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Hi.
I'm looking to buy a new bike soon and thought a quick straw poll of bike ridden/time taken for total stages, with category might be a totally useless tool to help me decide! Thanks.
p.s. i am demoing bikes currently.
2016 Stumpy Ali 29er/27:17. Veteran.
I’m in veterans, I did 25mins on a turner flux 120mm rear travel. 140mm front
2016 Bird Aeris 25:04 Vets
Not sure what this thread will tell you but, 2016 Trance Advanced 140/140 travel, vets <strong class="ftw">26:40.73
2015 Mk1 Bird Aeris with broken rear mech.
1973 Asthmatic with bruised ribs and Sciatica.
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25:59
Four of us in Sport Master all 36-37 all SC Nomads, 3 x mk4 and a mk2. Apart from me all with a pretty good level of fitness and had ridden the Marathon the day before.
8th
11th
103rd
312th (definitely due the the mk2 and nothing to do with my fitness of ability)
Rider > what bike you ride...
As much as it makes no difference Whyte G160 (160mm front rear )
508th from the 1200 on the day in the sport 27.08m with 3 hours hungover sleep and a strapped shoulder due to rotor cuff with warnings from the wife that we fly out in 10 days ****head be careful !
Last year same bike no injures and a start time of 11am not 7.45am 22m iirc
me, 2018 rallon, enduro vets, 23.18
my mate, polygon, enduro masters, 21.37
we both had issues with slower riders, my mate much more than me.
my mate still would of been way quicker than me on his old knackered gaint.
24 mins in masters.
Very fat and unfit,, trying to decide if I should throw up or crap myself.
Riding a liteville 301
Thanks for the replies so far. Interesting variety of stuff out there. Bigfoot, were you the chap talking to my mate, also with the Rallon at the top of 1 & 2 on Sunday?
23 1/2 mins on the vets on an 2016 sb6 with a major hold up on 7. Mate rode a 21 and a bit in vets on a transition patrol, another did a 24mins on a steel hardtail.
Not sure how Ard Rock times can relate to bike manufacturers, too many variables, tyres / suspension/ rider ability/ fitness/ age ( maybe not given peatys time) etc .
not me tooby, raced saturday so was at home sunday.
i did notice a lot of rallons there over friday and saturday.
Cheers pal, a handful of Rallons around Sunday too.
23 minutes in masters, airdrop edit.
Mate had similar on a mondraker dune in vets
other mate had 25 minutes on a Santa Cruz Bronson 2
2017 Orange Five.
Masters.
DNF due to rear maxle snapping on a big compression near the end of stage 2, with bike and rider doing a synchronised front flip, clearing the race tape....
23 mins in Grand Vets in the Enduro on a 2014 Spesh Enduro, could have gone much quicker but slashed my rear tyre on the start of S3 ! Gutted
Last year rode a smuggler (140/115) and this year rode an 18my enduro coil. Smuggler was 30lbs, enduro is 33.
Ardrock isn't that steep, there is a fair bit of pedalling, it's fast and sections of the stages are very rough (stage 2 braking bumps!).
Was arguably fitter when I did it in 2017 and 2016, so thought I was going to suffer on the pedally bits. Made a big jump forward in riding over the past year.
62nd in sport masters this year, 223rd last year (mechanical on stage 6, brake line came off the fork??)
Times for every stage were quicker on the enduro, it didn't get held up in the rough stuff like the smuggler did and so carried a lot more speed everywhere as a result. Could also be a bit more lairy with line choices, gapping bits as you had a bit more of safety net.
The stumpy coil on the plush stand looked mega, currently considering at stumpy st to go alongside the enduro for trail riding. Enduro is great, but on flatter/xc stuff it's well, I can justify another bike 😂
"Last year same bike no injures and a start time of 11am not 7.45am 22m iirc"
You missed the bit about it being only six stages.
Wasn't there that old fella Steve something who whooped all the young kids this year - so whatever he was on
Specialized Enduro Coil
20.37 in Masters
Cube Stereo 140 HPC 29er modded to be slack and low with a different shock stroke so approx. 130 mm rear travel with a 150 mm fork out front.
25:00 dead in Masters.
But that's with around 2 minutes* rolling around in pain after hitting the deck hard on stage 4.
So don't get one of them, they'll make you crash on stage 4. (Actually, thinking about it, I've only ever crashed hard twice at 'Ard Rock and both times were on stage 4 - may be you're on to something, I obviously need a new bike)
*Estimated based on relative position on other stages where I didn't bin it.