Just built a Commencal meta ht form 2016 with a carbon fork and some not too agressive mtb tyres just for that purpose and I agree a lot with your opinion
@Srt3D01-db-01 then you're either getting it with a boat anchor fork or a nice fork that will end up very neglected and dead. Suspension forks often interfere with fenders, which are a necessity for commuting in some regions (UK, Russia, etc.)
For a city habitant, if you have the room to park them, I would say my bike list would be : - Gravel bike / touring adventure - road bike / performance - Fixed gear / cheap for daily ride in the city - fixed gear / performance - cause you need speed and it is a dream bike - MTB hard tail or enduro depending on your practice - cargo bike or folding bike / could be swapped with the daily fixed gear. My liste is 4/5 bikes.
2 bikes Road bike / endurance. With a 2x gravel groupset. 2 sets of wheels 28mm road and 40mm gravel tires Full suspension mtb / for when the going gets rough If you need a 3rd. An e bike, full suspension, ready for anything and able to get you deeper into the wilderness. Ill never own a fixie unless my kid gets one and rightfully ditches it @ my house later in life like my cousin did to his dad as soon as he got a car. Right now all i have is a full suspension mtb because i got it free and its technically capable of riding anywhere. Im learning how to ride no hands on grass right now, dodging people on the park path. Pretty sure i can ride 100 yards on the grass and do some very minor manuvering.
@@magiricod I don't ride my 1000$ fixie daily on the streets 'cause I don't want to locked up more than 5 min outside. I prefer to have an inatractive to thieves fixie that cost me less than 200$ for daily rides.
As a 53 year old cyclist if I had to cull the herd to four bikes I'd keep the following in the stable: 1. Bridgestone Kabuki fixed gear conversion - because it's tough as nails, easy to maintain, and very fun to ride; 2. Linear Limo Recumbent - because I ain't getting any younger and a recumbent is easy on the body so it'll keep me riding into my golden years; 3. Brompton Folding Bike - because it can go anywhere so there's never an excuse not to somehow incorporate cycling into the day; and 4. Trek 4500 single speed conversion - because I live in Canada and I don't want to stop riding in the winter. Slapped some studded tires on the thing and it's GTG.
I never looked back when I went from 5 bikes down to one after I bought a hybrid for comfort and geared it for speed of a roadie. I now have the best of both worlds.
I think a good alternative for the fixie route is freestyle BMX. You can learn lots of skills that translaste especial to MTB like riding position for going over obstacles, jumps, bunny hops, manuals, pumping, etc. They're also hella cheap and easy to work on. They also fit into the trunck of small cars and are tough as nails.
Im MTBer but trust me the sensation you get on a road bike is much greater than that of bombing downhills, if you have the leg power to get yourself up there on the road bike. I love my status 160 but my road bike is something else.
Freeloading has led me to inherit 1. My step dad was getting a new full suspension mtb and asked who wanted his trek remedy (29er). Suddenly im jumping like my inner child going "ME ME ME ME ME" And now ive spent more in tools, lubes, waxes, and parts. Than i would have spent buying the bike, but im set for years of doing my own maintenance. I also got the bike running better than ever! Mostly using Shimano high performance grease and silca chain wax.
this video (up to the 4 minute mark) has perfectly explained my cycling experience. my first bike “real” bike i bought when i was 17 was a hardtail trek, currently i commute with my grandpas old cannondale road touring bike, that i converted to a rigid gravel bike, and im planning to get a titanium full suspension bike built next year. my hope is to set the steering up like my road bike and have it handle like my touring bike just more stable in tougher offroad stuff
Idk about America, but in Europe everyone needs a commuter, and everyone has one. Cargo bikes are also awesome if you live in the city and don’t own a car.
I own 3, did own 4 but had to get rid of the 4th as I didn't have space... The 4 bikes you should own are Full suspension MTB because you never know when you need to send It. Gravel bike ( my favourite bike I have ) because you never know when you need to go fast on the gravel roads. Road bike ( mines a single speed carbon frame ) because going faster than the traffic is extremely fun Hardtail ( which I got rid of ) sometimes it's ok to go for a casual ride...
