- This is the Geek Edition
of the full suspension versus hard-tail,
"What is a more fun?" video.
So let's talk about our bikes,
how we set them up and get into the nitty-gritty.
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My bike is the Scott Genius 700 tuned.
It costs £6999, that's the retail.
So we know mountain-biking can be expensive.
Doesn't have to be, but you can
throw a lot of money at things.
But what do you get on these premium bikes?
Well there's lots of stuff goes into making these things,
lots of R and D, you've got loads
of carbon fiber on this bike,
so it's a carbon front end and back end, linkage.
I've got a one piece carbon bar and stem.
I've got a lockout so that's pretty cool.
It's a 150 mil travel bike but it goes down to 100.
And a full lockout on the front and rear.
So, it's a really versatile bike,
and you do have to pay for these things.
So this bike can run two different size wheels.
At the minute I've got the DT Swiss M1825
29 wheels in there, you can put some 27.5 plus in here,
you've got that flip link there.
So when you swap wheels out you just flip that over.
So, again it makes it really versatile.
All internal routing, so I've got a dropper post,
I've got the cable that goes to my rear shock,
the rear brake hose, the rear derailer,
all goes through the bike, nice
and smooth, really great looking frame.
Again, premium drive train on this bike,
so I've got that SRAM Eagle,
that masssive cassette, 52 from the rear.
Also got a carbon fiber crank,
so SRAM X01, all premium stuff of course.
Kashima, Kashima fork on this.
Did have a Kashima shock but I actually
scratched the shaft on that so it's got replaced.
All that means that this bike,
super capable, 150 mil travel bike,
and it weighs in at 26 pounds,
so, lighter than Blake's bike.
All the latest mountain bike tech,
it's got boost-spaced hubs, it's got
a beautiful carbon fiber frame,
look at that bar and stem.
This is the pinnacle of modern mountain bike technology.
Strong, light, cheap, pick two of them.
Strong and light.
- Yeah, right yours is lighter, yours is more money.
But, mine's more affordable, mine's £1699.
It's 30 pounds, that is 13.7 kilos.
It's not as light as yours but
this is an aggressive hard-tail.
It's got 140 mil travel up front.
It has no gubbins on the rear.
So it's super simple, it's minimalistic,
nothing to go wrong on the rear.
It's aluminium, this is the Nukeproof Scalp 27.5 plus size.
There's no carbon fiber on this bike.
I have a drop-post so I can slam that saddle,
when it comes to those rough sections,
descending out there on the trail.
I got these 2.6 Conti Der Baron tires.
So I got a little bit more give in these tires,
when it comes to a bit more of a rough terrain.
Plus it's got quite a bit of grip there.
Also, the benefits about this,
is you can let down the pressures,
you can run a little bit of a low pressure in these tires,
so you can get a lot more grip on that bike.
When it comes to riding a bit of a rough section,
a trail like what we did in the previous video,
where we put these two head to head.
I don't have any carbon so I can use this bike,
doesn't matter if I get a rock that hits up,
cos it's not carbon, it's not gonna effect it,
it's just gonna bend it, and plus
what I've got on this bike is boost, front and rear.
So that's giving this bike a lot more rigidity,
so you can push it a lot more,
so you don't feel it flex as much out on the trail.
Okay, suspension wise then; my setup on this bike.
Well (laughs), look at that.
Super simple, no rear supsenion.
But up the front I've got these RockShox Revelations.
They're 140 mil in travel, so there's a lot of travel there.
I've got them set up really plush
because I haven't got them locked out
like I would if I had it on my full suspension bike,
because I want the front suspension to work,
because I'm going through a lot
of physical effort down a trail,
trying to guide this thing as fast as I can
down the trail and have as much fun as possible,
so I want that as plush as possible.
Okay, my drive train on this bike
is Shimano SLX and that's one by eleven.
If I was running a two-bar up the front,
that means I would have an extra
bigger sprocket up the front,
because my "bb" is quite low and
it's an aggressive hard-tail,
if I had a big sprocket up the front
I'll be smacking all those rocks.
So talk about that front chain ring,
I've got a 32 toothed sprocket up the front.
I feel like on the climbs it's perfect,
I can just spin out, climb,
I can get up some super steep situations.
But now it's got a bit drier,
I feel like I'm spinning out on that 32 tooth,
so maybe a 54 would be beneficial
when it comes to a bit of dry terrain.
But in the winter, the 32 tooth will come in handy.
A few weeks ago I did a video on
how clipped, being clipped into
your bike can be super beneficial,
on a hard-tail, when it comes to rough sections.
And I said I'd be having them on my bike,
well I haven't actually got them on my bike
at the moment, because I was a bit scared,
going down some of those rough sections,
I thought being clipped into it,
I really wanted to get my foot out
quickly as possible, cos it was rough,
and I'm not used to being clipped in,
so, I'm running flats on this bike.
But there's one thing that I really really
want to point out is that this bike is super rigid,
meaning it's super stiff, so when you're pushing it
in the corners the bike is rigid,
it's not twisting, it's not bending,
which I feel like, when you have a rear suspension
you can feel the bike twist and move
underneath you when you're riding it super aggressively,
whereas this is just stiff, it's rigid, it's there.
- There is a quick bike check
of the bikes we rode in the video,
full suspension versus hard-tail, what is more fun?
If you've not seen it, click
the link over there for that one.
What is more fun? - The hard-tail.
- I think they're both fun.
- Yeah I think they're both fun, bikes are fun.
- But obviously, I like this one, it's great.
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