Jeff Jones: A Man and His Bikes

Filmed over the course of four rides near the Jones Bikes headquarters in Southern Oregon, this latest Jones Bikes video combines high-quality riding footage with Jeff Jones' explanation of what makes these bikes ride so well. Learn more about the riding and the rider that created these bikes and bars, as well the thinking behind them.

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Music: "Miles Away" by Kasger & Limitless and "Not Too Cray" by Huma-Huma

29 Plus bike and 29er bicycle ride.

[s.jaerc]

Mr. Jones! I finally got a 2012 steel diamond frame. Beat up... But mine. I love it!

[goodjousting]

Yey! I am not weird as I love wide rims and tires and a rigid fork! A lot of people were throwing hate on my setup, watching this puts a smile of my face

You’re awesome Mr Jones! My bikes uses Jones loop bar and they are awesome

[LeonardCrassman]

I agree about the one bike thing man. I've been riding an ECR (with Jones bars) for a couple of years now and I just ride that everywhere, my other bikes are dustcatchers now but I'm too lazy to sell them.

[hairypaulmmwab]

Having spent many years building frames and custom parts for bikes, trikes, trailers, etc and chopping, stretching and modifying existing bikes to create unique custom rides I agree with the 'long wheelbase' being the best for a 'general purpose' bike that works well across a variety of conditions. I think You have hit a 'sweet spot' for a 'do it all' bike with the long wheelbase and multi-position bars on the Jones Plus :-) I run many styles of bikes with 'non standard' geometry & wheelbases ranging from 3ft 6in (low speed technical trials/tricks) to 10ft 2in (full suspension downhill gravity monster built for one specific rapid downhill descent) I use tyres ranging from 16in to 29in diameters and 1/4in to 6.5in widths. I have also used many types of forks and would be interested to know if you have tried your fork design with wider tyres? 4in to 4.6in (running low pressures) appears to be the optimum for the terrain here in S.W.Scotland most of which is wet all year round. No roads & very little hardpack or anything that even looks like a trail, with some pretty gnarly rough rocky areas & gravel scree sections that fat tyres work wonders on. Pretty sure a version of your truss fork design for 'fat bikes' would do very well :-)

[joseluislitre]

What an amazing idea, design and product. You ticked all the boxes James. You should get a Sales Rep in Australia or New Zealand so I can try before buying. Awesome footage too!

[CreamyBone]

Great job! - Take any additional footage and make an extended length riding video!

[LARGEONE]

Love this video! Great bike for Colorado trails!

[RomanAdar]

Great riding and great video and thanks for sharing.

[averagehank]

I agree with your philosophy on bike design

[yojvilleza]

Jones bicycle is one of my favorite, how i wish that i have one, but its to expensive here in the Philippines.

[michaelhayward]

Love this guy and his innovation.
Anyone ever told him he looks like Eric Idle from Monty P?

[ericpmoss]

This is a great video in every way -- good music, good production values, good explanations -- thanks for it! BTW, who constructs the Ti spaceframes and forks? The welds are really smooth.

[DJhunta]

Glad to see this vid. I have been on the fence, if they handled tech well. The riders I have seen with these are not tech riders so I wasn’t sure. I will be ordering the carbon model now thank you!

[kevindean]

Hi, I noticed you do a frame with a concentric bracket, is it possible to fit a Rohloff to this frame ? & Do you supply to the UK ?

[sterlingmorris]

super nice video...where to eyeball in texas?

[overland_adventure_nz]

I like my Jones Plus apart from the bars!
Like the design of the Loop H - Bars but for me the angle of 45 is too much. would love to have a Jones Loop 30 to 35 degree. ...
tyre pressure of 10 psi O yes have go try that.

[supakidgalaxy]

I’m too poor to afford a Jones SWB but, I dream of owning one.

[jackbeames]

Credit to you bro I would not want to ride jumps or roots with those bars. I live my 800mm bars for that

[SheriffHoyd]

is there a version of this frame with horizontal dropouts.... for rohloff?

[dandeetorregosa]

Carry he's name, Jones bar, Jones bike.