These Bikes Changed My Life! | Why The Hardtail Is STILL The Only Bike You Need

What is your experience of hardtail riding? Did you start on one and never look back or do you always ride one? Let us know 👇

I just switched to a hardtail with a dropper post and front suspension after 4 years of full suspension e-bike. My e-bike was eating drivetrain parts like bread. 🤑

I can't describe how much I love your videos about hardtails. I bought my first Hardtail in 1997. After that, I rode a lot of Fullys. But 4 years ago I bought a Hardtail again. A Steel-Hardtail from Sour.Bikes. I love it. As you say, one bike for everything. I can watch your hardtail videos over and over again. I love them. They speak from my soul and sweeten my day. thank you soo much.

editing + his aura >>>>>>

Hardtail Forever 🤘🏻

Thank you for the video GMBN, I wanted a budget full sus but now I'm thinking I'll save money and still have a worthy and incredibly fun bike. I'm not at a high level yet but I'm still considering entry level and maybe slightly higher. Thank you again.

I still have the Gary Fisher Marlin running Shimano XTs from 1995. Daily ride is BMC Team Elite. Hard tails will continue to live.

I ride good spec. hardtail because I can’t afford good spec. full sus. Therefore I choose good spec. hardtail rather than cheap full sus. And I enjoy it . Merrida Big Trail 600 👌

No way, my hard tail is for sale

amazing video i just bought norco fluid ht and i love it

Hard tail rider mullet set up, looking to upgrade the crank set wheel set and fork.🤙🏿😎

Sure it's the only bike I need, coz its the only bike have. 😅 👊

I love my 2023 Trek Roscoe, but I get backache riding a hardtail on bumpy trails.

Main thing you need on hardtail are the padded trousers... thats before anything else mentioning in video.

this dude gangster

On a hardtail you have a lower center of gravity , even more on descent , thanks to a lower bottom bracket

Out of my garage full of full sus bikes the Scout is my go to bike for most things these days. Absolute beast of a bike for everyday and hard riding.

Reason 4 : Price

all of my bikes (mtb (2, carbon and steel), road, fixie and cargo) are hardtails!

Blake, You Kill me, love your videos always!!! I will never ride a full sus ever!!! they're for pansies !!!!😄

BS

It's just like with a car. When you're young, you only whant doors at the front. Then life gets more serious and you need additional doors at the back. Otherwise you just can't manage anymore. At some point, you get older and you want a car, that only has doors at the front. It is the same with the suspension. Blake is just too old for a cosy family sedan.

The fish eye lens literally brought me back to my teenage years making bmx videos 😂

How much is that bike to buy

I recently bought a used full suspension bike which i really enjoy too, i also have a hardtail bike and i thought about selling it but i don't think i will be doing that becouse if it comes to long trips, a hardtail gets you further because on a full suspension a part of your paddling force is sucked up by the suspension. I definitely don't find hardtails outdated and maybe I will some time buy one with slack geometry and a dropper post and i am sure it will be awesome on rough downhill trails too.

Love my HT. I grab it more often than my full sus. I just have more fun on it.

A hardtail lover since 02 from 26,27.5 to 29er. As all is said and presented by Blake.. so nuff said. When someone asked whether Im new to mtb coz riding a hardtail, all i can say is yup just a week riding😎 noobs

People need to hike up those skirts and grow a set! Hard tails rule!

Full suspension is like fat skis! They both suuuuuuck and are for wimp posers!

I only have a hardtail 🤘

Hardtails >>>>> gravel bikes. I don’t get the point of having a really uncomfortable road bike in the mountains 😮‍💨

I love my scout 🥰 i have a fully but it is always the hardtail i Pick when I ride.

This is a very “Age” specific statement.
I would have agreed 15 years ago ,but at 64 hardtails are just too “hard” I rode fully rigid and hardtail from the mid 1980’s until 2010 but now it takes too much time to recover from a long day out doing technical riding.
Full suspension and a Soft tail make it possible to ride what I used to ride without the pain and recovery time.

How many videos on why hardtail is best can be made?

Have my Dartmoor Hornet as my fun bike (mulleted with 160 fork) Does everything that the Intense dually can do with as much to more fun factor. Just needs an insert in the rear. And yes does indeed make you read your lines more carefully which translates to better full suss riding.

I Love my Hardtail. ❤❤❤

Im still ripping my old 07 Norco Rampage for a change of pace.

You can't ride hard trails on a hardtail...correction, YOU can't ride hard trails on a hardtail but I can.

This is all very good, however when I get myself in rowdy situations I'm very glad to have rear suspension. It's like life insurance, will take you out of a bad spot and save you from nasty crashes.

The second the Nukeproof Scout gets rereleased I'm hitting order 😊

Ditched my full suss, hardtail is just so much fun! Kingdom Vendetta X3, Reynolds carbon trail rims and i9 hubs. It's just brilliant

Dont get me wrong, i absolutely love my hardtail. But i feel that i get a better workout on my full suspension.
I live in cardiff so its the perfect location for all styles of mountain bikes. We have the taff trail that takes you all the way from cardiff bay, right up to the brecon beacons.
The only advantage i honesty feel i gain on my hardtail is speed.
Other than that, the full suspension takes the win for me.
It eradicates my lower disc problems in my lower back, its easier getting up steep hills ( slow but steady )
And for me i just feel more connected for all around mountain biking, from single track, tarmac footpaths, gravel, mud, off road trails… the lot !

In 35 years of riding as an adult, I've had all kinds of bikes: road, TT, full-sus, etc., and my 2022 Specialized Epic Hardtail is the best bike I've ever owned. Modern hardtails have a little bit of trail geometry, so they're waaaay more stable than the harsh and twitchy 26ers we grew up on. My Epic is light and playful on the trail, and good enough on gravel that I often choose it over my Diverge. SPD pedals for the reasons you mentioned in the vid, and 2.35's work well here in the midwestern USA. Again, best bike I've ever had - love my Epic.

Totally agree with this video. Just upgraded and bought a new mountain bike recently, and I stuck with a hardtail. I find them more fun to ride than a FS, and as someone who maintains his own bike i appreciate not having to deal with the unnecessary complexity of a FS.

Still have my 1998 S-Works M2 .. 26er HT life!

i have an aggressive hardtail as my second mountain bike. it's also my commuter. when i feel i'm getting a bit soft, i take the hardtail out to the trails.

IDK GMBN, IMHO this is nothing new. I'm not quite sure about the direction this channel is going lately, so may obvious topics and sometimes it feels like product-plugging...

Been riding HTs for 30 yrs, from steel 95 Specialized Rockhopper to alloy 05 Stumpjumper HT to 22 Chisel HT - all rather simple bikes. Especially the steel Rockhopper and now the Chisel where/are bang-on bikes, and that Stumpjumper was very good too. The ride of the Chisel is unmatched for, say, 1500 euros/dollars. I rode some Cubes and Canyons with a higher price tag and they were not on that level IMHO. Every sporty cyclist who doesn't want to spend more than 2000 on a new bike, will probably know and knew this about HTs, for the last 2 decades or so.