Workshop Chatter: How To Properly Set Up Your Mountain Bike
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 3 ก.ค. 2024
- Are you considering how you should set up your mountain bike?
STOP right there a minute and let's have a chat.
SO many people come to us looking to buy a bike that's built around their one week a year in the Alps. Or those few days a year in the bike park. They put big travel FIRST and build a big, hardcore, downhill-focussed, gravity machine but NOT the lively, spritely, easy-to-ride, fun bike that better suits the trails they're riding 75% of the time.
In this episode we're talking all about how travel isn't the most important factor in speccing your mountain bike. We're also talking about how you should setup your suspension to better suit your riding and how wheels, tyres and inserts play a part in all of this.
Grab a cuppa and strap in - this one's a bit of a brain melter!
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I agree with your comments about wheels and stability. I have several Emtbs but my favourite setup is my old 2018 carbon levo now with 170mm Fox 38's, 29 x3.0 front and yes 27.5 x 3.25 rear tyre both with Tannis armour + tubes . Effectively 30 inch rolling heavy wheels with fantastic suspension effect within the big tyres at 16psi.Also I only run 25% sag front and 20% rear. At 62kg (nearly back to my birth weight) it all works well for me being extremely easy on my body punching though long 30min rock garden decents. Emtbs are a totally different experience to steam bikes where bike weight is your friend especially for lightweight riders. Silence is also golden. I also run a Rohloff hub for less vulnerability to sticks destroying the annoying fiddly derailleur . The early Brose aluminium case motor is really the Quietest, smoothest most natural feeling motor ever built and having 2 x 500wh batteries are better than one 700wh on the latest bikes. The forks and big tyres lift the bike make it more stable and with short 150mm cranks nearly eliminate pedal strikes. Thats why E=Mtb² for me and how and where I ride. The magic of Emtbs is that they turn us into gleeful kids again and broaden our ability to explore terrain multiplying the joy of one of mans greatest gravity cheating inventions the bicycle. They are a Time Machine. E=Mtb²
I love Joe's view of bike building a tuning. Coming from a motorsports background, I have had a hard time understanding why some bike companies do what they do. These videos are refreshing.
Can't agree more re; wheels (of course!). 100% true that the right wheels and good choice of rubber are THE way to make a good bike into a a great bike!
Really honoured to have so many of my wheelsets across so many of your bikes @StarlingCyles! Many happy customers abound :-)!
Keep up the good work Joe and Co.!
Loving your work sir!
Thanks for this! Bought a Murmur about a year ago and still had a few little questions that were answered here. Best bike I've ever owned and I'll have it the rest of my life.
That's SO good to hear - thanks - enjoy it and get it in touch if you need anything!
Thank you Joe! Love the content and I appreciate you taking the time to share your bike knowledge with these informative videos. Happy holidays!
really informative! looking forward to a video re: dynamic sag you’ve mentioned addressing
Cheers - watch this space!
Would absolutely love to hear from you about what a Swoop or 27.5 is going to give you versus a Murmur or 29. Not so much as 27.5 versus 29 because that has been debated in nauseating frequency but more the Swoop versus Murmur. That would be a great video. And yes…I want a Starling but I’m trying to figure out which one. 😊
Wheelsize does have a big impact in differences between Swoop and Murmur, see Tech Blog on subject on website. Otherwise, the chainstay length is important, Swoop is shorter chainstay for more pop and ability for manuals, Murmur longer and more stable. Pick the compromise that best fits your riding style.... Email via the website and I can discus further.
Getting my Murmur in a few days. I want to build it aggressive trial/AM since most of my riding is rocky and Rooty. Plus I live enduro.
I was going to run in 135 rear and 150 fork.
Thoughts?
PS, I agree on the tires and wheels. I like a heavy set for rough trails and a lighter set for more flow, less tech single track.
Have you got any medium Roosts due in?
Looking at Autumn 23 for those - keep an eye on our social / sign up to the mailing list and we'll let you know!
How's the e bike coming along
Slowly...