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    How'd ya do @ CHDH

    1st place fast old guys 45+. 2:26 and change I had a good run, but as I set up off the little kicker on the high fence line groove into the berm at the top of the g-out, two freakin kids were playing on the grass runout line where I was headed. I grabbed a handful of rear brake to swing...
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    Lance has his new career....

    Clever!! :clapping:
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    Theft at Joaquin Miller

    Same thing happened to me August 15, 2006, parked just below the new observatory in the big flat lot next to Skyline, across from the horse arena. One hour ride, came back, door open, window smashed, briefcase gone. In it, my friggen world, man.
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    Chest/Rib injuries... ouch!

    I've done the rib thang 3 times, and each time it happens anew, I'm reminded how debilitating it is. It affects everything in your core, affects all motion of the body. The last time was at the Mammoth Nationals last September, where the 2nd day of practice I launched in Superman style...
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    CHDH RACEwas fun, BUT.....

    After 5 years of building, marshalling, and breaking down this course when TWW was the promoter, I was so happy (happy, I say!) to finally have the chance to race it. In fact, I was just happy to be at the bottom of the hill after my race run to enjoy the spectacle instead of working 'till dusk...
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    CHDH reg full, anyone sign up and won't be able to go?

    Damn.... I'm in Pleasanton, about a 30 minute drive from Carnegie. It's raining like sh*t right now. Not sure if I should load my gear and go, or what. As it stands, the course is unrideable at this moment. Shuttles will not be able to get up the hill. Walking up would be a challenge. I'm...
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    In search for SB Monkey for shuttles 2/18 -2/20/06

    Zark - LukeDuke just bailed, and he and I are the only ones who have ridden in SB in the past - me twice, and he 4 or 5 times. I'm certain I can't find my way to the trails, or to a place to park the cars at the bottom, or find the cars at the bottom. Not sure what to do now..... Damn.
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    In search for SB Monkey for shuttles 2/18 -2/20/06

    LukeDuke and I (plus 6 Bay Area monkeys) are heading to SB for the long weekend, arriving on Friday in time for a few tequila shots on State Street. We usually have Zark join us as our guide, but word is he's heading down south to hang with Orven. So.... we need a local who's interested in...
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    AS-X as a DH race bike?

    The ASX is a capable bike, frankly, a good all-day FR sort of bike. Climbs, loves drops and stunts, and corners in the woods quite precisely due to its shortness. I ride it a lot on the tight and swoopy trails in the forests of the Santa Cruz mountains, and the ASX rocks! When I look at...
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    Schwinn Straight 8

    I have a M-900 XTR derailleur (1st generation) and a SRAM gripshift 8-speed shifter on the DH-9, and a M-950 XTR derailleur and gripshift 8-speed on the DH-8. I have another M-950 derailleur I plan to put on the DH-9, but I doubt that will help much. We'll see.
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    Schwinn Straight 8

    Not sure how the Straight-8 (9?) shock connects to the main triangle at the bottom eyelet, but with the Yetis there is a concentric there that one can use to adjust (in theory) both the progressiveness of the rear travel and the BB height/head angle by rotating it to various positions. With the...
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    Schwinn Straight 8

    I've owned a number of most "flavors" of the Lawill bike made since 1999: a Yeti-made 1999 Bass Boat Blue Schwinn Homegrown 4-Banger (converted to a 5+ inch rear using the FOX Vanilla from a "modern" version of a Schwinn Straight-6); a 2000 Schwinn 4-Banger (converted to 5+ travel as with the...
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    Sea Otter Monkey Connections

    Yep - I'll be down again. Loved the course last year, so making it 2 years running. Will be staying in Buellton, right down the street from the beer. Bret won't make it though - the big loser bought a place in Pheonix and he and family have only this last weekend to get things done. They...
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    Is this a scam?

    Very impressive sleuthing skills. Very.
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    Rockville - what's up with all the new fences???

    I was out at Rockville on NYE, and was surprised to see a sh*t load of new fences being erected around the southern-most pond, around some low laying land immediately north of this pond (encapsulating a cool downed tree I used to bunny hop up onto), as well as some fences that appear to be a way...
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    Mammoth?

    And that the trurth!
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    Mammoth?

    Nope. Never even saw a map of it.
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    Mammoth?

    Went to Mammoth last week to check out the DH and Super D courses. Arrived on Wednesday in time to do an up and back ride on "Uptown/Downtown" on trail bikes. Couldn't belive how sucky I was from the altitude. Next day my buddy and I went up the gondola to the top to ride the DH course...
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    DH rig test

    Yep... not surprised the Yeti took it. See - ya shoulda borrowed my spare when I offerered it up to ya, Orven. Then you, too, could feel that happy place.