In Yurp they seem to come back. A bunch of manufacturers have released new models or are rumored to do so. It was weird: now that we have more parks there were no park bikes anymore. But with the release of the incredibly flexy new Lyrik (thanks to no 20 mm axle) the manufacturers will bring the appropriate bikes back me thinks. With flexy wheels (650B) to mask the flexy fork. Even more likely they will f*** it up completely and make them Plus-sized or Boost them. Oh well.
Because basically any 6" bike is a park bike. It's either that or a full DH rig.
more options i suppose. i felt the same way until i saw this ad (helped me appreciate them more):
probably the same dudes claiming they can corner just as fast on a 29'er as they did on a 26"
This is everyone I ride with currently and could not be more accurate.
the older i get, the faster i was
Exactly.my Enduro bike gets 90% ride time and I don't afford another expensive dh bike ..i rather buy E-bike.At the very least, your friends still ride.
A lot of my buddies have their bikes hanging in the garage with flat tires. Sad.
I'm old (ish), ride a freedownduro bike (with air suspension too... sorry), but won't have any friends when I'm moving to your neck of the woods. We can be lonely together if you want? I can teach you how to surf and you can teach me about physics and shit?
According the allmighty ridemonkey the Nomad is unrideable. Because VPP, 27,5" and UV radiation.
This is my experience as well, I replaced 3 bikes with my nomad.
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i'm pretty much in the same boat. for how much i'd get for my DH bike, it's worth it to me to hold onto for the limited amount of lift access riding i do these days - compared to what a rental bike would cost.
Meanwhile I'm still over here feeling bad for his buddy wrecking his new bike on the first day and scratching his stankshuns before he even got his forkz dialed in.
I am running a Pike/Vivid, lent it to my bro while his bike was waiting on parts. He could not believe it on an xc ride (he's a pretty strict dh guy)...The bike is next level.
15mm thru axle too?!
You "sensible" people are boring
Fucking Epic Post!Like dildo size and color, I think much of it comes down to personal preference and expectation. If you're riding smooth-ish "flow trails" and/or trails that have a limited amount of proper gnar, then the modern All-duro bikes are probably the best option (save for the Nomad of course). But there's not a 160mm travel bike in the solar system that can provide the same level of stability, traction and solid aggregate annihilation as a well designed DH bike - especially in fast, rough terrain. And at least in my case, a DH bike also helps mitigate some of my (many) poor line choices and provides moar confidence to get weird on jumps or bigger, high consequence moves. Even with my megajizz in gravity (or super gravity) mode, it still gets overwhelmed in brutal, fast sections with successive hits. Now it certainly is an incredibly versatile machine, and if I could only have one bike, it'd definitely be my megajizz. But there's been many times in which I sorely wished for a 24 lb XC hill blaster, and like I said, there's been a few times in which I pined for a legit DH bike on rougher sections of a few trails I've ridden. To wit - last week in fact I rode a "local" lift serve on my TR450 and a buddy rode his pimped our Pivot Mach 6 Crabon, and he couldn't keep me in sight after the first 50 feet or so. Albeit, this was his maiden voyage to this particular place, but he was getting slap wore out towards the end and eventually went ass over tea kettle in a decidedly unpleasant and pointy location (hooray for stanchion nicks and bent derailleurs!). So yes, you can ride rough stuff, and as long as you're intending to keep the pace in check (or you're Jared Graves), you'll be fine on your 6" dildo. But if you've got a lift serve venue which offers some hardcore, pipe swinging rox, an 8.5" double sided black mamba is the preferred solution.
All that said, I still have a DH bike mainly because it's a 2010 model and really not worth selling at this point. If someone nicked it in the parking lot of a ski resort, I'd be hard pressed to make the case for a replacement shred sled (which would mean I would just Bill Cosby Suboptimas Prime and steal his new GG/DH
