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Oh, here. Hold on. Hold on. Kyle. What's up, Kyle? I think Kyle is new to the stream. So everyone
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say hello. He says, how long should you expect a bike to last? I'm trying to, to decide between
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new verse used. Um, it, it depends on so many different factors, Kyle. Um, a brand, like a
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beginner bike at the normal rate of progression, I would say would last eight months to a year
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That would be my thing. You know, if you're riding it every day, you're progressing like
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the normal rate. I mean, I call how I progress the normal rate to where, you know, within that
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first year, you can bunny hop, you can 180, you can do some really basic tricks. A beginner
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full high tensile steel bike, single wall rims should last about that. Before that, small things
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might break, like your handlebars might bend and you make upgrades throughout, but I wouldn't put
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more than a year on it. A mid-level bike, again, if you're starting out as a new rider at the basic
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rate of progression, I'd say would last maybe two years, two to three. And, uh, and by that time
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you guys are usually bored with the parts, you upgrade it, things like that. And so if you're
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if you have money and you're making the upgrades, don't worry about that too much, because you can always change things out you know So anyway I say beginner bike for a brand new rider lasts about a year mid bike brand new rider lasts about two years If you a mid rider you get a mid bike I also say that only going to last a year at the normal rate of progression So that a really tough
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question. Like I said, how hard are you riding? How often are you riding? What kind of parts does
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this bike have? So, so yeah, that's tough. I see a lot of people, if you buy a used bike, Kyle
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you can get something with upgrades already on it. And that's going to be a good way to go
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Like there's nothing against getting those upgrades, uh, getting a bike with those upgrades
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Now for a fully stock bike, I'm pretty against buying it used because it's like, you never know
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what that person put the bike through. Uh, you never know what, like, did they steal it? Did
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they paint it? Did they break it? Like what's, what, what has that bike been through? Has it
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been sitting outside the whole time? Like as hard to tell. Um, so if it's somebody's custom bike
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you can get it for three, four or $500 solid. Somebody's used 2012 kink whip
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Probably not, especially guys. That's the other thing. If you guys are buying a used bike
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that's older, the geometries change from year to year. So like if you get a 2012, say kink whip
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like that thing's going to have tiny bars and just, just different geometry. And you want to
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be riding the current geometry because the reason the geometry is where it's at
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is because it's helped the sport progress so much. That's my two cents
