Little fun on the big bike doing some training for next season. Took the Shivers off today and threw the 888's on for my winter riding. Kinda backwards from what others normally do. I like a lower front rake that my shivers provide for racing and my bigger higher rake for hucking off stuff all winter.
Nice pictures, thanks for posting. It looks like you have to watch your line or lose a rear derailleur. Can you PM me with the location?
yup.
And derailleur wise, no, not with a dh bike. I don't go around the rocks I go over them in most cases. Rocks are good for boosting off of, clearing bad sections of the trail. The big rock in the middle in the last pic is a good example of that. Hit that going 45 and you will land off the picture clearing a whole chunk of bad trail. Pedals do get pretty torn up though. Definitely not a clipless friendly trail as you will most likely rip the bottom part off the pedal.
From the looks of your bike you could probably clear those hikers also...They were what you were referring to when you said "bad section of trail" right?
From the looks of your bike you could probably clear those hikers also...They were what you were referring to when you said "bad section of trail" right?
haha!
There are some nasty parts on the trail. Stuff you really have to drift back and forth around. It can be fun to do a sprint run down, but like said, the amount of drifting you have to do is pretty insane. I think I've only made it down a few times drifting without smashing into a few big rocks. Generally its the pedals that get the worse side of the stick but I have also torn spokes out as well. Reason why we just generally go flying over the parts even if its a 10-15 foot long section with only a tiny little rock to boost off of.
Finally a nice weekend and hit the trails. Will get pictures posted ASAP. We have a new park that a lot of people have worked very hard one. Over 200-300 acres of riding space.
Got on the dh and did a ridge run a handful of times. Pretty wicked fun if you ask me. One of the more difficult runs I have done. Thank god for the amount of travel my bike has. I used every single mm of it.
Looking up from part way down.
Pic quality sucks. At least we had the cell phone to take a pic with
part way down. I pretty much ran it straight through over the shitty stuff. Pretty fun at high speed. I'll have to bring the helmet cam next time.
doing some training for next season. Took the Shivers off today and threw the 888's on for my winter riding. Kinda backwards from what others normally do. I like a lower front rake that my shivers provide for racing and my bigger higher rake for hucking off stuff all winter.
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