What's Your Flavour of Bike For The Trail? - Video

 I don't think I'll ever give up my 26" stylus. So much capability and stoke

 Well, he might have had suspension grips.

 So which bike was he riding?

 @robjames: He rode the Stylus 27.5 for the EWS (orange bike in video) & the Rootdown BA (Blue bike in video).

 @mike-gamble: cool thanks

 I know, right? Already looking for my biking shorts lol. Nothing gets you pumped up to go ride like the Chromag videos

 Hell yeah! One of the best vids all year, IMO. Wicked soundtrack!

 Building mine up tonight. Fizzing!

 @samoooli: You're gonna love it, and building it up you'll be so much more attached to it than an off the shelf bike. Be sure to name her, she'll get you through a lot.

 @AverageAdventurer: Her names Maggy (original I know..) Pic in my profile!

 @samoooli: Love it, sweet build. Suzie for mine, Remi for my girlfriends

 @samoooli: That is one nice bike dream build love it.

 looks a little like Pemberton, BC? just a wild guess though.

 Blue bike is Sproatt in Whistler Red Bike is Pemberton

 The only way to know is to try one yourself.

 Riding a hardtail through gnarly terrain feels like truckin´ a Prius through 3 feet of powder; you just have to hold on, go straight, never mind the rear end, and keep haulin´

 @JimmyGrand: So True!

 @JimmyGrand:

Not in my experience..riding a hard tail requires a more concerted analysis of terrain and line choice. cant just huck and plow through the same stuff you ride on your full suspension.

@nvranka

i see youre from the LBC...really a hardtail is very capable for a lot of the socal trails..with exception of some of the rockier OC / San Gabriels mtn trails. hardtails are plenty fun..they're not slow once you get used to it. granted, we're talking modern hardtails...the ol skool hardtails are indeed rough on the body.

 @ledude:

Your right, it certainly requires a different level of precision to ride a hardtail, but no matter how precise and analytical you are with your line choice, it seems to me, that riding a hardtail will always feel faster and more rowdy the riding a full-suspension bike. In reality I´m well aware that it isn´t faster, and you can certainly allow your self to be more rowdy on a fully, but the sensation of speed and gnarliness sure isn´t the same.

I´ve ridden hardtails my whole life, and only tried full-suspension bikes on rare occasions, my local terrain simply doesn´t justify a full-suspension, and that´s why I choose to ride a hardtails.

 @JimmyGrand:

I started on full suspension bikes...then recently in the past 2 years started riding hardtails to the point where my hardtail is my primary sled. Less margin for error, but certainly just as fun!

 @ledude:

Hardtails are unreal, hitting the perfect line on a hardtail certainly takes planning and precision, but when it happens, it feels like mountainbiking.

 @nvranka how have you never ridden a hardtail? What was your first bike? If it wasn't a handrail you're doing something wrong. You need to ride a hardtail to some extent mate you're missing out.

 If you've ever ridden a bmx then you know why. It's just good ol fashioned fun.

 I would have thought everyone starts out on a hardtail. I tried my first full suspension bike like a month ago and was blown away by how well it rips through everything with insane traction, when normally I would have been skipping around on my hardtail. But I still like the fact that if you're on a good line, the hardtail is just as fun if not more satisfying.

 Hardtails: seat of the pants fast, but maybe not Strava fast.

 I tend to go slower on my hardtail and focus on flow and creative lines. I feel like it's fun in a totally different way and maybe a little less chance of wrecking since I'm not as tempted to just straight line everything super fast.

 @redshift: Same here. On the full squish, I feel like I can just monster truck through stupid lines and roll off drops with no fear of what I'm going to land on, where as on the hardtail I'd be picking my way along, hard on the brakes and/or bouncing all over the place. But on the hardtail the climbs feel really efficient and I love how in control and... I dunno, "lossless" it feels on twisty, jumpy flow trails.

 4:20

 Ha! Didn't have a blue shirt. Dang!

 No cable cams were harmed in the making of this vid, all long shots are running shots with a gimbal.

 @mike-gamble: well done!

 @mike-gamble: very nice

 @bradwalton: Cheers.

 Cheers Love.

 the first bike has a dropper

 Which part of that looked awkward. That guy was on a tear.

 I fully respect your opinion, but you're dead wrong. End of.

 @thenotoriousmic: The extra effort to move the wheels laterally?

@adrock-whistler: um...ok? Doesnt change the fact it appears to be awkward to me... I wasnt trying to hate, I'm just trying to understand the 29er phenomenon, and decide whether it has place in my life.

 @meltboro: you just adjust the gearing to compensate.