Unless your looking to do 30 foot table top jumps!
Unless your looking to do 30 foot table top jumps!
1980 CJ-7 304 TH400 BW1339
1999 TJ Sport 4.0 32RH NP231
2001 XJ Sport 4.0 AW4 NP231
I agree, there's no need for a DH bike unless you are dedicated to 7springs.
AM im considering to be a hartwood style ride.. fast, bigger ups and downs... the only thing seperating that and FR would be the fact that you have logs/bridges/latters you have to get up over and off of. an AM bike should still do a 1-3' drop/ledge/flat IMO. a freeride bike is only going to be 1" or so more travel, and the same style frame construction. There are plenty of 6-7" bikes that are close to 30lb and will outclimb my Hifi, but we're talking $4k+ markets.
DH is vastly different b/c now you take the entire "ride it back up the hill" perspective out of the bike's design, weight, pivots, geometry. There is no pride in trying to ride a DH bike around here, its plain dumb. I thought about going that route once till i really saw what other bikes were out there.
My hifi is 5" of travel and now just dropped into the 22lb range. I've followed my buddy who rides an 8/9" Foes from the top of water tower hill down to the spillway, multiple times and was able to stay within 6-8' of him at all times.... even with me bypassing the hucks he hit, in the 11t ring, full tilt. The only difference, i rode back up the hill... he pushed
lame
you can do 30' tables on a hardtail, hell a BMX bike even.
2007 Quad cab frontier LE
1998 wrangler with pink wheel centers (hers)
2004 trx450r stress reliever.
I'm used to pushing bikes up hills, my old bmx shit was all geared for flat land and down hill.
03 s10 4x4
89 irocz mullet mobile
90 miata v8 project
i used to race bmx for hites a long time ago. i didnt know they closed though?
98 xj- project dad's baby hauler-3 inch skyjacker lift 31 inch at's custom bumper
00 xj- opposite sex-j or wife-j
97 tj-summer fun toy. 33's 4 inch lift custom tube fenders, custom armor and stuff.
Originally Posted by [B]dangerranger44[/B]
i know how the thornbirds suck offroad and all that. but they ride good and they make any truck look badass though.
They unexpectedly closed a couple years ago for reasons i'm not exactly sure of.
2007 Quad cab frontier LE
1998 wrangler with pink wheel centers (hers)
2004 trx450r stress reliever.
I say buy something used and build it the way you want. I found this on CL tonight just for an example.
http://pittsburgh.craigslist.org/bik/948967569.html
There was also a Cannondale Jekyll on mtbr.com the other week. I think he only wanted 500 for it.
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