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Are the grips 30mm diameter?

Let's see that drivetrain review, and get the Microshift Advent 9-speed in the mix too!

(Please)

I want my next drivetrain to be 9-speed, wide-range and cheap!

Thats a nice parts selection right there, gets a pretentious knowing nod from me.  

I'd almost be bummed to have to take some of that stuff off to test other parts...

Fenders on a mountain bike generally look freaking terrible.

I run three in the winter.  

Life is better when you're dryer, cleaner and don't care what people think of your look.

Yeah, this sport would be so much better if you didn’t have to pedal or worry about the terrain.

I mean, is it even "growing the sport" if it's not even the same sport anymore?

What’s missing (and what’s so good about mountain mopeds) is that segways and hover boards don’t replicate walking very well. They’re just boring ways to roll slowly and easily. Something that lets you walk, but with some help, would be awesome for the injured/disabled and folks who want to move faster.  Would have saved me a bunch of grief when I was laid up if I could feel like I could walk like a normal person.

Edit: yahs edited his post while I typed mine. Post deleted.

So ableist if you to assume that everyone who uses an exoskeleton to walk is lazy. What about the people who are genuinely disabled?  Aren’t they entitled to chips too?  Everyone is entitled to everything, don’t ya know?

I think the strength of people’s reaction to this term is hilarious. 

If mountain mopeds are actually electric mountain bikes than we’re going to need a term to differentiate the two. Guitars come in electric and acoustic, everyone know what it means, so hey, why not use the term for mountain bikes too?  

I know acoustic technically refers to sound but none of y’all who object to the term has suggested an alternative. Besides, to borrow some reasoning from the mountain moped advocates - it seems the train has left the station here, time to get on board!

I’m sure Specialized and Trek will tell us what’s right, they seem to have a firm grasp on the future  mountain bikers want🙄

Dude said he liked it. I liked the way it looked, other than that I don’t know anything really. I didn’t bother to try it out, his was a longer travel bike than I’m looking for. 

If a 1994 Kona Hot makes you nostalgic, the look of it is spot on. Personally I like the idea of a FS bike that can be easily repaired/modified.

NOW THATS WHAT I’M TALKING ABOUT!

Posted by: Vikb

Posted by: tashi

Yeah the Murmor is close, although when I looked last it was more than that by a bit, something like $2800 before whatever duties I’d incurr with shock. EDIT: 1800 pounds = $3000 CDN!

Frame is 1475 UK pounds less 20% VAT we don't have to pay in Canada = 1180 UK pounds = $2005 CAD at today's exchange without shock.

Minus 20% you say?

Veryyyyyy interesting...

Edit: I don’t think it’s correct though. I changed my address to France, and VAT was applied. Leads me to believe the 1475 pound price is already without VAT.

Posted by: Vikb

Posted by: thaaad

I'll be really shocked if it's that cheap.

I guess it depends if they make it in Taiwan or Canada. As a comparison a UK Starling Cycles steel Murmur FS 29er [Taiwan rear triangle and UK built front triangle] is $2052CAD without a shock.

Yeah the Murmor is close, although when I looked last it was more than that by a bit, something like $2800 before whatever duties I’d incurr with shock. EDIT: 1800 pounds = $3000 CDN!

I doubt that the Cdn. Made part of the equation is a possibly at that price point, but what little economics training I have tells me that when everyone’s frames cost the exact same ($2500 for Aluminum, $3500 for carbon) there’s some room for the price to go down.

In my case I’m comparing a Hightower with some love from my LBS vs something else direct at full retail. It would have to be something very special AND cost competitive to have me give up shop support in a frame.

I rode with a guy on a Cotic recently, my steel frame boner is real becoming very persuasive.

Posted by: Kenny

I hope it's a huge beast with doctahawk geometry, simply so I'm not tempted to buy it.

If they make something with around 110-120mm of super progressive rear suspension and reasonable head tube, like 65 or so, my wallet will be dead. Like basically a super hardtail. Ugh I hope that's not what it is. It's be like a $6000 tractor beam.. lol

Plus one to this.

Give me a bike with somewhere between 120-140mm travel, and a nice simple aesthetic in steel or aluminum and a “reasonable” price tag an I’m all in. Cdn made Starling or Cotic that costs $2500 please!

I had a frame mounted pump fill with water and dirt so I made a little condom for it.

Take a section of tube (hybrid size worked well for that pump) a bit longer than the pump, use a zap strap to close one end, flip inside out, slide pump in, fold over the excess and secure with an elastic or something and you’re good.

I think my oneup is still good without one but I haven’t been on the bike as much this winter. It’ll get a condom too. 

Re: weight. All that stuff will be on the bike anyway, I’m guessing the total is actually lower than if all the tools and pump were separate items.

Pretty sure I got the bigger one. Tools and pump have been useable so far, although I haven’t used everything, including the CO2 inflator. Very high quality feel to the whole thing, although expensive pumps aren’t ALWAYS good (cough cough Lezyne). 

I really like having everything in a tidy package that’s always on the bike. I strap a tiny seat bag with tube, plugs and a tire lever to my frame and my bike is always ready to go.

Posted by: DemonMike

Posted by: tashi

Posted by: xy9ine

frame looks sick. tho price ($4k) is a bit steep. cool to see more high end alu options out there though.

The US price is $2137 apparently, I guess it'll depend on where ours end up coming from.  The US price makes sense, the Euro price is bonkers to me.

I'd really like a 140mm version of that thing...

Euro price might include the VAT.

Whatever the tax situation (it's included in the EU price, not the US), I sure aren't part of their market at that price.

Posted by: xy9ine

frame looks sick. tho price ($4k) is a bit steep. cool to see more high end alu options out there though.

The US price is $2137 apparently, I guess it'll depend on where ours end up coming from.  The US price makes sense, the Euro price is bonkers to me.

I'd really like a 140mm version of that thing...

Posted by: syncro

Don't you people have any concern from an enviro standpoint of using CO2 cartridges just to save a few seconds?

No.