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**jinnamys** · 09-06-2010, 03:19 AM

I too have a Rockhopper and it seems to me it can handle downhill. If you were more pro, maybe an upgrade would be worth it, but for me personally, the Rockhopper will meet my biking needs for the rest of my life... hopefully. I can't imagine ever getting another bike, unless this one just breaks in half or something.

Of course, this is coming from someone that was riding a somewhat-homemade, cast iron feeling, 2 ton weighing bike before Bush gave us "economic stimulus" money to spend. I did my part and spent it.... on a bike.

I'm also "amateur." I have lots of experience riding, but never competitively and I'm a big dude 6'4" and 250+lbs. Maybe there are aspects to riding downhill that I don't know about. With the exceptions for regular hills, creek beds and tree trunks, the trails I ride are flat.
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09-06-2010, 03:19 AM	#5
jinnamys Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 397 Senior Member	I too have a Rockhopper and it seems to me it can handle downhill. If you were more pro, maybe an upgrade would be worth it, but for me personally, the Rockhopper will meet my biking needs for the rest of my life... hopefully. I can't imagine ever getting another bike, unless this one just breaks in half or something. Of course, this is coming from someone that was riding a somewhat-homemade, cast iron feeling, 2 ton weighing bike before Bush gave us "economic stimulus" money to spend. I did my part and spent it.... on a bike. I'm also "amateur." I have lots of experience riding, but never competitively and I'm a big dude 6'4" and 250+lbs. Maybe there are aspects to riding downhill that I don't know about. With the exceptions for regular hills, creek beds and tree trunks, the trails I ride are flat. ________ Fisting Black
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