First of you should start with a hard tail mountain bike they are fun reliable and easy to maintain , then you should get a hybrid because you want to go on a road without having to pull out you mountain bike, then you should get a high quality mountain bike to learn some more about the sport and then you should get a dirt jumper so you can figure out what you like the most. Once you do you should get one more of you favorites and call it a day. Also I just went on my first group ride and we ended up cliff jumping with these random guys we found at the cliff so I really do suggest for new people to just find some people and get out there and ride.
Ist you should get a bmx bike. Because hopefully your still a kid when you get your 1st real bike. If your big enough to fit a hardtail, then your running late, but definetly take that option. If you can get a decent full suspension bike (even used) then go for that and bypass the hard tail, you can always lock out your rear, but i never do. After messing around off trail, it would be good to get a drop bar endurance bike to increase your pedaling power. This will be a bike made for comfort so you can get in long rides, it will help those mtb hills become less daunting. After that you need to ask yourself what you want to do. Do you want more road? Think about an aero road bike. Do you want more off road? If so look into the right bike to suit your whim. From gravel to downhill, the options are endless! Do you want to get further with less effort? Say riding down a trail to a fishing spot, or a wilderness camping vacation. Then a full suspension e-bike might be ideal. I already know my 3rd bike will be an e-bike. There is so much nature i want to explore. But i also want to be able to hop off the bike and wander/fish. Not be tired from the ride. The place i mostly intend on using it is in the sierra mountains, which call for a full suspension bike.
Commuter Bike, Gravel Bike, Hardtail, Full Sus and maybe also a cargo bike for some parts of the population. I rode bmx street and park for a short amount of time and the amount of aches you get and time it takes requires an entire hobby slot that regular people probably don't have at least if they also ride their road/mountainbikes.
Heres a good way of going about it: Hard tail MTB to learn bike handling skills Track bike for group rides, preferably with big clearances for tracklocross riding Road bike for big days and pushing hard Gravel/touring bike for trips on trails
Road, gravel, mountain. Thats it. A fixie is worse than a beach cruiser. I would prefer a coaster break, or even just the ability to coast! If one likes fixies they might as well bypass the chain and just get a big wheel (plastic tricycle) then the cranks are connected to the source (the wheel). Plus with a plastic wheel you can do sick burnies (like when i was 5)
@@brandonhoffman4712 I like yo skidaddle through the traffic, ain t nothing replacing a fixie, mainly because of how simple they are, plus why the hell would you get a road and a gravel too, I would keep the gravel and buy a set of road wheels. Im not even into roadies but everybody around me is so yeah. Also dirt jumpers is a must, best thing to take out in the city for some street
@@TheFesk98 gravel bikes have gotten a bit gnarly, its the 1x gravel drivetrain that lacks on the road, and its the most previlant thing. Im looking into drop bar stuff right now. Im going to build an all road bike. Starting with a road endurance bike, with clearance for at least a 38mm tire (preferably 40mm). Im going to choose a low end model with crap drivetrain. Then replace the drivetrain with a 2x gravel drivetrain which will handle both roads and climbs better than a 1x. Buy some carbon gravel wheels (enve lifetime incident protection) toss an all road tire on there and im set for everything I would want to do with it. Some gravel bikes do interest me. The main thing I care about is not having to braise on the front derailleur. My intention is to cover road and gravel with a wheel change.
@@brandonhoffman4712 that sounds fair for your use case, call me crazy but I would probably get a 1x12 drivetrain on a gravel, something with a medium size chainring, maybe 42t, simply because I am used mostly to mountain biking and do not care that much for a couple extra km/h. I would even put a 50mm fork on it xD
@@TheFesk98 Im also fine with the complexity of a normal bike, do all my own maintenance. except when I bent my last wheel, i wanted to support my local shop. I Bounced off a lightpole riding no hands trying to dodge one of those walk buttons on its own standalone post, caught my bar on the walk button post, then hit my front brake in a panick, and my rear flew up in the air and scisor kicked the traffic light, i then did some kind of retarded matrix move trying to dodge bullets as i did a 180 in the air eventually landing back on earth pointed the wrong way... The no hands life! I liken a fixie to fred flinstone walking his car everywhere it went! A great ride for getting some brontosaurus ribs...
