These Controversial Mountain Bike Trends Must Stop

What are the worst mountain bike trends?

Mountain bikes are awesome, but at the same time, they’re annoying. Incompatible parts, high prices, pointless gadgets, flimsy tyres… the list goes on. You could have the best mountain bike ever made, only for it to be ruined by one or more of these drawbacks.

Bike brands are responsible for some of these, but others are out of their control. Do they really want to rip us off and force us into buying something else?

In this video, we dig deeper into five mountain bike trends we believe need to stop. Now!

Do you think we’ve covered the most annoying mountain bike trends? Let us know what you want to see done differently in the comments.
Chapters
00:00 Intro
00:17 Wireless Frames Only
02:29 More Standards
05:34 Under Specced components
08:17 Price Increases and Discrepancies
09:53 Industry Troubles

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