Recommend me a mountain bike!

[Drako]

What is everyones preferences for helmets? Since we're on the subject...I'm going to need a new one soon.

I like Bell Helmets - they seem to fit my knobby head the best. :biggrin:

 

[JulesMaximus]

anyone here like downtube shifters?

:biggrin: Not even on road bikes. Definitely not on a mountain bike.

I've had them on bikes I've owned (old bikes) and I've ridden road bikes with downtube shifters for years, hell decades, but there is absolutely no reason I would want them for any reason other than to keep a classic bike as original as possible.

 

[7window]

Have to give props to cyclist. I pass 2 of them going up 20% hill. Four miles down the road I am sitting on traffice and the two cyclist going up hill just passed me.

One young guy and the other is about mid 50's

 

[rh71]

:biggrin: Not even on road bikes. Definitely not on a mountain bike.

I've had them on bikes I've owned (old bikes) and I've ridden road bikes with downtube shifters for years, hell decades, but there is absolutely no reason I would want them for any reason other than to keep a classic bike as original as possible.

you sound like you've had a lot of bikes in the past.. what do you do with all the old ones? Do they sell well used?

 

[JulesMaximus]

you sound like you've had a lot of bikes in the past.. what do you do with all the old ones? Do they sell well used?

I've owned 4 decent road bikes in my lifetime. First one I owned for almost 10 years when it was stolen from me. The second I bought to replace the first. I owned that for more than 10 years and then sold it to buy a more modern bike (wish I kept it really). I have 2 road bikes currently and they are both keepers, I'll probably not replace them for a long time despite the fact that I don't ride them very much anymore.

I have 1 mountain bike. I had one prior that I bought in 1997 and sold in the mid-2000s.

No, bikes don't typically sell well used.

 

[JulesMaximus]

Nice bike. Large seems a little much for 5'11". I sized myself for my road bike. After enough riding you tend to know how you want it to fit. Those bike shops don't care generally and will put you on whatever they can get you to buy. You can run into some honest shops that won't put you on just anything. It sounds like they just threw you on that bike because that's what they had.

By the way, I ride a medium in a road bike or a 55-56.

One thing I was kind of surprised by is the 175mm crank arms. Both my road bikes are 172.5 but from what I'm seeing pretty much all mtb are 175.