looking to buy a new bike and i need to know what companies make good mountain bikes for dirt jumping
Rocky Mountain and Kona too! The "Kona Clump" Freeride team are some of the best freeriders in the world - Robbie Bourdon, John Cowan, Dave Watson, Paul Basagoitia, Lluis Lacondeguy, Andreu Lacondeguy and Grant "Chopper" Fielder. Check out New World Disorder VII for some of their work…
Hahaha back at you sammy c - who do you think gives a manufacturer the best input into what they are breaking? Yes - their sponsored riders. Wheel building? Kona doesn’t build their own wheels - Rocky is one of the few - and what a price jump in their built bikes due in part to that attention to detail. Cannondale is almost bankrupt (can’t afford to advertise and distribution sucks), Specialized should stick to XC MTBs and road bikes, Gary Fisher bikes are Treks under the paint and should stick to XC MTBs and 29ers. I agree that Santa Cruz are good frames - but don’t break them (warranties take forever) and don’t order a custom adonized colour - unless you want delivery next year…
Hi,
I want to buy a mountain bike for the summer. I’m only going to use the bike once a week. I don’t want to get a cheep bike and I don’t want to pay to much, something middle class. I wanted it to have disk brakes and aluminum frame. I’m open to any suggestions
Thanks!
A nice bike with those specs is a Diamondback Response. Comparing this bike to models from Trek or Specialized will reveal that it has 1 grade higher components on it for the same price.
i want to get a fairly decent mountain bicycle but that does not cost me the earth. have seen all sorts of wonderful looking bikes with springy suspention and 18+ gears but haven’t really got a clue what i’m looking at. what is important and what isn’t??
Visit the local bike shops and talk with them. A full suspension bike from Walmart or any other department store will be total junk.
One would think that with all the responsible hard-working cyclists who have had nice bicycles stolen, it would be common place to see hoodlums, thugs, vandals, and other varieties of low-lifes riding nice bikes through the ghetto. However, this is not the case.
I have seen some fairly rough characters riding high-end bikes, but I think a lot of them steal the bikes and front them for $$.
Many bikes are never recovered because people don’t report them to the police, or they don’t have serial numbers recorded, and that makes it impossible to nail someone for a stolen bike during a bike stop (which the cops in my town do a fair amount of, and often check the S/Ns against the records).
I once had summer job assembling bikes from stolen bike parts purchased at a police auction. Harvard and MIT students were our best customers!
My newly adopted, 2 year old Podenco/Pointer mix dog is afraid of bicycles and in-line skaters. We live near a popular cycle track which is perfect for walking her, but she barks at bikes and skates all the time. She also lunges towards the people on them. We walk her there all the time to "socialize" her, but her behaviour continues. How can we help her conquer her fears?
A good place to start would be with desensitization. Desensitization is a training technique that reinforces the things that scare, worry, or upset a dog into good, happy things.
Start in your front yard. The level of her fear will determine how far away to put her from the bikes/skaters. If she can handle a bike riding past at twenty feet with no problems, start there. If not put the bike or her farther away until it is not a distraction. Have a lot of small (pea sized), soft treats. Hot dogs, soft training treats, or lunch meat is perfect. No milk bones or kibble. Make these treats the best she has ever gotten. Then have someone ride by on a bike or skates. While the bikes or skates are around her she should be getting these treats rapid fire. One after the other and tell her she’s such a good girl. If the treats are not enough to distract her from the bike, move her away and try again with her or the bike a little farther away. And repeat the process. Make sure to never give her treats in these sessions UNLESS the bikes or skates are present. The purpose is to get her to see these objects as the source of the treats. If the bikes aren’t around, she doesn’t get treats.
As she starts to see these "scary" things as a wonderful things, decrease the distance between her and the bikes gradually. If you push her too far, you will lose ALL of your hard work in an instant. And if you move too close too soon, immediately move back to the last distance you had success with. As you move more into the training and she is getting more and more comfortable with a certain distance, add more bikes and skates. Then before you move to a closer distance remove the extra and start again with only one.
It is going to take a while for her to completely see all the bikes and all the skaters as good things. So don’t get discouraged. It’s going to take consistency and repetition. And she may not ever be completely OK with bikes or skates. But her level of stress and fear may decrease to where you will be able to take her for walks around them.
I would refrain from taking her to the bike track until she is very far in her training. One trip to the bike track too soon and everything can be undone.
So good luck and remember to work hard with her. It will pay off.
what brands make the best quality mountain bikes? best answer will be given asap
Subjective question there. Some of the best are Kona, Rocky Mountain, Santa Cruz, Specialized, Gary Fisher, Trek, Intense, Scott, Jamis, Norco, GT
I’m getting into mountain biking and have been looking around, although I really don’t know how to tell if it’s too small? I fit an 18" or 19" frame very nicely, but how do I know when I’m just too small for the bike?
I’m not asking how to measure myself. I’m asking what signs I’ll see and feel on a bike that’s too small.
Its too small when you climb & cant stretch your torso out to spread the weight. And if you’re sitting upright when riding flats. And, tho’ you should be able to straddle over the top bat, not when your on the seat & your leg should almost, but not quite fully extend on the down stroke.
I got a Dirt/Street bicycle, a Scott Voltage YZ 1, you can check the specs out by typing Scott Voltage yz 1 on google…
Ive been trying to jump, but all I have been able to do so far is to raise the front wheel, which is not a real jump, I want to raise both wheels.
Without a ramp of course, just on flat ground.
I know BMXs have this easier but I got an MTB and I know it is possible.
The Voltage is a sweet ride, nice… Whether its a MTB or BMX the technique is the same and, contrary to what most people will suggest, it isnt really about only pulling "up"… though the key is in the arms.
The biggest problem people make when trying to hop their bikes is using too much ‘leg’ and not enough arm in getting the bike up. The primary component of the hop is your wheelie. Basically, when done correctly your rear wheel ends up at the height you’ve brought your front wheel to so the higher you get your front wheel, the higher your back wheel will naturally want to go.
First, pull up and get your front wheel to the height you want to hop. Once you’ve reached the highest point with your front wheel, begin to pull up with your feet while push your handlebars forward with your arms. Practice….
If you want to get a good idea of what I mean, you can actually see the process without even being on your bike. Stand beside your bike and grip your bars as though you were riding it. Lift your front wheel and then push forward with your arms and watch your rear wheel as you do this, you’ll see it naturally lifts up as you push the bike forward.
i want to buy a dimondback bike for dirt jumping in the 400-$699 range. The hardtail bikes. Which one is the best for that purpose?
why a diamond back any good bike like schwinn or mongoose will do just as good and possibly cheeper in price.
We don’t have a car and we have two parking spots so we put two bicycles in them. Today my landlord said it looks "tacky" and we need to move them. I feel I should be able to put them there. Does he have a legal right to say I can’t? Each apartment comes with two parking spots.
read the lease if silent then the landlord can do nothing, he/she can not add terms condition during the lease