Yeah, and go-karts are known to be the best handling vehicles on earth - fact. If a car "handles like a go kart" it is a huge compliment. All F1 drivers start on go karts (and not just for fun).
My bike is 100% more satisfying to ride with the suspension locked. It gives me more feedback and more control over the bike (repeating myself once again)
You are arguing against yourself here! I have no doubt suspension is more efficient over rough terrain - it just feels awful to ride - I am willing to make that concession to have a more satisfying bike to ride, and I never fall off anyway - so is the suspension really required?!
If a car "handles like a go kart" it is a huge compliment.
Nothing more than lazy journalistic shorthand for quick steering and a generally 'darty' nature. It's not a given that these qualities will go hand in hand with 'good' handling (though they might).
All F1 drivers start on go karts (and not just for fun).
Because it's a cheap way to get into something that has a sort of feel of F1 and is part of an established path upwards. It's no comment on the merits of a go-kart's handling one way or another.
More pertinently than any of the above, try taking a go-kart off road and see how it handles.
... and I never fall off anyway - so is the suspension really required?!
The possibilities are, then...
• You don't ride very hard
• You don't ride anything demanding
• You're an extraordinary rider with skills far in excess of the guys who define the state of the art in mountain biking.
Perhaps you should understand how you adjust the handling on a go-kart,the analogy was that it didn't fall apart, however they do age quickly but that is because the front and rear roll resistance is adjusted by allowing more or less flex in the chassis, the rivets and bonding need continual maintenance due to that twist.
Back to your original questions, it's easy to convert your cube to rigid, £50-60 and 30 minutes, it's easy to fix the other issues your fantastically controlled riding has created like the snapped spokes as well....of course, rigid your even more likely to snap one. Disc brakes are massively superior to, and more reliable than, rim brakes, fix them properly once.
There are, as plenty of people have said here, lots of options for rigid forks. On-One do them in steel or carbon and a variety of sizes. Fully rigid suits me, but it won't suit everyone - and there are one or two places I've been where suspension would have a distinct advantage.
Steel carbon or aluminium, certainly don't want to ballast your rigids to the same weight as suspension ones, even the heaviest steel forks are lighter than the lightest suspension ones, I though Mr Control awesome would know that.
Money no object (£120 ish) carbon (on-one or exotic carbon), alluminium Mosso are very nice but a bit harsh riding, steel heaviest but cheapest.
Depends if it's front or rear spokes, also how it was done, suspension mean you are less likely to break spokes, not that you won't, which is why I said likely isn't it.
Easiest way is to simply measure the old spoke, from where it comes out of the hub hole to where it touches the rim (can add a millimetre or two, if you like).
Looks like a modern take on a butcher's bike. All it needs is a basket on the front and you're away. That chain thing in the middle looks needlessly complicated, though. Imagine the maintenance. Like the green one.
Looks like a modern take on a butcher's bike. All it needs is a basket on the front and you're away. That chain thing in the middle looks needlessly complicated, though. Imagine the maintenance. Like the green one.
As long as you don't need to stop quickly, great fun.
That Transition Klunker... looks interesting, but one gear?! How does that work once you hit an incline or hill or whatever?! It doesn't even have brakes!
I don't suppose I could (since I need new wheels) convert my existing bike to V-brakes?
More control over repairing them with everyday tools, in under 5 minutes. That and they do exactly them same thing! I pull the lever, I stop. Good enough for me.
Found a nice looking simple bike, rigid, V-brakes. Much prefer a bike with a bike of weight anyway.
That and they do exactly them same thing! I pull the lever, I stop. Good enough for me.
In your six rides, you presumably found no mud, mud and rim brakes means you pull lever, travel about 30feet while the pads get through the mud to the rim, then stop while the pads use the mud as a grinding paste to chew your rims up.
As has been said ad nausea, modern discs should need no maintenance. I suspect you have managed to make a hash of them (like your wheels) rather than them having an issue.
