Which to keep

Iain 1959
Iain 1959 Posts: 7
edited May 2015 in MTB general
Hi just joined.

Have had bikes on off since I was a kid (now just a big kid) 56 I have an Apollo Phaze bought new 7 years ago not used it much,then recently I have been given a Trek 800 gave it a check over then did a ten mile ride and found it a very easy ride. I changed the bars on the Apollo for wider ones, I have wider bars on my motorcycle as well looked at doing this on the Trek but the stem is not the split type. Any views on this. Regards Iain

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  • cooldad
    cooldad Posts: 32,599
    Not sure what a split type is? but you can get wide bars in all flavours.
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  • Iain 1959
    Iain 1959 Posts: 7
    Split stem is where the top of the stem has 2 screws that let you change the handle bars the Trek has a loop with 1 bolt, so only straight bars can be fed through and it is a bigger diameter than my Sunline bars.Iian
  • rockmonkeysc
    rockmonkeysc Posts: 14,774
    Sell both and get a mountain bike.
  • cooldad
    cooldad Posts: 32,599
    You can fit riser bars with a single bolt stem, just wriggle them through. Size will be 31.8
    You can get long flat bars.
    As a start. Wide and cheap
    http://www.chainreactioncycles.com/bran ... prod118782
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  • The Rookie
    The Rookie Posts: 27,812
    Most stems without a faceplate are 25.4, not 31.8, the older bike may have 22.2mm bars (so 25.4 is bigger). Would suggest he measures first!

    Neither is really a 'mountain' bike though!
    Currently riding a Whyte T130C, X0 drivetrain, Magura Trail brakes converted to mixed wheel size (homebuilt wheels) with 140mm Fox 34 Rhythm and RP23 suspension. 12.2Kg.
  • cooldad
    cooldad Posts: 32,599
    Fair point. Plenty of long 25.4 bars as well.
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  • cooldad
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    ps the Trek looks like a mountain bike to me. But obviously I am from a different era of manly gas pipe bikes.
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  • Iain 1959
    Iain 1959 Posts: 7
    The Rookie wrote:
    Most stems without a faceplate are 25.4, not 31.8, the older bike may have 22.2mm bars (so 25.4 is bigger). Would suggest he measures first!

    Neither is really a 'mountain' bike though!

    Thanks for all replies.If not mountain bikes what are they, Urban?
  • Iain 1959
    Iain 1959 Posts: 7
    OK I have found my own answer on Wikapedia I hope this will help others of my age. :D

    Mountain bikes can be classified into four categories based on suspension:

    Rigid: A frame with a rigid fork and fixed rear, no suspension.
    Hard tail: A frame with a front suspension fork and no rear suspension.
    Soft tail: A frame with small amount of rear suspension, activated by flex of the frame instead of pivots.
    Dual or full suspension: A front suspension fork and rear suspension with a rear shock and linkage that allow the rear wheel to move on pivots.
  • Chunkers1980
    Chunkers1980 Posts: 8,035
    Yeah - that's a rigid mountain bike.
  • Iain 1959
    Iain 1959 Posts: 7
    And makes the apollo a hardtail so both are mountain bikes
  • Chunkers1980
    Chunkers1980 Posts: 8,035
    No the Apollo, is a fully rigid due to it being POS BSO
  • cooldad
    cooldad Posts: 32,599
    Yep but to the kiddies on here before they can ride over a blade of grass they need at least a foot of suspension both ends, a dropper post, massive gnarly tyres, eight foot wide bars, a 1mm stem and somewhere to plug the GPS and Playstation into.

    Now when I was a lad....
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  • Antm81
    Antm81 Posts: 1,406
    cooldad wrote:
    Now when I was a lad....

    ....everybody believed the earth was flat
  • Iain 1959
    Iain 1959 Posts: 7
    Apollo Phaze is a hard tail

    Hard tail: A frame with a front suspension fork and no rear suspension.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNYOqKwTG8M
  • cooldad
    cooldad Posts: 32,599
    Iain 1959 wrote:
    Apollo Phaze is a hard tail

    Hard tail: A frame with a front suspension fork and no rear suspension.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNYOqKwTG8M

    He's being less than complimentary. Possibly referring to the forks being a bit useless.
    No the Apollo, is a fully rigid due to it being POS BSO


    Translation:

    Piece of sh1t bike shaped object.
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  • Chunkers1980
    Chunkers1980 Posts: 8,035
    Spot on CD.
  • Lungs94
    Lungs94 Posts: 160
    I dont think the bloke understand what a BSO is or what a POS they are
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