LOL, you're not the first to feel that drevil's wardrobe could use a little work.Who knew Peter Pan could ride a bike.
LOL, you're not the first to feel that drevil's wardrobe could use a little work.
It looked like they were trying to cut the log in half with their chainrings.
It looks like they need to work on speed and weight balance as they go over the log if they want to hit it head on.
all the time they spent trying to clear that thing, they could have gathered some pieces of wood/log and build a nice face ramp to launch that mofo!
bunnyhop ftw?
Anybody that follows our local "Va and surrounding areas" trail politics would be able to tell you that doing so would constitute "illegal trail building" and "construction dangerous technical trail features" Said builders would then be sentenced to eternal hellfire and damnation by the powers that be. And by powers that be, I mean pink bike pedaling, spandex wearing weirdos and their ilk.
all the time they spent trying to clear that thing, they could have gathered some pieces of wood/log and build a nice face ramp to launch that mofo!
I'm not going to touch the XC vs FR mess going on in the area, but will say, even in the XC crowd, there's an ongoing "Ride the obstacle" vs "make the obstacle ridable" debate.Anybody that follows our local "Va and surrounding areas" trail politics would be able to tell you that doing so would constitute "illegal trail building" ...
My youtube comment read something like "Mtb'ing fundamentals. Bunnyhop. Learn it, use it, love it."exactly...how can one even call themselves a mtn biker if they can't at least perform a bunny hop....D
Hey, at least it's keeping everybody entertained.I'm not going to touch the XC vs FR mess going on in the area, but will say, even in the XC crowd, there's an ongoing "Ride the obstacle" vs "make the obstacle ridable" debate.
True, but those guys did not need to totally clear it..
BTW: Dan Wask, I just read over on MORE's site, the official measurement on the log is 27". That's a pretty good bunny hop for most people.
ditto.I wanna see the guys calling to bunnyhop that log actually perform said bunnyhop over that log. I know there are probably some of you who can, but I also bet that fallen tree (that ain't no log) looks a helluva lot harder to get up and over in person than it does on a youtube video.
I don't know I've taken bikes out from the early nineties (Mongoose IBOC Pro Cromo w/specialized future shock at Ramapo and a rigid Cannondale M400 at the Hartshorne drops) on trail rides before and I still clear the same stuff. Its not as easy but its the rider, not the bike. HT are easier on obstacles like this too...ditto.
on a bike setup for XC, too. sure, w/ a DS-type bike and low saddle, it's far easier to get height on a bunnyhop, as compared a 'saddle in the air' and non-slack front end of a typical XC setup.
Yeah you would have to lower your seatpost, but thats not too much to ask.I think I could easily bunnyhop to get the front tire off the log and the rear on without hitting a chainring but to be able to get my weight back far enough with the saddle at full extention and not go OTB would be much harder.
I'm so anal about my seat height that once I find the sweet spot it will take a much better reason than a log to get me to change it. I'd try it, go OTB, get back up and ride away from it.Yeah you would have to lower your seatpost, but thats not too much to ask.
I'm lazy, I like to ride with inbetween height so I never have to stop but one of my knees doesn't always like that. I'm going to try one of them modern Hite Rite things very soon though.I'm so anal about my seat height that once I find the sweet spot it will take a much better reason than a log to get me to change it. I'd try it, go OTB, get back up and ride away from it.
Thats what happens when you are getting use to new bikeI recall this chap having some trouble getting up onto this.
The only bike to make it over the log was a 29er !
Sounds fair, most trail riders do not have enough confidence in their timing and height to straight up b-hop or j-hop right over it at speed like it was a small log, especially if it was a brand new obstacle on their local trail, but I think its not asking to much for a competent trail rider to weight and unweighted at the right time to clear it so you aren't chainsawing the log.I probably couldnt bunny hop it straight up, but I could most likely hop onto it with my back wheel and hop off the other side. 27" is a pretty significant bunny hop.
I just went outside to watch myself bunnyhop. With my seat fully extended, I can only manage about 14" or so. If I lowered it as if play riding, 2 feet would be reachable. Rolling over it with high seat would be sketch also but Im pretty sure I could do it after a try or so.Sounds fair, most trail riders do not have enough confidence in their timing and height to straight up b-hop or j-hop right over it at speed like it was a small log, especially if it was a brand new obstacle on their local trail, but I think its not asking to much for a competent trail rider to weight and unweighted at the right time to clear it so you aren't chainsawing the log.