What's happening with Freeride and "Park" bikes

Since last two years I started realizing that the big bike brands are stopping doing Freeride and "park" bikes, and focus more on high performance All Mountain/Enduro Bikes, and those carbon things. Since then, I didn't find any "Do it all" bikes(except Banshee Darkside), like transition bottlerocket, intese SS and Banshee Wildcard. I could only find All mountain bikes, that I think its not to versatile like the "old" freeride bikes. I am the only one who miss Freeride and "park" bikes?

Sorry for my bad english.:brazil:

You probably are. The new bikes are pretty incredible in that they can pedal and descend well

Times change. Pick any of the new generation AM bikes and it'll do anything your Bottlerocket could do except that it can also climb.

"Freeride" was a niche market. AM bikes very light and capable now and many perform admirably, if not perfectly for "freeride". "Park Bikes", as I understand it are the flagship bikes of various brands that are ridden by sponsored DH racers on the UCI World Cup circuit.

How about the 650B Specialized Enduro Evo? 65 degree HTA, coil shock, throw a Fox 36 170/180 on there or X-Fusion…

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all those young guys who would huck their meat at the drop of a hat are now old fucks

all those young guys who would huck their meat at the drop of a hat are now old fucks

I resemble that remark!

wow that was a blatant troll but it worked eh?

but seriously those big bikes were not that rideable, unless you could hit whistler/SP/SS every weekend the big bike sits around so something inbetween makes more sense, specially when you got commitments … the C word

How many wheelie dorpz 2 fault of substantial height are people doing in a week these days?

Besides the Enduro Evo the Trek Session Park is the other bike I can think of.

Many modern 6" bikes will slay the buff jump trails and jsut need a lil more finesse on the tech trails.

Yep, Freeride is dead because the the old fucks are broken. And new school are too smart for big lines… pedal up for lame ass golden berms, 7k carbon boost to get you down, wtf??

wow that was a blatant troll but it worked eh?

but seriously those big bikes were not that rideable, unless you could hit whistler/SP/SS every weekend the big bike sits around so something inbetween makes more sense, specially when you got commitments … the C word

I really think that. Downhill bikes are not rideable for people like me, its so hard to go to the track pedaling, but the Freeride bikes are more rideable, and it's perfect for the trails on Brazil

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Kona Process really looks nice, someone already tested this bike?what the price?

Kona Process really looks nice, someone already tested this bike?what the price?

i,m awaiting one , they list for $5500cdn