I think everyone should own an Enduro bike, for the rides without lift, a Downhill bike, for the bikepark laps downhill races, then a Road bike to build the endurance to ride the other two bikes and last but not least a BMX or a dirt jumper to learn cool tricks
My dream garage would be - a gravel/roadbike (2 different tire sets) - 130mm to 140mm Trailbike - Bikepark capable Enduro E-Bike (maby even a pump track bike) - and a old rocked down commuter
1 - Folding Bike for versatility (Brompton types) 2 - City Bike / Cargo Bike / E-City as daily 3 - Endurance Road Bike 4 - Aero Road Bike 5 - Fixie for Training 6 - MTB for the weekends maybe 7 - Gravel EBIKE when ur legs finally give out to arthritis or smth +1 if its an amazing looking bike
My bike list currently: Old cheapo hard tail that I retrofitted into a really good dj bike Trail hardtail Fat bike 2007 tri bike that got converted to a normal road bike by the last owner that I'm working to turn into a proper tt bike Unicycle I bought for $15 on FB marketplace Total bikes owned: 4.5
Alternatively if you wanna be more offroad oriented./ (This is how I did it) Do: 0. cheap entry level hardtail, mainly to figure out what you want from mtb, then eventually sell that sucker (plenty of those on the used market also, so great for starting out. 1. Full sus enduro or trail bike depending on what you figured out about yourself with your first bike (a proper trail bike will cost you more than a proper enduro, because weight on a trail bike is more of a hinderance). The reason, why I put the full sus so early, is because you can build confidence extremely quickly on those. Don't focus that much on line choice, figure it out! The suspension will save your ass a lot, but you will get more confident! 2. Entry level road bike: Great for commuting (if you can park it somewhere safe) and you will become addicted to speed, as said in the video. 3. Trail Hardtail: At some point you will reach a plateau where your progression will slow massively on your full sus. This is, because your lazy line choices will really slow you down. You also won't really realize yet, how far you can actually push your enduro, because you are still holding back. That's where the Hardtail comes in: With your prebuilt confidence from the full sus, the hardtail won't hold you back, but it will force you to consider line choice. It will also teach you hopping over features in the terrain to skip them. You will get comfortable with intense hits and really fast vibrations and kinda stop caring about them. At some point when you finally go back to your full sus, you will immediately get a lot faster and you will have unlocked the mid skill ceiling you previously hit with your full sus. 4. Custom Monstercross build (or gravel if you don't want to go full custom): Hear me out! You wanna really go places, but also want to ride chunk? Build yourself a completely custom Monstercross/ Dropbar mtb. 5. Sell the Entry level road bike and get a really nice road bike. Hydro disc brakes are really nice when going 80+ kmh at the descents. 6. For all you europeans a 5th bike: Get a cargo bike, these are seriously useful and depending on your living situation make your car more or less obsolete
mtb, ghravel, road and fixie/single speed. I am way off bvecause gravel, 2 retro'ish mtb's, assembling third, well used road bike with partly carbon frame.
for frame and stuff covered with paint i use Wd-40 cleaner and degreaser, for shifters and derailleurs I use WD-40 because its a stronger degreaser and cleaner but may damage paint so thats why I dont use it on paint too often!
There's really no place near me to ride a mountain bike like a mountain bike and I'm not gonna drive three hours to get in a fifteen minute ride before i have to head back. LOL And I'd swap out the fixed gear for a single speed with a freewheel. You'll get most of the benefits of a fixed gear without the risk of tossing yourself over the handlebars by forgetting to pedal.
Yes, yes I did. More personable and don’t know if I’m going to be able to run my shop full time in college, may branch out and do other types of content relative to racing, auto and engineering stuff too!
