No offense, but I'm not convinced that solution really applies all that well to people who live and ride in the sea to sky area, because you can and do access a huge variety of terrain in a single ride.
The type of trails I ride 99% of the time is "all of them". On a 3 hour ride I'll ride pretty equal amounts of fire road climb, technical singletrack climb, flow, and gnar. It's the shore so maybe a bit of a bias to gnar, but still...
That's part of what makes bike selection interesting here. The most common approach is to be super fit and ride a pretty big bike but as smaller bikes get more capable the options expand in terms of what you can realistically ride all trails with, without getting the crap beaten out of you (at least, too badly)
July 26, 2019, 8:36 a.m. - Kenny
No offense, but I'm not convinced that solution really applies all that well to people who live and ride in the sea to sky area, because you can and do access a huge variety of terrain in a single ride. The type of trails I ride 99% of the time is "all of them". On a 3 hour ride I'll ride pretty equal amounts of fire road climb, technical singletrack climb, flow, and gnar. It's the shore so maybe a bit of a bias to gnar, but still... That's part of what makes bike selection interesting here. The most common approach is to be super fit and ride a pretty big bike but as smaller bikes get more capable the options expand in terms of what you can realistically ride all trails with, without getting the crap beaten out of you (at least, too badly)