>>1916873Every bike has upsides and downsides, that’s why I specified “if you’re serious about cycling” rather than “if you’re serious about racing” where sure, you’ll find plenty of racers who only take the latest advice fed to them and don’t actually know anything about their bike other than “it’s the best” and lack actual experience. But assuming you’ve tried 25 bikes that aren’t all the same thing you’d already know where short wheelbase 26” bikes excel on the trail compared to (lol) full suspension 29”, and the downsides of course; which downsides are real obstacles and which downsides are actually overblown nonsense by parrots online, and how efficient climbing and safe downhill (within limits) can be achieved on most any bike with the right tinkering.
Yes you should have a bike with 30, 40, 50, 60 and maybe even 70mm tires, multiples of each even, and ride all of them on all of your normal trails all the time, that’s how you actually learn things
Pic related: also the “wrong bike”
