Top 8 Mountain Bike Set Up Hacks

From dialling in your lever position to customising your tyres, Blake, Doddy, and Neil have got some top hacks to improve your bike set up.

Shifter position is often overlooked part of setting up your bike. Have a think about where your thumbs will naturally rest when you are in your riding position.

Tall riders often find they cannot get there bars wide enough. To slightly extend your bar width, move your lock on grips so they extend a bit beyond the end of your bars.

To tidy your cockpit, use a spiral cable binder to tie two loose cables together. Alternatively, you can use a cable tie and a washer.

Especially useful in wet and muddy conditions, try adding some grip tape to your controls to stop your fingers slipping off.

Don't be afraid to cut or file down certain parts of your tyres tread to get exactly the ride characteristics you want from them.

To stop your front brake hose rattling, use a cable tie and a washer to tie it to your fork. If you are running a front mudguard, this can also be a way to neatly mount it to your fork.

Front mudguards are quite easy to make yourself, alternatively you can get yourself a very smart GMBN one.

When setting the rebound on your rear shock, think about what sort of riding you tend to do. If you regularly hit big jumps, you might want to slow down the rebound to stop yourself getting bucked off on hard landings. Alternatively if you do a lot of downhill riding, you might want a faster rebound to ensure you keep traction on rough or Rooty sections of trail.

Do you have any set up hacks? Let us know what they are in the comments below 👇

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[gmbn]

What do you think of Blake's washer trick? Pretty neat huh 👌

[ross]

The cinematography and video quality has really stepped up recently boys, good job!

[piipponenmatias]

Best moment was when doddy flew to bushes

[ollydickinson]

Haha, Blake licking that washer at 3:52... Blake cracks me up in the most peculiar ways... ;)

[pius.k]

Black's bike looks so amazing.😍😍😍

[johnwilkins]

I learn a lot from you guys. Great work. thank you

[maxMax-nspg]

The downhill vs the trail bike video is awesome

[hutti]

Blake is such a funny Person. Made my day!

[vijayshrma]

Bike was pretty easy to put together and rides very well

[edwardcarron]

Could you please do a helmet check with the whole squad just for some recommendations like so they see

[tobiasspelaren]

wow blakes suspension looked really cool

[billstorer]

I’ve broken a few grips in crashes by running them off the end of my bars. Good cheap hack but no substitute for wider bars!

[lucahervada]

Windhill Bike Park? I saw you shredding the jumps!

[kiwidiablo]

Instead of rubber washers for the zip tie trick, just use a length of rubber hose which has an internal diameter that just allows 2 passes of the zip tie through it, then you can cut the hose to length to suit different applications, been using this hack for many years on racing motorcycles and it works a treat.

[rupedog]

Love to see ur vids rocking Windhill bp with Chris S.
Lots of other good trails around Longleat u should check out too....

[owenpreece]

Great video love the quality of the video

[nickwatkins]

So sorry one last thing don't let DAD catch you hacking your tyres BECAUSE he ain't buying a new set. You Yangs Australia 👀

[TroggyPK]

in response to Neils first tip, should you not shift when the drive train is under load like when your out the saddle and putting the power down? o.0?

[andycocktails]

Destroyed my Ergon grip doing Doddy's bar extension trick in an enduro last weekend. The plastic sleeve isn't up for a low-speed lowside crash apparently. Love the channel.

[victorbonnast]

Wow!!! Blake's bike is really nice