freeride bike

Typical things are.... but there are exceptions

smaller wheelbase than DH bikes...
long travel single crown forks (you will see this more often in 05)
between 5" and 7" rear travel versus 8" or more for DH bikes
under 50 pounds
dual chanrings instead of one big chain ring
slightly less slack HT angle than DH bikes
lower geared cassettes

thank you

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Typical things are.... but there are exceptions

smaller wheelbase than DH bikes...
long travel single crown forks (you will see this more often in 05)
between 5" and 7" rear travel versus 8" or more for DH bikes
under 50 pounds
dual chanrings instead of one big chain ring
slightly less slack HT angle than DH bikes
lower geared cassettes

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Typical things are.... but there are exceptions

smaller wheelbase than DH bikes...
long travel single crown forks (you will see this more often in 05)
between 5" and 7" rear travel versus 8" or more for DH bikes
under 50 pounds
dual chanrings instead of one big chain ring
slightly less slack HT angle than DH bikes
lower geared cassettes

You have it all wrong. Free-ride is a bunch of lazy, poor downhillers that
don't have enough money for a lift ticket. They either ride, push, or
shuttle to the top. I still ride up on my "Free-ride" bike. It isn't
really free. I'm still paying either way.

TJ
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Typical things are.... but there are exceptions

smaller wheelbase than DH bikes...
long travel single crown forks (you will see this more often in 05)
between 5" and 7" rear travel versus 8" or more for DH bikes
under 50 pounds
dual chanrings instead of one big chain ring
slightly less slack HT angle than DH bikes
lower geared cassettes

You have it all wrong. Free-ride is a bunch of lazy, poor downhillers

that

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don't have enough money for a lift ticket. They either ride, push, or
shuttle to the top. I still ride up on my "Free-ride" bike. It isn't
really free. I'm still paying either way.

Nah, A freeride bike if for people who enjoy actually riding, not impressing
their pals with how light their bike is. It's for people who still
occasionaly smoke and drink but could still paste your average XC'er on
technical sections. For people who
want to downhill, but are sensible (and poor) enough to realise that a DH
bike can ONLY go downhill. It's for people who don't cry when they scratch
their frame and for people who spend the majority of their time on either
the front of back wheel, but rarely both...... freeride is the future! Or
maybe not ;o)

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Nah, A freeride bike if for people who enjoy actually riding, not impressing
their pals with how light their bike is. It's for people who still
occasionaly smoke and drink but could still paste your average XC'er on
technical sections. For people who
want to downhill, but are sensible (and poor) enough to realise that a DH
bike can ONLY go downhill. It's for people who don't cry when they scratch
their frame and for people who spend the majority of their time on either
the front of back wheel, but rarely both...... freeride is the future! Or
maybe not ;o)

I gotta agree. FR bikes are for us XC riders that don't baby their
equipment and get [censored] when it breaks.
If you start with an ultralight XC rig, ride for a couple of years and
replace everything you break with a heavier one that won't break under
normal XC use, you'll eventually end up with a FR bike.

-Bruce

"Bruce Edge" <[email hidden]>

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If you start with an ultralight XC rig, ride for a couple of years and
replace everything you break with a heavier one that won't break under
normal XC use, you'll eventually end up with a FR bike.

-Bruce

Interesting point you made! That is why I went from an i-Drive to a Bullit.
Almost every part I broke and had replaced on the i-Drive got transplanted
to the Bullit frame.

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Typical things are.... but there are exceptions

smaller wheelbase than DH bikes...
long travel single crown forks (you will see this more often in 05)
between 5" and 7" rear travel versus 8" or more for DH bikes
under 50 pounds
dual chanrings instead of one big chain ring
slightly less slack HT angle than DH bikes
lower geared cassettes

You have it all wrong. Free-ride is a bunch of lazy, poor downhillers

that

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don't have enough money for a lift ticket. They either ride, push, or
shuttle to the top. I still ride up on my "Free-ride" bike. It isn't
really free. I'm still paying either way.

Nah, A freeride bike if for people who enjoy actually riding, not impressing
their pals with how light their bike is. It's for people who still
occasionaly smoke

That's a riot.

JD

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Nah, A freeride bike if for people who enjoy actually riding, not impressing
their pals with how light their bike is. It's for people who still
occasionaly smoke and drink but could still paste your average XC'er on
technical sections. For people who
want to downhill, but are sensible (and poor) enough to realise that a DH
bike can ONLY go downhill. It's for people who don't cry when they scratch
their frame and for people who spend the majority of their time on either
the front of back wheel, but rarely both...... freeride is the future! Or
maybe not ;o)

I gotta agree. FR bikes are for us XC riders that don't baby their
equipment and get [censored] when it breaks.
If you start with an ultralight XC rig, ride for a couple of years and
replace everything you break with a heavier one that won't break under
normal XC use, you'll eventually end up with a FR bike.

What a crock of [censored]. My singlespeed only weighs in at 23lbs, doesn't
get "babied" and I've had to do minimal replacements on it because it
has minimal parts to begin with.

JD

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Nah, A freeride bike if for people who enjoy actually riding, not impressing
their pals with how light their bike is. It's for people who still
occasionaly smoke and drink but could still paste your average XC'er on
technical sections. For people who
want to downhill, but are sensible (and poor) enough to realise that a DH
bike can ONLY go downhill. It's for people who don't cry when they scratch
their frame and for people who spend the majority of their time on either
the front of back wheel, but rarely both...... freeride is the future! Or
maybe not ;o)

I gotta agree. FR bikes are for us XC riders that don't baby their
equipment and get [censored] when it breaks.
If you start with an ultralight XC rig, ride for a couple of years and
replace everything you break with a heavier one that won't break under
normal XC use, you'll eventually end up with a FR bike.

What a crock of [censored]. My singlespeed only weighs in at 23lbs, doesn't
get "babied" and I've had to do minimal replacements on it because it
has minimal parts to begin with.

JD

I do see your point, and it is an argument in favor of an SS if you want
something durable and light.
However, I think the original poster was talking about FS bikes, not
minimalist SS's.
What kind of frame are you running? That's where I have troubles keeping
it in one piece. Although, it's probably a pretty beefy frame if it
still weighs 23 lb without any gearing. Is it fully rigid too?
Add a non-super-lightweight suspension and gears to that and you'd be
hard pressed to come in under 30. That seems to be about the FR cutoff
weight.
So you just have a FR SS :-)

-Bruce

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Nah, A freeride bike if for people who enjoy actually riding, not impressing
their pals with how light their bike is. It's for people who still
occasionaly smoke and drink but could still paste your average XC'er on
technical sections. For people who
want to downhill, but are sensible (and poor) enough to realise that a DH
bike can ONLY go downhill. It's for people who don't cry when they scratch
their frame and for people who spend the majority of their time on either
the front of back wheel, but rarely both...... freeride is the future! Or
maybe not ;o)

I gotta agree. FR bikes are for us XC riders that don't baby their
equipment and get [censored] when it breaks.
If you start with an ultralight XC rig, ride for a couple of years and
replace everything you break with a heavier one that won't break under
normal XC use, you'll eventually end up with a FR bike.

What a crock of [censored]. My singlespeed only weighs in at 23lbs, doesn't
get "babied" and I've had to do minimal replacements on it because it
has minimal parts to begin with.

JD

minimalistic indeed. Dontcha just hate replaceing the same parts over
and over?