Mountain Bike Equipment Evaluations
"Claims preceded by 'just riding along' will be treated with contempt." ~ Maverick's DUC owners manual.
Important info coming: You can just be riding along and a product can fail. Anyone who was "just riding along" when a product failed realizes how lucky they are. If they were tearing it up when it failed, the manufacturer would not be hearing from the customer, but a lawyer. Breakage and failure may not be sychronized when it happens to you. "Just riding along" on a six inch travel fork involves speeds around 35mph over rough terrain, in our humble opinion.
Fact of life: It is YOUR responsibilty to know about the equipment you ride, even if the lies and payola reviews in the magazines fog your vision. Dreamride takes a select few people to very remote rock in places other mountain bikers simply do not visit. Far from "white civilization," hospitals, and bike shops you'd better have good equipment. We need efficient, reliable equipment, so we spend money on product testing, . . . and do not trust magazine or internet blogger reviews.
There are NO Ralph Naders in this industry. There are is no Mountain Bike Consumer Safety Agency. We are on our own. Take advantage of links below to assessments of mountain bike full suspension designs, components, builds and industry. Dreamride reviews its own shit because only Dreamride can make it better. Buy a bike and dig deeper.
SUSPENSION RANT | 29ER RANT | WEIGHT RANT
MOAB 24 HOUR RACE RANT
A PERSONAL HISTORY OF THE MOUNTAIN BIKE
TESTING AND DEVELOPMENT
CLICK HERE FOR INSIDE INFO ON PARTS SELECTION
CAUTION: BOTH HISTORICALLY ACCURATE AND PERSONALLY FACTUAL
TESTING THE PEGORETTI MARCELO
TESTING THE MOOTS MOOTO-XZ FULL SUSPENSION 29ER
DREAMRIDE 29ER TESTING AND DEVELOPMENT
DREAMRIDE MUTANT TESTING AND DEVELOPMENT
DREAMRIDE FULLY TESTING AND DEVELOPMENT
MOOTS CINCO FRAME AND PARTS TESTING
MOOTS VAMOOTS YBB "LOOP" ROAD SOFTAIL TEST
THE SCOOP - NEWS, RUMORS, ETC.
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Good news for whitey: 6" is enough!Because we ride for a living, better equipment is a necessity. We invest in product testing as others invest in advertising. We produce three state-of-the-art full suspension bikes at what we consider to be a perfect 6" of travel. The Fully is for XC/All Mountain Use. The Fully Mutant HD is Hardcore All Mountain/Light Freeride. The Fully 69 is new for 2009, with the same rear end, shock, seattube gusset, straight gauge tubing and cable routing, but with added front gusseting and design features to suit a 29 inch front wheel.
Dreamride Fully
If you are looking for the best and are prepared to pay for it, we have it. A Dreamride Fully is the ultimate trail bike for you, because it is full custom for each client from the ground up by a master at fit, form and function. It doesn't get any better, and maybe never will again.
Dreamride House Brew
The Dreamride Fully and Mutant blend experience in downhill racing, slickrock freeride, years of testing and guiding, and for 2009, the Fully adds a new wrinkle with a new model 69er with 5 inches of fork travel and 6 inches of rear end cush. With a 26 inch wheel in the rear and a 29 up front, this bike is designed to pedal efficiently at speed over rough stuff and in fast turns, then roll over big ledges and nasty trail debris at slow speeds in tight situations that would stop lesser bikes cold. Any Mutant or Fully will eat uptechnical trails like Porcupine Rim and spit them out without putting you into serious danger. The Fully and Mutant are available direct-only from Dreamride only. These are NOT mass produced bikes! Each is built custom for one person at a time.