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I've been cycling on my cx bike & rd bike a lot lately.
On Sunday I did around 20miles on my Turner Flux - it just felt to dam slow and draggy!
thinking of building my HT back up with a rigid fork
Before anyone says I'm as fit as I've ever been at the mo.
only other thing I can think of is changing the nobby nic on the rear and put a ralph on (the nobbys hardly a slow tyre though)
apart from descends & tech stuff I found it all quite tedious!
Maybe you need to move to somewhere with better tech riding.
it's the same for most people, you're not alone
my MTB is a top fuel so in theory no slouch, but last time i went out on it, about 2 months ago, it drained the will to live, slow, unreponsive, heavy.
It's the smaller wheels, . . . get a 29er . . .
when they first came out I scoffed at them, . . but I put my prejudice aside, and now its the only bike I have.
I love it.
Yep same here, took my MTB out two weeks ago it pedalled crap handled like a battle hovercraft and the riding position felt pants too!! That's what a year of CX and road riding does fr you Fittness through the roof skills have gone on the tetchy techy stuff! Noticed that trails I'd pedal like mad on my HT I was really twitchy on my FS. Practice I reckon!! What an excuse to get out!! 😆
Become a roadie?
Firm up your shock and forks and put some psi in your tyres, loads of sag and low tyre pressures have this effect, great going DH in the dry, crap for XC in the slop.. 😉
I ride around the west Pennines - Sunday I rode around Belmont - up San Marino and upto the Pike, round the gardens, icecream run then over Belmont rd and back home. so its quite varied in terms of terrain.
I'm going to build my rocklobster back up I think it will be more direct - I'll use swap the wheels between my flux and rocklobster.
29er...I would love...my wife would kill me! 😆
I remeber switching from road (touring and commuting) bikes to mtb way, way back in the mid 80s and feeling utterly dissapointed ! Despite buying (then) a relatively light, well specced mtb, it felt so slow and tedious.
As I began to ride more properly offroad and more serious technical stuff the mtb all began to make sense.
Without wishing to start another "debate", though I can't help but feel that just maybe 650b is where it all should have been at in the first place. Meantime and for the forseeable, I'm 26" through and through.
I think higher pressure, faster rolling tyres on a ht with firm forks or rigid would be better just as good as a 29er - but I've never been on a 29er!
you need to ride more of the fun bits and less of the boring bits.
mtfu and stop riding it like a road bike 😛
Get some air under it's wheels. That'll get you going again.
I did 21.5 miles and 3600 feet rather slowly on the full rigid last Sunday and felt ball-bagged on Monday; it made me realise that mountain biking is a lot more all-round physical than road riding even though it doesn't build the same levels of aerobic fitness.
I usualy find the opposite, the road bike never feels as quick as I imagine it's going to. I think it's because all my routes start by turnin out the door and going up a 1in3 for half a mile so all will to live is crushed before the rides even got going. At least on the MTB I can turn right at the top of the hill rather than riding through a procession of old mining villages with the ironicly named "working mens club" to get to the good bits.
kudos100 - Member
mtfu and stop riding it like a road bike
Agreed mate agreed!! 😆
It is hard in the slop, barely got above a fast walking pace all year, but still grab any chance I can get (current once a week is doing my head in) to get on to my bike (mtb). It's the place I'm really happy.