STREET RIDING ON AN E-MTB IS DIFFERENT TO HITTING LINES ON MY JUMP BIKE BACK IN THE DAY
I’m lucky enough to have some amazing riding right on my doorstep, which has kept me entertained for 25 years of two-wheeled fun. I have cross-country trails, bike parks, freeride spots, dirt jumps, trials riding and street locations just minutes from my front door. The one thing I don’t have is actual mountains, although the hills here are plenty big enough.
In those 25 years, bikes have changed drastically. Back then, I had a downhill bike, a freeride bike, two XC bikes (one hardtail, one full-sus), a short-travel slopestyle bike, a dirt jump bike, a 24in-wheeled street trials bike and a 26in comp trials bike. Yep, my garage was rammed, and pretty much every ride involved loading bikes into my van. Riding a 7in-travel rig with big gearing and sticky rubber the eight miles to the local quarry never really appealed, not to mention having
