What are the worst mountain bike trends?
Mountain bikes are awesome, but at the same time, they’re annoying. Incompatible parts, high prices, pointless gadgets, flimsy tyres… the list goes on. You could have the best mountain bike ever made, only for it to be ruined by one or more of these drawbacks.
Bike brands are responsible for some of these, but others are out of their control. Do they really want to rip us off and force us into buying something else?
In this video, we dig deeper into five mountain bike trends we believe need to stop. Now!
Do you think we’ve covered the most annoying mountain bike trends? Let us know what you want to see done differently in the comments.
Chapters
00:00 Intro
00:17 Wireless Frames Only
02:29 More Standards
05:34 Under Specced components
08:17 Price Increases and Discrepancies
09:53 Industry Troubles
5 Mountain Bikes We’d Actually Buy!
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$30 vs $1000 Mountain Bike Brakes
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12 Money-Saving Tips For Mountain Bikers
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Don’t Waste Your Money On These Mountain Bike Upgrades!
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The Best Trail MTB Tyres You Can Buy In 2024
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26 Comments
Looks like Ragley is also goin out of business 😭 their website is offline already for a few days
Sram Clamshell for Cockpit is such a blessing!
Kona's been revived by its old owners!
E-motor mount and battery design evolution and pace keeps me from purchasing a $10,000 bike that will be worth what on the used market? The price of it's parts when the motor and battery becomes obsolete.
I'm not willing to pay to loose money like that.
Those bikes that only take wireless are all 15k. It’s not the cheaper bikes
Sram, if SRAM disappears we can all go back to normal!
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You're really good at talking like a robot.
One thing no one ever says anything about.
1. I could ride a full suspension mountain bike on the road at over 37mph.
2. Once air suspension came out, every bike shop said full suspension is useless for road use. Why?
The max I could only really get was about 27mph down a steep hill. But this was a Cube XSM100 full suspension cross country bike that the bike shop and Cube themselves told me it would be a perfect bike for me for road use. I never did get my money back or a replacement.
The old saying – The best thing with standards is there's so many to choose from…
Wiggle should never have been allowed to merge with CRC, what a disaster.
Long cranks on medium and large bikes 😠 needs to stop
Zip tie those cables to the outside for awesome external cable routing instead of e-derailleur
Scott is a shit bike brand
The wireless only or electronic only frames has been a thing in road bikes since shortly after Di2 came out. And as someone who has been on wireless since it came out and have no desire to ever put a cable groupset back on my bikes, I like the idea of not having a bunch of unneeded holes in my frame for dirt and water to get into, it's also probably getting to the point where OEM can build the bike with wireless for the same cost as cable when build time is factored in.
Electric shift only, It’s about maximizing profit! No cable routing frames cost less to produce and the bike did not get any cheaper! 👍
I buy use from now on, I just recently purchased a Santacruz Hightower v3 with GX AXS AND FOX FACTORY COMPONENTS for 3200, the original buyer probably payed 8k.
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Youtube Video Trends That NEED To Stop:
Cranking up the volume of the music / interludes and muting down the volume when people are actually talking.
If there only was something like audio normalization that they could use to bring the audio to the same level. Must be some unknowable technology from the future.
Wireless frames, agreed! Underspec’d bikes, agreed! (My Hightower 3 came with 180 rotors)
Why would you be able to swap your e bike motor for another brand? Do you complain you can swap the engine in your car for another manufacturer’s engine?
You know there is no VAT in the USA right? We are the ones getting hosed when your price, with VAT is the same or close. I’m assuming it’s because fox is an American company it’s less here. There are so many tariffs, that’s who to blame more than VAT and no VAT.
3:28 me with a 150 x 12 non-boost rear spacing 🫠
Flybarless 2.0
Electronic specific frames = standardization and positive for bike mechanics