My advice, if you haven't already scouted out the trails you want to ride and concluded otherwise for yourself, is to pick up a beater 80s or 90s MTB and try the trails before you invest in a fully rigid trail bike for Austin. Most (all?) of the fun trails are full of limestone. It's rough on a rigid (some might call it an acquired taste). If you're an experienced rider it's not as big of an issue but as a beginner MTBer I took this route and I'm glad I did before I dropped a bunch of money on a rigid MTB (which I really wanted to do).
I ended up getting a fat hardtail, but have since sold it. Mountain biking stresses me out. On Monday, May 15, 2017 at 9:41:05 PM UTC-5, Reid Echols wrote: > > I'm in the market (aren't we all?) these days, looking for a solid, > probably steel-framed, trail bike. Rigid is ok, vintage is ok; just looking > for something I can have some fun on offroad, maybe take camping, and hit > the Austin trails. > > Basically, I'm looking for a Hunq, but I'm hoping to find something a > little lower cost. I'm open to frame-sets or full builds. Just built up my > first Riv, a 64cm Waterford Sam, and it's got me covered for any road that > warrants the name. This is for primarily trails. > > So if you've got something lying around, or a lead on something like this, > I'd love to hear about it! > > Thanks, > Reid > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
