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This is dumb for mountain biking, but it would be awesome for winter fatbiking. When I did a lot of Fatbiking my hands were always cold below about -10C because gripping the bar makes my circulation worse in my fingers, and I am pretty cold resistant during a Manitoba Winter (less so when I am on Van Isle in winter). Winter fatbiking/ snowshoeing trails ride better when it is really cold (you wreck them when it is warm). I would probably get this if I still did a ton of winter fatbiking in Northern MB. - For those of you knocking it, there are actually some pretty fun trails with short steep hills, curves and even jumps to hit, its better than summer when many of those trails have sections to wet to be fun.

Mtn biking and fishing, offroading and working on jeeps, are my main reasons for living on Van Isle - saltwater and flyfishing (and saltwater flyfishing when viable) I also used to play a lot of rugby. I have an old Demo (2010?) with a Rock Shox Totem that still works well. In summer 2014 I broke the frame on my Hei Hei and put a wider Cassette, smaller chainring, and a taller seatpost (not a dropper) on the Demo, and rode it for everything all summer. It is heavy and like pedaling a sofa so it was a lot of work to keep up with people I rode with. Broke my Hei Hei April 2024 (basically the only original parts were one brake lever and bars - 3rd new frame) - split my riding between my steel hardtail Honzo and the same Demo - now my oldness made riding to the top brutally slower and harder. But the sad part is that I think I was actually slower down as well, not really sure why - perhaps I played with the setup and it was working differently and I just didn't get it to where I liked it (I used to think it was awesome going down).

Well I really don't know if 36" wheels or 32' even are the thing, but if I wasn't funding limited I'd be willing to try. I have never had a bike that wasn't sort of too small (I am only 195cm). In general bikes are made mostly for mini - people and people under 200lbs. If you aren't large and tall this won't be for you ... for all of you that had to exaggerate on your dating profile this is not for you.

It's tough to really judge in the video, but I have clipped a lot of trees in my time, broken a lot of stuff, but that was quite a fold. It seems like maybe a fairly weak point in the frame. In the 90s I had a GT Karakoram. It did not have a weak frame. It had shitty rear brakes (horseshoe rim brakes with braze on mounts that didn't allow regular v-brakes) and came with biopace chainrings, but it endured my clydesdale body and poor bike handling. I still had it as a singlespeed when I lived in Mexico. I gave it away when I left 2006. I like "Aaron Always Chickens Out" - that's me on big jumps - but then I still crash

I have a (I think) 2009 Demo which looks just like the one in the article... except turd brown with Rock shox Totem single crown. I threw a new bearing in the bottom bracket, replaced the front brake I had cannibalized of it, and rode it Tuesday. Normally a quick session is 4-5 laps at "Lapland" - the Demo is pretty heavy and not super pedal friendly - 3 laps was enough. The best part was that I was probably slower going down than on my 2015 Honzo hardtail I am riding a lot lately, as I hadn't ridden the Demo in so long (more than a year) and its "couch on wheels" suspension took some refamiliarizing. I bought it used in about 2012 - but at the time I really wanted a Stinky

52 did not quite have it. Luckily it was a pretty low impact finish.

hey yes those were like actual jeans shorts not cut offs or something - nice choice!

about 50k south of Campbell River

This is an idiotic poll - you basically have to use whatever the bike industry has chosen to mostly use for any particular measurement - 2.5 " tires, 40mm stems, 120mm of suspension travel and a 30lb bike whatever!

We have a few bikes between my partner my daughter and I. MXS DHF&R on 3, MXS ardent on my wife's HeiHei, I have a Mountain King on the back of my Kona Honzo. I was going to comment that the Mtn King is terrible for cornering and braking in comparison to the DHF/R tires but then I noticed it is closing in on totally bald - so I guess a bit unfair comparison. It has also had by far the most flats - but I guess that might be related to being on the back of my hardtail at 6'4" 285lb. I still have a 26' Farmer John and a 26" panaracer smoke and dart (I assume they are rock hard) but each of those were the hot setup at one point. The Farmer John in the mid - late 80s I think. I upgraded my Fuji to them pretty soon after I got it. I had some full on MX looking knobbies on my GT Karakoram for a while early 90s, they were actually pretty bad, noticeably slow and noticeable squiggly cornering on moderately firm trails Tires generally are pretty good now, but as with most things, you can actually have a lot of fun on anything you get out on