Mountain bike help/suggestions?

[dorkdotdan]

If you really want a mountain bike you should get a Sawyer or a Gary Fisher. Even a higher end Trek will suffice.

I have a decent Motobecane that does it's job well.

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[Alyx Vance]

I just have a cheap Evolution. It gets the job done however, I can take it to town and back just fine. And thats a total of 16 mile trip.

[dorkdotdan]

I just have a cheap Evolution. It gets the job done however, I can take it to town and back just fine. And thats a total of 16 mile trip.

never heard of the brand, but if it's just for riding to town it sounds like a good application.

[Alyx Vance]

never heard of the brand, but if it's just for riding to town it sounds like a good application.

I use it mostly to ride around, I also take it off road and such. I'm learning to drift so I can make sharper turns and all that good stuff. Also learning to drift makes it so you're able to have better control of a sliding bike.
Keep in mind, a car can wreck just as easy as a car can. A bike can hydroplane and fishtail just as easy, if not easier.

I've flipped bikes, wrecked bikes, hit walls with bike, ect ect. I also need a tough bike because I keep knocking the bearings out of bikes making them unridable.

TL DR: Be careful, you can mess up easy on a bike.

[Rub]

If you buy a mountain bike, make sure it has disc brakes or you will be mocked by everyone who knows bikes.

Also, if it has Sunn shocks, it sucks.

This is bad advice, low end disc brakes are poor and I'd avoid mechanical/non-hydraulic ones completely. He's riding in parks in a city lol, not gonna get his rims and pads coated in junk.

[Alyx Vance]

I use pad brakes and they only have problems wet. I've gone through mud and everything and still came out fine.
I'm debating on if I should get brake disk, I think those would work better.

[Destroyer]

You will be riding on the sidewalk? Good, you are officially awesome.

I have some guy who lives in my city that I occasionally see. He rides a bike on the streets and he likes to ride in the middle of the loving lane and hold up all of the cars behind him. He is gonna get his stupid ass run over...

[Clone v.117]

All the things in OP are nothing to worry about, I used a stuff-tier bike that I got for free since it was completely worthless, rusted over and cracked tires, yet I rode every day on the stuff mentioned in op for several years and the bike is still fine.
You don't have to pay hundreds/thousands for that.

[dorkdotdan]

This is bad advice, low end disc brakes are poor and I'd avoid mechanical/non-hydraulic ones completely. He's riding in parks in a city lol, not gonna get his rims and pads coated in junk.

I don't see what's wrong with cable breaks. I mean, hydraulic ones are better and more responsive, but cable breaks aren't necessarily bad.

And while yes, if he were just to ride this around town he wouldn't need the top of the line super duper hydraulic full suspension mountain bike, but if he were to ride it around on some paths I wouldn't suggest rim brakes.

Though in all honesty if I were to buy a bike just for riding around town I would buy a single speed because they have less moving parts, which is a good plus in non-ideal weather.