I have one bike that I use for everything. Trails, skate parks, street, long adventure rides, whatever. it's a single speed enduro with maxxis assegais front and rear and the saddle slammed all the way down. it pedals like shit but I don't care, it's fun.
Replace the road bike with a recumbent for more speed and grocery getting power and fit a high end hard tail, skip the stupid fixie, and you are set for LIFE. Two bikes is all you need.
You say first bike as if people have the luxury to choose their first bike as adults and haven't already ridden a BMX through childhood and a cheap hardtail through adolescence. Also for me it's a rigid MTB with nice plush tires and mudguards as a commuter, and a cyclocross or gravel bike for rides.
Coaster brake, steel road bike with bullhorns: Lightweight, quick and nimble, always in the wrong gear, poor brakes (but better brake power than fixed gear skidding), almost indestructible and more reliable than any bike I ever had... Then I would buy a cargo bike and a Brompton copycat.
Stop ripping on department store bike's.. there's a very fine line between the two now a days.. those department store bike's all got us going in the beginning.... Y'all act like pros...😂😅
I got a funny story to tell . Yesterday I took my road bike to the trail and there was this group of dudes riding Walmart bikes who started talking shit about my bike . Saying I had a little kid bike and I’m a grown man . When most of these dudes there including himself was riding Huffy’s woman drop frames bikes . So if someone is making fun of you is because they are ignorant and probably don’t know anything about bikes.
I had a lad mock me at work for riding a single speed carbon road bike... He was on an pedal assist Halfords bike ( your Walmart bike ) he apologised the next day... When he realised how F**KING fast I was and he couldn't keep up even running out of gears, I have a 52T chainring 🤷 takes a second to get going but once she's gone she's gone.
I've never heard of anyone calling a road bike a kid's bike before. Nobody's making drop bar bikes for kids these days. In fact I've only ever seen one in my life and it was when i was a kid and a boy in my neighborhood had a kid's size drop bar bike with coaster brakes. Don't know who made that thing.
n+1 amirite?
First bike should be a rigid mtb or city bike, a bike that needs least maintenance and is comfortable to ride every day
Also a good option!
Just built a Commencal meta ht form 2016 with a carbon fork and some not too agressive mtb tyres just for that purpose and I agree a lot with your opinion
Can easily do the same work with a hardtail and less agressive tires. And are super comfortable 😉
@Srt3D01-db-01 then you're either getting it with a boat anchor fork or a nice fork that will end up very neglected and dead. Suspension forks often interfere with fenders, which are a necessity for commuting in some regions (UK, Russia, etc.)
For a city habitant, if you have the room to park them, I would say my bike list would be :
- Gravel bike / touring adventure
- road bike / performance
- Fixed gear / cheap for daily ride in the city
- fixed gear / performance - cause you need speed and it is a dream bike
- MTB hard tail or enduro depending on your practice
- cargo bike or folding bike / could be swapped with the daily fixed gear.
My liste is 4/5 bikes.
2 bikes
Road bike / endurance. With a 2x gravel groupset. 2 sets of wheels 28mm road and 40mm gravel tires
Full suspension mtb / for when the going gets rough
If you need a 3rd. An e bike, full suspension, ready for anything and able to get you deeper into the wilderness.
Ill never own a fixie unless my kid gets one and rightfully ditches it @ my house later in life like my cousin did to his dad as soon as he got a car.
Right now all i have is a full suspension mtb because i got it free and its technically capable of riding anywhere. Im learning how to ride no hands on grass right now, dodging people on the park path. Pretty sure i can ride 100 yards on the grass and do some very minor manuvering.
2 fixed gears is crazy
@@magiricod I don't ride my 1000$ fixie daily on the streets 'cause I don't want to locked up more than 5 min outside. I prefer to have an inatractive to thieves fixie that cost me less than 200$ for daily rides.
