Top 8 Mountain Bike Set Up Hacks

Top 8 Mountain Bike Set Up Hacks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUtIgY6ozAs
From dialling in your lever position to customising your tyres, Blake, Doddy, and Neil have got some top hacks to improve your bike set up.

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Shifter position is often overlooked part of setting up your bike. Have a think about where your thumbs will naturally rest when you are in your riding position.

Tall riders often find they cannot get there bars wide enough. To slightly extend your bar width, move your lock on grips so they extend a bit beyond the end of your bars.

To tidy your cockpit, use a spiral cable binder to tie two loose cables together. Alternatively, you can use a cable tie and a washer.

Especially useful in wet and muddy conditions, try adding some grip tape to your controls to stop your fingers slipping off.

Don’t be afraid to cut or file down certain parts of your tyres tread to get exactly the ride characteristics you want from them.

To stop your front brake hose rattling, use a cable tie and a washer to tie it to your fork. If you are running a front mudguard, this can also be a way to neatly mount it to your fork.

Front mudguards are quite easy to make yourself, alternatively you can get yourself a very smart GMBN one.

When setting the rebound on your rear shock, think about what sort of riding you tend to do. If you regularly hit big jumps, you might want to slow down the rebound to stop yourself getting bucked off on hard landings. Alternatively if you do a lot of downhill riding, you might want a faster rebound to ensure you keep traction on rough or Rooty sections of trail.

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How To Choose The Right Dropper Post For You

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Thanks to Crank Brothers for the products used in this video. All opinions expressed are the presenter’s own.

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Dropper posts can make a huge difference to your riding, but there are a few things to take into consideration before buying one. Neil tells you how to make sure you only buy the dropper post that will fit both you and your bike.

Make sure you buy the correct diameter post for your bike
Check whether the post is routed internally or externally
Decide how much drop you want from your post.
An important measurement to take before buying your post is the stack height. That is the measurement from the top of the seat post collar to the saddle rails. Then subtract about 50mm for the dropper post collar and the saddle clamp. This measurement is the maximum length of dropper you can run.
Check the length you can insert the seat post into your frame before it hits an obstruction. For example, a bend in the tube, or the actual rear shock itself.
Ensure the dropper post won’t be further out from the frame than the minimum insertion mark.

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With the help of our pro and ex-pro riding team we’re here to inform, entertain and inspire you to become a better mountain biker, including videos on:

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– Fix everything with pro know-how
– Ride anything with world-cup winning skills
– Dial in your bike with bike set-up advice
– In-depth entertaining features
– Chat, opinion and interact with us on the Dirt Shed Show

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Fabien Barel’s Canyon Strive CF | GMBN Pro Bikes

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2x Downhill World Champion Fabien Barel is famously in-tune with his bikes. For most riders, this just means that they’re picky about their set up, maybe even getting out the tape measure every now again. But for Fabien it’s different. He’s so in tune with what’s happening on the bike that a lot of his creative development and design input went in to actually designing the Strive. He’s riding the bike that he helped to design…how cool is that?

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Frame: Canyon Strive in Custom blue/black
Forks: Rockshox Lyrik 180mm
Shock: Rockshox Monarch Plus RC3
Wheels: Mavic Deemax Pro 27.5
Tyres: Prototype Mavic Charge rear and Mavic Claw Front
Bars: Renthal Fat bar 780mm 31.8mm w/30mm rise
Grips: Ergon GA2 Grips
Stem: Renthal Apex 50mm
Seatpost: Rockshox Reverb 150mm drop
Saddle: Ergon SME3S w/ carbon rails
Brakes: Sram Guide Ultimate
Rotors: Sram Centerline – 200mm front, 180 rear
Shifters: Sram XO1 Eagle
Chain: Sram Eagle Chain
Chain guide: E-thirteen
Chainset: Sram Eagle XO1
Rear mech: Sram XO1 Eagle
Cassette: Sram XO1 Eagle Cassette, 10-50t
Pedals: Crankbrothers Mallet DH

Bar width: 780mm
Stem length: 50mm

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– How to ride faster with expert knowledge
– Fix everything with pro know-how
– Ride anything with world-cup winning skills
– Dial in your bike with bike set-up advice
– In-depth entertaining features
– Chat, opinion and interact with us on the Dirt Shed Show

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How To Safety Check A Retro Mountain Bike | GMBN Freak Week

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This beauty, is Doddy’s very retro Diamondback Sorento as used in GMBN’s ‚Weirder Rides’ Halloween special (http://gmbn.eu/WeirderRides). It’s complete with it’s original Tiger stripe paint job and Doddy like it so much he’s made it his new run-around! Pub bike, Beater, Clunker, Town bike…whatever you like to call them, this is how you safety check and maintain a retro mountain bike!

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Mountain bike standards, engineering and materials have progressed a long way since the time of this Sorento and pretty much everything is different from your modern mountain bike!

With that in mind here are some checks to carry out before buying a second hand bike. A full safety check is essential before riding, but also highly advised before purchase if you want to be smart with your money! Once you’ve got one though, you’ll want to be sure to know how to maintain it!

Now get out there and have fun on it!

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The Global Mountain Bike Network is the best MTB YouTube channel, with videos for everyone who loves dirt: from the full-faced helmet downhill mountain biker to the lycra-clad cross country rider along with everyone and anyone in between.

With the help of our pro and ex-pro riding team we’re here to inform, entertain and inspire you to become a better mountain biker, including videos on:

– How to ride faster with expert knowledge
– Fix everything with pro know-how
– Ride anything with world-cup winning skills
– Dial in your bike with bike set-up advice
– In-depth entertaining features
– Chat, opinion and interact with us on the Dirt Shed Show

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