Originally Posted by
Lindenwood
Pablo:
I don't need to mountain bike, but I wanted to. However, while a $2000 bike is better in many ways than my $600 bike, I also didn't need to spend the money on one when a $600 bike would at least get me started enjoying the benefits of MTBing without a huge initial investment, especially knowing there are hundreds of others satisfied with this level of bike performance.
OK, that's completely cool. But then why are you so bent on having tubeless tires of all things, when tubes work perfectly fine?
FWIW, my bike cost a hell of a lot more than $2K, and I run tubes.