As a 53 year old cyclist if I had to cull the herd to four bikes I'd keep the following in the stable:
1. Bridgestone Kabuki fixed gear conversion - because it's tough as nails, easy to maintain, and very fun to ride;
2. Linear Limo Recumbent - because I ain't getting any younger and a recumbent is easy on the body so it'll keep me riding into my golden years;
3. Brompton Folding Bike - because it can go anywhere so there's never an excuse not to somehow incorporate cycling into the day; and
4. Trek 4500 single speed conversion - because I live in Canada and I don't want to stop riding in the winter. Slapped some studded tires on the thing and it's GTG.
he missed a dude
I never looked back when I went from 5 bikes down to one after I bought a hybrid for comfort and geared it for speed of a roadie. I now have the best of both worlds.
I currently have 3 bikes and UA-cam recommends me this. That's 100% a sign to spend all money I owe people on something I really shouldn't.
need more tbh...
bike one $100 mtb
bike two $375 mtb
bike three $2999 mtb
bike four $13k modded surron
I think a good alternative for the fixie route is freestyle BMX. You can learn lots of skills that translaste especial to MTB like riding position for going over obstacles, jumps, bunny hops, manuals, pumping, etc. They're also hella cheap and easy to work on. They also fit into the trunck of small cars and are tough as nails.
Being an mtber you need a enduro/ park bike a dj and a cross country bike
Im MTBer but trust me the sensation you get on a road bike is much greater than that of bombing downhills, if you have the leg power to get yourself up there on the road bike. I love my status 160 but my road bike is something else.
shoutouts to polso for making good pieces for the money, the fixie space really needed it
Racing has led me to owning 10 💀
Makes sense 😆
10? I think you need atleast 1 more...
Freeloading has led me to inherit 1.
My step dad was getting a new full suspension mtb and asked who wanted his trek remedy (29er). Suddenly im jumping like my inner child going "ME ME ME ME ME"
And now ive spent more in tools, lubes, waxes, and parts. Than i would have spent buying the bike, but im set for years of doing my own maintenance. I also got the bike running better than ever! Mostly using Shimano high performance grease and silca chain wax.
this video (up to the 4 minute mark) has perfectly explained my cycling experience. my first bike “real” bike i bought when i was 17 was a hardtail trek, currently i commute with my grandpas old cannondale road touring bike, that i converted to a rigid gravel bike, and im planning to get a titanium full suspension bike built next year. my hope is to set the steering up like my road bike and have it handle like my touring bike just more stable in tougher offroad stuff
Idk about America, but in Europe everyone needs a commuter, and everyone has one. Cargo bikes are also awesome if you live in the city and don’t own a car.
Or if you want to get outside more in the summer but have stuff to haul. It is MUCH more fun to bike on a mellow day than to drive a car
I own 3, did own 4 but had to get rid of the 4th as I didn't have space...
The 4 bikes you should own are
Full suspension MTB because you never know when you need to send It.
Gravel bike ( my favourite bike I have ) because you never know when you need to go fast on the gravel roads.
Road bike ( mines a single speed carbon frame ) because going faster than the traffic is extremely fun
Hardtail ( which I got rid of ) sometimes it's ok to go for a casual ride...
-MTB
-Gravel / All road
-City (something that might get stolen)
-the wild card, fixed, bmx, cargo, whatever
fixed gear bike is like a canon event for every teenagers in Singapore
Singapore has a insane fxd scene
i got a gravelbike at first and i really wanna get a hardtail rn.
First of you should start with a hard tail mountain bike they are fun reliable and easy to maintain , then you should get a hybrid because you want to go on a road without having to pull out you mountain bike, then you should get a high quality mountain bike to learn some more about the sport and then you should get a dirt jumper so you can figure out what you like the most. Once you do you should get one more of you favorites and call it a day. Also I just went on my first group ride and we ended up cliff jumping with these random guys we found at the cliff so I really do suggest for new people to just find some people and get out there and ride.
Ist you should get a bmx bike. Because hopefully your still a kid when you get your 1st real bike. If your big enough to fit a hardtail, then your running late, but definetly take that option. If you can get a decent full suspension bike (even used) then go for that and bypass the hard tail, you can always lock out your rear, but i never do. After messing around off trail, it would be good to get a drop bar endurance bike to increase your pedaling power. This will be a bike made for comfort so you can get in long rides, it will help those mtb hills become less daunting. After that you need to ask yourself what you want to do.
