Listen: These Are the Mountain Bikes You Should Buy
Singletracks Mountain Bike Podcast
Singletracks.com
4.7 • 574 Ratings
🗓️ 11 December 2017
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Perhaps the number one question we get on social media, via email, and on the Singletracks forums is this one: Which bike should I buy? Choosing a new mountain bike is a big decision, so we’ve dedicated this entire episode to sharing our personal recommendations for mountain bikes in the following categories:
* Hardtail
* XC Race
* Trail 27.5
* Trail 29er
* Enduro
* DH
* Bikes above $4,000
* Bikes under $1,500
For the first six categories, we each choose bikes that retail for less than $4,000 (and in some cases, much less.) We also provide our recommendations for ultra-expensive bikes and budget bikes in the final two categories.
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| 0:34.4 | Hey, everybody. Welcome to the single tracks podcast. |
| 0:39.8 | I'm your host for today, Aaron Chamberlain, |
| 0:45.2 | and I'm joined by Jeff and Greg. It's been a little bit since the three of us have been together on a podcast. A lot of us have been out of the office for various reasons. So anyway, today's |
| 0:51.0 | episode, we're going to answer a question that we get all the time, which is, |
| 0:54.5 | which bike should I buy? |
| 0:56.6 | We get this on the forums, we get it in person, we get it on Facebook, we get it in comments, |
| 1:02.3 | on articles. |
| 1:03.2 | So I thought it maybe it'd be fun to imagine that we had a little bit of money in our pocket |
| 1:08.2 | and we were going to go buy a new bike. |
| 1:10.5 | So have some guidelines in place for this. |
| 1:12.8 | We try to keep a reasonable price. |
| 1:15.4 | I know some of you will scoff at the saying $4,000 max price is reasonable. |
| 1:20.7 | That's pretty crazy, that that's kind of like a mid-range bike these days. |
| 1:24.4 | But that's the world we live in. |
| 1:26.4 | So we're going to go through a few different |
| 1:27.9 | categories. We're going to do a hardtail XC, so that's a purpose-built, you know, cross-country |
| 1:33.6 | race bike, can do a trail 27-5, a trail 29, all mountain slash enduro, a downhill bike, |
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