2024 MTB Trends That We Hated

Which 2024 trend did you hate the most?

I bought a gravel bike in 2023, fun on smooth gravel paths, awful on bumpy, loose trails. Drop bars off-road are scary, zero suspension and no grip.

The reason why bike companies are going out of business is they all forgot how to make a fun bike. Bike companies need to stop making and focusing on selling bikes for pros to weekend warriors.

The joy of a bike is its this boiled down essence of freedom and simplicity, you are the engine, no stops for fuel, just pure fun. Now there are like 20 different types of bikes and it's all complicated and gate kept. Electric shifters!? Computers!? Suspension that should be on an F1 car!?

I was at Downieville last summer with a hardtail and all the riders looked at me like I got there in a time machine. Even my shuttle driver was giving me props for keeping it old school but saying I needed a full sus up there. I was still faster than most of them, and had more fun doing it. Hell, I could have more fun cruising down the street on an old steel cruiser I got off craigslist with a joint hanging off my lip than I would worrying about going down a trail on a 10 thousand dollar bike.

I love bike brands going out of business.

Cost me $300 for new bearings in my Commencal Tempo

E bikes are just stupidly expensive and After riding and owning numerous full suspension bikes , i craved simplicity and now ride a stooge Dirtbomb . Great bike for what i need. I'm in my 50's now so not looking to be racing down hill, Fully rigid , plus tyres , no bearings to wear out .Simple

I’ve made the personal commitment to not start riding e-bikes as long as my body keeps up and allows it. It’s straight muscle power for me. Everybody has there own jam though!

Never underestimate how lazy most people are. With the widespread adoption of ebikes, riding an analog bike will soon be a hardcore activity.

2024 rampage judges were a complete joke.

Industry is hanging itself. Too expensive. The approach that people will buy more expensive gear is backfiring. With making MTBing harder to break into, you'll lose participants, and lose the interest of access and development for riding areas.

Bikes are pricey and getting way too techy, to the point of being ugly and complicated. Need more simple good looking bikes that are easy to fix and people will ride them

Ex mountain bikers hating on the new game !! Change is good step up or step down 💪💪

No gloves equals hand guards.

Gloves equals no hand guards.

Gloves and hand guards equals poser.

Let’s not forget internal headset cabling. I couldn’t care less how tidy it looks. Standard ports into the frame behind the head tube work great, are less prone to creaking, and massively easier to work on.

The prices are the main reason for bankruptcy, across the board, clothing, and gadgets.

Well ...Im still riding a Scott Voltage FR20 26er and manuals, table tops bunny hops and crashes still happens, so we don't need a AI chip on a reverb sit to enjoy the experience of a ride a bike....Brendog was robbed twice, this event must called RedBull Robbery

Cheaper ebikes and parts for motors mainly and a step further common chargers and maybe batteries? were is your green conscience ebike industry?

Most didn't like the price trend but I am loving it as the prices are crashing now. Picked up a $3000 bike for $700.

Every mountain bike owner that thinks their on a BMX bike.
Then, stand around trying to figure out why they're wrecking all the time. Maybe stop jumping a bike that's not meant to go of those kinds of jumps, you twit. Maybe
buy a BMX bike instead.

The only good ebike is an unplugged ebike. There are not in fact any good things about ebikes. Ebikes are trash as is wireless everything. Bikes don't need batteries, Bluetooth, or engines. All 3 are trash when wedged into an already perfect system. Those 3 things solve problems that don't exist. You can bet your bottom dollar the Rampage judges like ebikes. That's why Brendo was way too hard for them and got that garbage score.

Worst trend was Blakey getting into bigger and bigger crashes, that needs to end :D

Headset cables !!!!!!

Drop handlebars on a mountain bike was one of the worst trends I've ever seen in my life, let alone this year. An abomination.

Bike brands charge way to much money for a decent bike. Then the bikes that are affordable are only marginally better then Walmart bike for just 200 dollars

You, as a bike channel, don't like a growing part of the industry that helps push back the slowing down of our industry and local shops that you're currently making a video of? Yeesh y'all..

Just because Brendan can’t do anything but a backflip he’s having a whinge! The guys an absolute Muppet

E Bike = cheating

I want 26 wheels back, that`s everything i am asking for, even at the exorbitant prices...

Gravel bikes are such a joke, and such a trend. A solid carbon hard tail is far more versatile.

Yeah, maybe throw this video idea in the trash. Bad.

I bought a nukeproof megawatt because they where clearly by far the best ebike for enduro and dh riding in 2023 but absolutely devastated they went out of business, ill still keep it cos of how good it is and just put new motors and batterys in it!

I love bikes

Good for Rafa. I like their clothes but I ain’t spending over 100 on a jersey

Bearings are actually cheap, so long as you dont buy them from a bike retailer.. As always as soon as it touches a bike the prices just baloon out of greed.. Its like putting regular chain oil vs store brand chain oil at 5x the price.. Same thing just paying for the stupidity of buying it from a bike shop with a brand name on it..

Have you got plastic bits on your fire heater 🥲

The worst trend is by far the absolutely absurd prices bike brands are putting on bikes and accessories. They have come down a bit, but not nearly as much as they need to. Cycling is not accessible for a lot of people.

Hand guards. I foofooed them until I put them on my ebike for winter riding. Being lazy I did not take them off when summer came around. OMG. No more scraped knuckles from branches and trees. I ride a lot of tight woods and I love those guards now.

Headset routed cables is a long running trend that needs to die.

Gravel bikes are Woke.

I hope the oven is fake and the helmet in the background doesn't melt away

Bikes price are way to big...and many brand owners will feel that

Pole made some incredibly interesting stuff

np crc and vitus going was a blessing for bike shops and deffo gave us a head and shoulders back in the game my least favourite is ultra integrated cables through the headset just fucking sucks

You missed out mullet hardtails! There the worst

I was a hardcore mountain biker in the late 90’s/early 00’s, I live a few hours from Moab and rode the really technical trails there and elsewhere quite often. Life got busy and I stopped riding for 20 years but have gotten really into it again in the last 2-3 years, but with far more road and mild trails now since I’m commuting for fun and doing occasional trails when time permits. I bought a Chisel and it’s pretty efficient, but I didn’t learn about gravel bikes until after. I initially thought they seemed gimmicky, but now I think they’re a great, prudent solution for the every day person who just wants an efficient bike for fun or transport, and who won’t be racing road or pushing the limits on technical trails. For 2-3 decades, the mountain bike took that spot, with most casual riders who rarely left pavement, pushing around far more bike than they actually needed. So I’m glad there’s sort of a happy medium option out there now.

Industry peaked in 2012 and its just been gimmicks and public money laundering ever since😂 obvious case in point, unless your a UCI downhill racer chasing tenths of seconds wheel size is irrelevant to you everday mountanbiker on a trail, they have created a bike dick measuring situation

I built my first road bike in 2015, and I built it more as a randonneur because I wanted it sturdy. In 2023, I replaced my "road" bike with a gravel bike. Same reasoning. I want to ride road, but I want it to be sturdy and not allergic to dirt. So for me gravel is a mountain-biker-riding-road thing.

Wah, wah, wah... How many bike companies entered the market in 2024? 100?!? Bound to lose a few, it's just a case of natural selection