Do you want more road? Think about an aero road bike.
Do you want more off road? If so look into the right bike to suit your whim. From gravel to downhill, the options are endless!
Do you want to get further with less effort? Say riding down a trail to a fishing spot, or a wilderness camping vacation. Then a full suspension e-bike might be ideal.
I already know my 3rd bike will be an e-bike. There is so much nature i want to explore. But i also want to be able to hop off the bike and wander/fish. Not be tired from the ride. The place i mostly intend on using it is in the sierra mountains, which call for a full suspension bike.
Went from a hardtail to a full sus then an road bike now a fixie
Great videos. I’m
Going to make a bruh counter for my next video. You’ve influenced me to look at fixies.
Great to hear!
Fixie, hardtail, atb/vintage mtb/gravel bike, brompton.
Commuter Bike, Gravel Bike, Hardtail, Full Sus and maybe also a cargo bike for some parts of the population.
I rode bmx street and park for a short amount of time and the amount of aches you get and time it takes requires an entire hobby slot that regular people probably don't have at least if they also ride their road/mountainbikes.
Started with a 120 carbon hardtail now starting with a mid tier/ high end road bike hahaha these video kind of describe my cyling path 😂
Heres a good way of going about it:
Hard tail MTB to learn bike handling skills
Track bike for group rides, preferably with big clearances for tracklocross riding
Road bike for big days and pushing hard
Gravel/touring bike for trips on trails
I have a fixed gear a dh a dirtjump and a retro gravel bike/80's mtb with drop bars and Im happy with this
As a 4 bike owner myself: hardtail mtb, enduro, gravel/adventure, city roadish bike that you don't care to leave locked outside for a few hours.
MTB, DJ, GRAVEL and FIXIE, all you ever need
Road, gravel, mountain. Thats it.
A fixie is worse than a beach cruiser. I would prefer a coaster break, or even just the ability to coast! If one likes fixies they might as well bypass the chain and just get a big wheel (plastic tricycle) then the cranks are connected to the source (the wheel). Plus with a plastic wheel you can do sick burnies (like when i was 5)
@@brandonhoffman4712 I like yo skidaddle through the traffic, ain t nothing replacing a fixie, mainly because of how simple they are, plus why the hell would you get a road and a gravel too, I would keep the gravel and buy a set of road wheels. Im not even into roadies but everybody around me is so yeah. Also dirt jumpers is a must, best thing to take out in the city for some street
@@TheFesk98 gravel bikes have gotten a bit gnarly, its the 1x gravel drivetrain that lacks on the road, and its the most previlant thing. Im looking into drop bar stuff right now. Im going to build an all road bike. Starting with a road endurance bike, with clearance for at least a 38mm tire (preferably 40mm). Im going to choose a low end model with crap drivetrain. Then replace the drivetrain with a 2x gravel drivetrain which will handle both roads and climbs better than a 1x. Buy some carbon gravel wheels (enve lifetime incident protection) toss an all road tire on there and im set for everything I would want to do with it.
Some gravel bikes do interest me. The main thing I care about is not having to braise on the front derailleur. My intention is to cover road and gravel with a wheel change.
@@brandonhoffman4712 that sounds fair for your use case, call me crazy but I would probably get a 1x12 drivetrain on a gravel, something with a medium size chainring, maybe 42t, simply because I am used mostly to mountain biking and do not care that much for a couple extra km/h. I would even put a 50mm fork on it xD
@@TheFesk98 Im also fine with the complexity of a normal bike, do all my own maintenance. except when I bent my last wheel, i wanted to support my local shop. I Bounced off a lightpole riding no hands trying to dodge one of those walk buttons on its own standalone post, caught my bar on the walk button post, then hit my front brake in a panick, and my rear flew up in the air and scisor kicked the traffic light, i then did some kind of retarded matrix move trying to dodge bullets as i did a 180 in the air eventually landing back on earth pointed the wrong way...
The no hands life!
