey said:
Carbon bars are the WORST of carbon Imho.
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For MTB no way on the planet would I use carbon bars.

For road bike, I do have carbon bars for sure. Different loads for different riding though.

On my Chinarello roadie I built up, I had carbon bars. The stem connection area was a rough grey carbon finish for better grip/surface contact, a very different colour to the gloss black finish. So I colured in the grey section with a black Pentel permanent marker. I rode that bike for 18months with zero problems. Replaced it with my current roadie ( a real one). A year or so after that I built up a $50 ex warranty Avanti frame as my wet weather roadie. Went to put on those carbon bars - my finger pushed quite easily through the carbon that was coloured in. Pooped my pants I did. I guess the oils or whatever it is in the marker weakened the carbon over time. It was roughly 2.5years those bars had the marker ink on the grey section. Does this sound plausible to anyone?
 
Binaural

Binaural

Eats Squid
Overrated
Big wheels
Carbon wheels
Singlespeed
Chain Reaction / Wiggle
Super wide bars / finger breakers

Underrated
Riding MTB to work occasionally, just because
Titanium
Following fireroads at random and seeing where you end up
Infuriating short climbs you only make 1 in 4 times
Low-speed technical drops
Taking bike when you travel
 
Tubbsy

Tubbsy

Packin' a small bird
Staff member
uncle grumpy said:
What I don't get is pious moderator types who jump on the eBike board pontificating how eBike v non-eBike is like road v MTB or clips v flats arguments and there's room for both so shut it.

Nothing like getting slapped across the face by the long dick of irony. :)
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While I like the image of slapping someone across the face with a long dick of irony, the e-Bike issue was a bit more nuanced than that.

Nobody has to agree and a bit of banter is fine.

It's multiple account holders stirring up shit that turned that particular pendulum.
 
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