Hi all, Nice forum
I used to do loads of onroad races and loved it, until too many serious hit and run type accidents put me off bikes for the last 12 years.
Recently as in last week I bought a baby chair for my 3yr son and took my dad's unused mtb to a game reserve. I used to cycle here when I was young and loved the freedom and gravel roads, but now shees I hated it. I had an oldschool no shock, 18 spd with padded brakes and big seat. I never used to sink as much in the sand and 2.2bar was good. I could also raise or lower the handle bar with a simple allen key.
With my dad's bike he has shocks upfront, left side has a air valve, right side a turn type adjuster. Bottom has a rebound lever. The handle bar can't be raised and when I tried the bottom part of the fork came lose. When pedalling I found the front shock action annoying as it felt as if it sapped my power so I rode on "closed". The tyres recommend min 2.5bar but at that pressure the bike sank fast in sand esp with my kid on the back. It has discs and the brakes feel ok, just I remember right side being front and left being back, this is swopped.
Right I don't hate the bike but obviously I don't know how to set it up for me and how to set the shocks so that I can actually pedal ;(. My older bike had fat tyres which allowed great flotation. I have no idea if this bike is high end or not.
Sorry for the mouthful I just want to get back into things and feel my ignorance is ruining what is probably a good bike.
I'm not interested in what I see on yt, "downhills" but in XC.
I used to do loads of onroad races and loved it, until too many serious hit and run type accidents put me off bikes for the last 12 years.
Recently as in last week I bought a baby chair for my 3yr son and took my dad's unused mtb to a game reserve. I used to cycle here when I was young and loved the freedom and gravel roads, but now shees I hated it. I had an oldschool no shock, 18 spd with padded brakes and big seat. I never used to sink as much in the sand and 2.2bar was good. I could also raise or lower the handle bar with a simple allen key.
With my dad's bike he has shocks upfront, left side has a air valve, right side a turn type adjuster. Bottom has a rebound lever. The handle bar can't be raised and when I tried the bottom part of the fork came lose. When pedalling I found the front shock action annoying as it felt as if it sapped my power so I rode on "closed". The tyres recommend min 2.5bar but at that pressure the bike sank fast in sand esp with my kid on the back. It has discs and the brakes feel ok, just I remember right side being front and left being back, this is swopped.
Right I don't hate the bike but obviously I don't know how to set it up for me and how to set the shocks so that I can actually pedal ;(. My older bike had fat tyres which allowed great flotation. I have no idea if this bike is high end or not.
Sorry for the mouthful I just want to get back into things and feel my ignorance is ruining what is probably a good bike.
I'm not interested in what I see on yt, "downhills" but in XC.