I liken a fixie to fred flinstone walking his car everywhere it went! A great ride for getting some brontosaurus ribs...
I think everyone should own an Enduro bike, for the rides without lift, a Downhill bike, for the bikepark laps downhill races, then a Road bike to build the endurance to ride the other two bikes and last but not least a BMX or a dirt jumper to learn cool tricks
Literally my biking experience explained
My dream garage would be
- a gravel/roadbike (2 different tire sets)
- 130mm to 140mm Trailbike
- Bikepark capable Enduro E-Bike
(maby even a pump track bike)
- and a old rocked down commuter
1 - Folding Bike for versatility (Brompton types)
2 - City Bike / Cargo Bike / E-City as daily
3 - Endurance Road Bike
4 - Aero Road Bike
5 - Fixie for Training
6 - MTB for the weekends maybe
7 - Gravel EBIKE when ur legs finally give out to arthritis or smth
+1 if its an amazing looking bike
I've got 3 bikes;
An MTB that I'm in the process of building
A gravel bike that can also serve as a road bike
And a tandem bike, because why not
Bmx, dj, trail, hardtail, dh
👌
My bike list currently:
Old cheapo hard tail that I retrofitted into a really good dj bike
Trail hardtail
Fat bike
2007 tri bike that got converted to a normal road bike by the last owner that I'm working to turn into a proper tt bike
Unicycle I bought for $15 on FB marketplace
Total bikes owned: 4.5
Alternatively if you wanna be more offroad oriented./ (This is how I did it) Do:
0. cheap entry level hardtail, mainly to figure out what you want from mtb, then eventually sell that sucker (plenty of those on the used market also, so great for starting out.
1. Full sus enduro or trail bike depending on what you figured out about yourself with your first bike (a proper trail bike will cost you more than a proper enduro, because weight on a trail bike is more of a hinderance). The reason, why I put the full sus so early, is because you can build confidence extremely quickly on those. Don't focus that much on line choice, figure it out! The suspension will save your ass a lot, but you will get more confident!
2. Entry level road bike: Great for commuting (if you can park it somewhere safe) and you will become addicted to speed, as said in the video.
3. Trail Hardtail: At some point you will reach a plateau where your progression will slow massively on your full sus. This is, because your lazy line choices will really slow you down. You also won't really realize yet, how far you can actually push your enduro, because you are still holding back. That's where the Hardtail comes in:
With your prebuilt confidence from the full sus, the hardtail won't hold you back, but it will force you to consider line choice. It will also teach you hopping over features in the terrain to skip them. You will get comfortable with intense hits and really fast vibrations and kinda stop caring about them. At some point when you finally go back to your full sus, you will immediately get a lot faster and you will have unlocked the mid skill ceiling you previously hit with your full sus.
4. Custom Monstercross build (or gravel if you don't want to go full custom): Hear me out! You wanna really go places, but also want to ride chunk? Build yourself a completely custom Monstercross/ Dropbar mtb.
5. Sell the Entry level road bike and get a really nice road bike. Hydro disc brakes are really nice when going 80+ kmh at the descents.
6. For all you europeans a 5th bike: Get a cargo bike, these are seriously useful and depending on your living situation make your car more or less obsolete
That black Aventon looks fire 🔥🔥
Thanks, custom build!
Lol, I've 140mm recon hardtail, a 105 road bike, a 140/140 trail bike...but a city bike, nearly the same set up tho
diz are like my bikes,
jumper, fixie, urban
mtb, ghravel, road and fixie/single speed.
I am way off bvecause gravel, 2 retro'ish mtb's, assembling third, well used road bike with partly carbon frame.
nice vid, what is that liquid you're pouring on stuff before cleaning, brake clean orrrr....???
for frame and stuff covered with paint i use Wd-40 cleaner and degreaser, for shifters and derailleurs I use WD-40 because its a stronger degreaser and cleaner but may damage paint so thats why I dont use it on paint too often!
I used to be just a 2 bike person, hardtail Xc and an Aero roadbike. Then I wanted something in between. Enter the Gravel Bike.
