Slopeduro Bikes are Unnecessary. Let's build one!

Today we build a slopeduro bike from my old Diamondback 5C.

A slopeduro bike is a full suspension trail bike that has been modified to resemble a slopestyle bike. A slopestyle bike has dirt jumper geometry, very tight suspension, 26" wheels, a very simple drivetrain, and a permanently low seat height. Sometimes slope bikes are single speed, and sometimes they have a downhill drivetrain or road cassette just for sprinting and adjusting speed. Both slopestyle bikes and slopeduro bikes climb laughably. You are better off climbing on a trash can lid.

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[johannesohren]

As a wise man once said : on a singelspeed you dont have to worry about beeing in the right gear because you are never in the right gear

[keeganhache]

Hey Seth here’s a tip.if you want to powder coat, you can make a booth out of a old dryer. Cut the front of it out. Add a fan and buy a powder coating gun and some different colour powder. and you can coat bike parts so they won’t chip like normal paint does.

[polynomialx]

As always, entertaining af. The color matching and everything.

[MarcusNesbitt]

Slopeduro bikes have got many extremes: Matt Jones has his at 120mm travel on 27.5", whilst Brandon Semenuk has his on a 27.5 / 26 mullet with 190mm travel. And I have seen others running 29". I think yours though Seth is in the middle and is probably about right!

[MW-udzp]

I really dig the red brake hose, makes it look very interesting.

[yk.dr]

0:52 seth: u cant raise the seat
kevin: are you sure about that

[BmwForLife]

The Shimano alfine CT-S5000 is a realy good chain tensioner and I can highly recommend it, I use it on my slopestyle bike

[ethanmayo]

One recommendation would be to put offset cups in the head tube to stepen it up and make it more responsive like I SS or DJ bike and maby brop the travle in the fork by 10mm to keep the BB hight the same or atleast close.

[oresthse]

8:14 seth got a lot of time being a dad 😂😂

[Kot]

I actually did something like this recently; took an old 26" giant reign and made it singlespeed full sus pumtrack/street bike.
This thing is sick! So much fun.
Cheers Seth 🤙🏻

[chaddeegan]

I built my 2018 giant reign 2 into a slopeduro. Single speed, 36x16 single speed. Fixed low seat post, coil rear shock. Went from 2.4 tires to 2.1. Badass jumper. If you are a jumper like me, everyone needs one of these in their stable.

[MatthewMenze]

I'd love to see you change the brake to a hybrid cable actuated hydraulic brake, and add a gyro. Or run one of those hydraulic gyros. They were cool mechanisms that never seemed to get much acknowledgement outside of midschool BMX.

[jaypotter]

You should put a 26”rear wheel on it and some less beefy tires.

[connorburns]

I love this channel when the trails are to cold or wet to ride i rewatch the main channel and express!!

[steezevacca]

nice build! i did the same with my saanta cruz bronson last month, 1x drivetrain by reverse components, removed fox transfer dropper, pumped up those fox suspensions and now it flies on the dirt jumps that local hits with the djs... most fun bike ever had

[bosengineer]

I’ve watched your chanel for years and i’ve never seen you mention an oval chain ring! You just glossed over it but that seems so cool and ingenious to me.

[chrisgoblin]

This is my plan for my Transition Scout when I upgrade later down the line. It's a 125mm rear travel frame so would do the job so well.

[MichaelRei]

Oscar is such an amazing dog! Never a dull moment with him around!

[AlexanderBallot]

Santa Cruz 5010 straight outta the box is kinda a slopeduro bike if you stiffen it up. 130 rear, 140 pike, DHRIIs f&r, etc.- beefy components on smaller bikes

[dillonlay]

I would like to see Seth make a ski bike I’ve been seeing them on the slopes lately and it’s making me really want to build one. I think Seth would have some good ideas on how to build one.