Originally Posted by
dminor
I'm sorry stapfam, but you really should stick to your UK bike paths and quit trying to dispense mountain bike "advice."
Just don't buy into the nonsense that one should start out on a hardtail and "graduate" to FS - -that's utter BS that I'm bound and determined to kill dead-dead-dead on this forum.
Mountain bike advice- Thats what the forum is about. And I am not a newbie to mountain biking- But have to admit that I am old school.
And if you want to try our UK bike paths- try the coast to coast Pennine Way - or the easy one- South Downs way in one day. That is where you need bike skills to get through. Bike skills learnt from 16 years of riding hardtails that do what I want them to. AND- the fast boys on the SDW still do it on hardtails- around 8 hours for the 100 miles and 10,000ft of climbing.