I own 2 road bikes and a fixed gear . Bout to get a mtn bike next
Fixed gear
Road bike
Hard tail
Gravel bike.
That’s it that covers all your bases.
you need to get a touring bike and a folding bike too.
How in the world do you have a list about bikes without having the BMX bike? WoW...
cause bmx bikes makes your back hurt as soon as you're older than 20
@CyberCreeper22 I will be 45 an ride my crusier (26in) every day!
Race
Endurance
Aero
TT
Fun Video, but I would have taken the single speed roadbike. I think I would have taken a second bike for the discipline I do most.
Bad boy for streetride/commute
CAAD12 for hill climb
CAAD13 disc for crit racing
Kona Heihei for XC marathon😂
Atb‘s and electric city bikes are the choice so you don‘t need four✌🏻
hear me out: a fixie gravelbike
It’s a thing actually!!
4 bikes:
Fast road bike
Gravel tourer
Commuter fixie
hard tail mtb
There's really no place near me to ride a mountain bike like a mountain bike and I'm not gonna drive three hours to get in a fifteen minute ride before i have to head back. LOL
And I'd swap out the fixed gear for a single speed with a freewheel. You'll get most of the benefits of a fixed gear without the risk of tossing yourself over the handlebars by forgetting to pedal.
Wait u rebranded your account
Yes, yes I did. More personable and don’t know if I’m going to be able to run my shop full time in college, may branch out and do other types of content relative to racing, auto and engineering stuff too!
I have one bike that I use for everything. Trails, skate parks, street, long adventure rides, whatever. it's a single speed enduro with maxxis assegais front and rear and the saddle slammed all the way down. it pedals like shit but I don't care, it's fun.
Only 4 ….Why so few bikes ?
Replace the road bike with a recumbent for more speed and grocery getting power and fit a high end hard tail, skip the stupid fixie, and you are set for LIFE.
Two bikes is all you need.
Man, doing the tricycles dirty. Gotta have those big ol booty baskets to haul your stuff around!
You say first bike as if people have the luxury to choose their first bike as adults and haven't already ridden a BMX through childhood and a cheap hardtail through adolescence. Also for me it's a rigid MTB with nice plush tires and mudguards as a commuter, and a cyclocross or gravel bike for rides.
Coaster brake, steel road bike with bullhorns:
Lightweight, quick and nimble, always in the wrong gear, poor brakes (but better brake power than fixed gear skidding), almost indestructible and more reliable than any bike I ever had...
Then I would buy a cargo bike and a Brompton copycat.
Stop ripping on department store bike's.. there's a very fine line between the two now a days.. those department store bike's all got us going in the beginning.... Y'all act like pros...😂😅
hardtail
full sus
dirt jumper
gravel
I got a funny story to tell . Yesterday I took my road bike to the trail and there was this group of dudes riding Walmart bikes who started talking shit about my bike . Saying I had a little kid bike and I’m a grown man . When most of these dudes there including himself was riding Huffy’s woman drop frames bikes . So if someone is making fun of you is because they are ignorant and probably don’t know anything about bikes.
I had a lad mock me at work for riding a single speed carbon road bike... He was on an pedal assist Halfords bike ( your Walmart bike ) he apologised the next day... When he realised how F**KING fast I was and he couldn't keep up even running out of gears, I have a 52T chainring 🤷 takes a second to get going but once she's gone she's gone.
I've never heard of anyone calling a road bike a kid's bike before. Nobody's making drop bar bikes for kids these days. In fact I've only ever seen one in my life and it was when i was a kid and a boy in my neighborhood had a kid's size drop bar bike with coaster brakes. Don't know who made that thing.
Fixed Gear, Dirt Jumper/BMX/Trials, Hardtail MTB, Full Sus
Fixed gear. F that. Might as well ride a kids tricycle and have the cranks on the wheel.
Missed a "dude" at 2:03... Disliked and reported for fraudulent content, this can't fly in 2024! 😂
Thanks for calling me out, I have to make an apology video now...
@@themarwanrahal Ya dun' goofed, the consequences will never be the same.