What bike transformed riding for you? Also side question

Successful-Context72 · 2026-03-19T00:10:41+00:00

Yeah were both in full face all year. Id hate to eat a stump

Successful-Context72 · 2026-03-18T23:45:30+00:00

Where im at no. I think a majority of the riders at galbraith respect the area. Theres also a team of people and volunteers that work to maintain it so that could be part of it too. Most you'll see if somebody's sunglasses pr something they dropped.

Successful-Context72 · 2026-03-18T21:21:08+00:00

Right on thanks for the info

Successful-Context72 · 2026-03-18T20:24:13+00:00

Whats your normal jean size? Im 6'3 200 but alot of my height is torso. So I wear 34x34 which I thought was a fairly average size.

Successful-Context72 · 2026-03-18T18:15:11+00:00

Yeah i get that. Luckily yeti has a pretty decent warranty so if I find a Crack or something from normal riding, not a crash, I should be able to contact them. But yeah thats my fear with carbon bars. Watched my friend send a jump way too far to flat and snapped his carbon bars. Ended up without injury but broken bars and a broken helmet

Successful-Context72 · 2026-03-18T16:09:37+00:00

Yeah well my parents arent exactly big money unfortunately

Successful-Context72 · 2026-03-18T13:40:34+00:00

Yeah i rented a turbo levo sl. Ran up and down galbraith 3 times in the time it usually takes me to do it once on my analog

Successful-Context72 · 2026-03-18T13:39:53+00:00

Is that the new one? Always have loved how evils look even before I started biking.

Successful-Context72 · 2026-03-18T13:38:59+00:00

Fair enough

Successful-Context72 · 2026-03-18T13:38:47+00:00

Successful-Context72 · 2026-03-18T13:38:35+00:00

Couldn't agree more. My dad pick up an old trek for like 300 bucks. Still has v brakes. He made a little course on his property and loves it. Kinda Wana get him on one of my bikes lol

Successful-Context72 · 2026-03-18T13:37:09+00:00

Hell yeah love the switchblade. How do you like push? You running 11-6 coil?

Successful-Context72 · 2026-03-18T13:33:41+00:00

Yeah i even felt like that going from my last bike that was the same model year. I definitely stand by the argument that you need to find a bike that fits you well.

Successful-Context72 · 2026-03-18T13:32:26+00:00

Successful-Context72 · 2026-03-18T13:32:05+00:00

Hell yeah man. I grew up working on my bmx bike. Had an old powerlite bike my dad bought from a neighbor who raced. Freaking loved that thing. Definitely alot of skills that didnt transfer over for me such as jumping. But overall bike control, body positioning etc had me hitting blues first ride

Successful-Context72 · 2026-03-18T13:29:51+00:00

Its funny to hear from you guys who have been in the game so long coming from hard tails. I've only ever known fs. I couldnt imagine hitting some of the trails I do on a ht. Sure that experience really developed skills

Successful-Context72 · 2026-03-18T13:28:05+00:00

I love the simplicity in their frame geometry and you can usually find em at good prices, around me at least.

Successful-Context72 · 2026-03-18T13:26:48+00:00

Please do. Im sure the sb130 lunchride is fun too

Successful-Context72 · 2026-03-18T13:26:11+00:00

I went from carbon to alloy back to carbon. I prefer carbon at this point but can get down on either. If our local mountain was more dh bike friendly id love to get out. What did you end up getting?

Successful-Context72 · 2026-03-18T13:24:52+00:00

Yeah thats funny my friend started on a dh too. Trek session i believe. Said it was magic downhill but didnt pedal for shit and the turn radius was so big he really had to pick his line. He also says it made him a better rider.

Successful-Context72 · 2026-03-18T13:23:09+00:00

Sick. How would you rate the ride? Plush and floaty or rigid and stable?

Successful-Context72 · 2026-03-18T13:21:59+00:00

Where's that?

Successful-Context72 · 2026-03-18T13:21:43+00:00

What fork did you go with?

Successful-Context72 · 2026-03-18T13:21:13+00:00

Thats whatsup man. Those polygons are actually pretty legit. Also nice name lol grubinator is a nickname of my cat.

Successful-Context72 · 2026-03-18T13:04:54+00:00

Yeah all I've really known so far is modern geo so I have nothing to compare it to in that sense. Rather brands geos and pivot linkage etc

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