and the dentist bikes....
There's a place for those kind of trails. Just not every place.Got to love a good dozer ditch.
What could go wrong?
I love a corner that takes skill to get around. Picking a line and sliding around a bit sans brakes is my happy place.
Then I highly recommend Maxxis Ardents. They slide but so consistently and predictably that two wheeled drifts can easily be controlled. Nothing like hearing the sound of your roost hitting the leaves after you're through a corner.
I think that says a lot. My favourite local trails are ones that weren't "built", but were just a cleared path going through the hills. Very little actual digging or changing of the land. Those trails have been there for longer than I've been alive and over the course of riding them for 15 years, they have changed very little. There are even very few shortcuts or those pesky ridearounds.
a contradiction.
I wonder why the annual RM fest is always at the boring Kingdom dentist trails in VT when there's much better options in VT?
I'll be honest, I've never done a two wheel, no brake drift. I can't even do the cool earth based kick-outs that are all the rage these days. But fuck IMBA all the same. Trails should all be different, and they should never involve cutting down living trees, fucking up flowing waterways, or bull dozers. If you can't tackle a section, walk it, or ride elsewhere until you're good enough to ride it, that's how mountain biking gets fun. No shame in walking a rock garden, lots of shame in removing the rocks. They already have lots of easy trails, they're called roads, want some good cardio in a safe enviroment? Hit up the bike path, it's a lot of fun sometimes. Want to go mountain biking? Ride what's there, and if you build a new trail, built it to effect the earth as little as possible, even if that makes it nearly unridibeu.
Not a pro, but Holliday Inn Express lets me corner like one. Or at least that's what the retired BMX pros tell me.
my dream is to buy huuuuuuuuuuge tracks of land, and build some of the gnarliest trails known to man. anyone caught modifying them without permission will be hung.
You're a packaging engineer, yes ? Have you considered designing women's undergarments ?
this has nothing to do with anything.
Um, it hasn't been there for a number of years.
Easy, just go really fucking slow and babble incessantly about all the "traction".
I dunno man, we didn't have flow-easy™ trails in the early 90's. We learned on the same difficult singletrack that everyone else rode.
We also didn't have 25 different BB dimensions, 6 different tire sizes/widths, Linkage graphs and dentists just cleaned teeth. If you want dentite $$$, you must avail them to endless berms, occasional pebble gardens and rental UV protection blankets. As long as they keep the OG dh course intact and hopefully add another trail or 2 au natural, I'd be copacetic.
