09-04-2008, 11:19 AM
I'm with RJ on that one. If you really want to go mountain biking, you need to spend a good chunk of change to get something durable enough to stand up to the punishment it can lay on a bike. A well executed jump or drop really isn't that destructive to bike (watch an expert BMX'er or cross country racer, it's almost elegant to watch)... but hanging up your chainring on a big log roll, pitching the bike in a poor execution crossing a rock garden, casing your wheel, whatever, can really lay some damage to cheap alternatives.
Sure, if you don't want to use it often, a cheap bike will work.... or if you want to use it on fire roads and dirt trails. But if you're going to bomb through the sixpack downhills, visit fountainhead, or something to that effect, you're going to be spending a lot of time working on, and cursing a cheap bike.
Sure, if you don't want to use it often, a cheap bike will work.... or if you want to use it on fire roads and dirt trails. But if you're going to bomb through the sixpack downhills, visit fountainhead, or something to that effect, you're going to be spending a lot of time working on, and cursing a cheap bike.
When it comes to Ryan Jenkins, the story ends with me putting him in the wall.
2009 Speed Triple | 2006 DR-Z400SM | 1999 CBR600F4 | 1998 Jeep Cherokee
-Ginger
2009 Speed Triple | 2006 DR-Z400SM | 1999 CBR600F4 | 1998 Jeep Cherokee
-Ginger