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My bike is 100% more satisfying to ride with the suspension locked. It gives me more feedback and more control over the bike (repeating myself once again)
You are arguing against yourself here! I have no doubt suspension is more efficient over rough terrain - it just feels awful to ride - I am willing to make that concession to have a more satisfying bike to ride, and I never fall off anyway - so is the suspension really required?!
Nope, not "fact". Go-karts merely handle like go-karts. That's all.
Nothing more than lazy journalistic shorthand for quick steering and a generally 'darty' nature. It's not a given that these qualities will go hand in hand with 'good' handling (though they might).
Because it's a cheap way to get into something that has a sort of feel of F1 and is part of an established path upwards. It's no comment on the merits of a go-kart's handling one way or another.
More pertinently than any of the above, try taking a go-kart off road and see how it handles.
The possibilities are, then...
• You don't ride very hard
• You don't ride anything demanding
• You're an extraordinary rider with skills far in excess of the guys who define the state of the art in mountain biking.
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Back to your original questions, it's easy to convert your cube to rigid, £50-60 and 30 minutes, it's easy to fix the other issues your fantastically controlled riding has created like the snapped spokes as well....of course, rigid your even more likely to snap one. Disc brakes are massively superior to, and more reliable than, rim brakes, fix them properly once.
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Also, the spokes weren't wrecked by my riding - if they were, that wouldn't be a great testament to the efficiency of suspension forks now, would it?!
Money no object (£120 ish) carbon (on-one or exotic carbon), alluminium Mosso are very nice but a bit harsh riding, steel heaviest but cheapest.
Depends if it's front or rear spokes, also how it was done, suspension mean you are less likely to break spokes, not that you won't, which is why I said likely isn't it.
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Don't need anything special, steel would do I suppose - as long as it matches fairly the paint scheme on the bike.
I am going to do the spokes first, does anyone know what size I need?
I checked my bike for specs, what I see on my tyre:
54-559 (26x2.1) HS 367
and on my wheel:
ALEXRIMS DISC AX 24 // 6061H - T6 // doublewall 559 x 19
Does this give me an idea of what type/size spokes I need?
Thanks.
Doesn't the spoke need to be exact size or it will be poking the tube?
Got the spoke out, both pieces. A bit hard measuring it since the are naturally best out of shape to fit into the wheel...
What am I looking at price-wise?
These wheels seems very light, maybe that's why they buckled easily... what different materials are wheels made out of, what is the strongest?
That would explain the wheel rub I couldn't fix...
Looks like a new bike would be better at this point, WTF!
Does anyone actually sell decent full rigid MTBs anymore?
I ride a lot of rigids myself (only one of my five bikes still has suspension).....
How the hell do you wreck forks, buckle both wheels, and manage to lose brake fluid in 6 rides?
Maybe look at a jump bike, as you don't sound suited to an XC bike.
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http://klunkerz.com/
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We did similar in 1976 with kids bikes.
Good times.
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Billy Connolly on a bike!
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That man is a good reason for Scottish independence. Keep him out of England.
You don't like Billy Connolly? What are you, some kind of pervert?
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That Transition Klunker... looks interesting, but one gear?! How does that work once you hit an incline or hill or whatever?! It doesn't even have brakes!
I don't suppose I could (since I need new wheels) convert my existing bike to V-brakes?
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Found a nice looking simple bike, rigid, V-brakes. Much prefer a bike with a bike of weight anyway.
http://www.halfords.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/product_storeId_10001_catalogId_10151_productId_1031938_langId_-1_categoryId_165499#tab1
Is it worth it trying to punt my frame, are they worth anything?
You'd be better off riding an ox. It would be lighter.
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How about this:
http://www.jejamescycles.co.uk/claud-butler-mercury-bike-silver-mens-id57099.html
Or this:
http://www.jejamescycles.co.uk/claud-butler-trailridge-12-mountain-bike-id83077.html
You HAVE to be a troll?
As has been said ad nausea, modern discs should need no maintenance. I suspect you have managed to make a hash of them (like your wheels) rather than them having an issue.
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The only pay-off I can think of for riding a rigid bike with inferior brakes would be that it was very much lighter. (Price aside, of course).
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