One thing to note is if you buy a new N9 that the reach is 450 on M and 475 on L now. I suspect that once I have size M Nimble 9 that my hands will be fine riding most anything. The more active you get with pumping/jumping obstacles the less they will hurt. With that said your hands will hurt more on hardtail especially until you get more active. I have been riding either 2011 Honzo (420 mm reach yuck) or a 2015 Trance (440 mm reach ) and 475mm was too much. I can for sure say that the position of my hands was too high and to long the bike was ride able and eerily calm but it was harder to turn and made my hands hurt. So I just tried a little costly experiment and at the last minute switch my order M N9 to a L N9.
While I love riding the hardtail, I definitely wouldn't want it to be my only bike. And obviously the quality of the fork on there will matter.
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Plus the N9 is stiff by hardtail standards. I'd say your hand issue is all of the above more weight on the hands, plus general hardtail stiffness. Next question: would it suck to have my one MTB be a hardtail in Western WA? vibrations being transmitted up the frame from the back wheel)? Or is the problem that I have a lot more weight on the bar, because the reach is much longer? Or maybe it's the bar/grip combo?
I tried flattening the brake lever angle, and after the ride I moved the levers outboard a bit.Īre my hand woes intrinsic to riding a hardtail on chunky trails (e.g. The meat of my thumbs get especially worked. I thought it was going to take a beating to my ankles/knees in the rough stuff, but I find that my grip strength is my far my limiting factor. I really like how the N9 rides, except it's really hard on my hands. The N9 has 475mm reach (before possible over-fork and ~1.5 degree angleset), and my Riot has a 438mm reach (before 20mm over-fork). I am borrowing a friend's XL 2017 Nimble 9 for a few weeks, and his girlfriend is going to try out my M Riot.
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