It’s been a while since we’ve seen XC hardtails on the cross country world cup scene, but it’s no wonder because XC full-suspension bikes can way no more than a kilo more.
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29 Comments
I'm rocking a hard tail. Full suspension is fun for mountain and jumping but hard tails are my jam
I've never owned a full sus… did ride once about 15 years ago.😂
I love my Rocky Mountain soul 29er
Suspension sounds better. Sus is agenda speak.
Hardtails will die when good budget full suspension bike start existing
Ful sus
I love that
I think I love this lassie!
full sus?
I dunno she looks pretty fucking fit to me loool
I feel like full sus is safer but may rob people of skill if they only ever used them.
Last time i rode my hc hardtail with a guy who was on a fullsus and I did a lot less pedaling and still was faster. Cant beat a hardtail
A heavier bike will travel downhill faster than a lighter bike
I don't like going up and down on small offroads😎 hardtail are best
Well well well, and I say this instead of saying I told ya dudes so..yep…I did.
Did ya listen to oldschool? No…ya made fun of him ridin his 26" hardtail didn't ya?
Lol Hardtails are nowhere near dead, I would never give up my Nukeproof Scout hard tail, it's a beast…
full sus bikes are pretty sus though (pun intended)
“Full susses”😂😂😂
Anna only popped into my radar recently. However, now I click all her videos. 👍🏼
you are not helping anybody with this
1st world problems
I’ve never owned a full sus. Only hard tail. So fun.
Why does she use Sus suspension… Is it a new brand? I'm suss.
Real speed is a hard tail
#pinkbike
My wife just did 10 under the Ben on a hard tail…..we won our class.
I don't care what people say about high quality materials and angles and all the research into bikes………the prices are still wayyy tooooo ridiculously high !!!!! The price of a second hand golf GTi ????? And to say the engineering is of a higher level than a car is absolutely BULLSHIT. Who the foook do they think they are talking to???? You think we buy that BULLSHIT???
In the bin
They are dressed in drop bars and called gravel bikes now
I think we need to stop basing things on what World Cup racers are doing. Honestly, they are going to ride whatever their sponsors give them to ride. If a manufacturer wants them to ride their latest full suspension model, then that's what they will ride.
Most highly skilled sponsored riders I have met know very little about bikes. Ask them detailed questions and they won't know the answer. Sure, a few of them will, but most of them don't.
So we really should be talking about and marketing bikes for the average rider out there who isn't doing World Cup races.
I had the chance to either buy a cheap full sus or a quality hardtail… I decided to buy a 2021 Meta HT frame (brushed/raw aluminium) and built a burger with the lot.
Very happy with my choice, it sees black runs regularly and with a 140mm Pike Ultimate, it climbs as well as it goes down.
Would never give it up