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jebfour

Turbo Monkey
Jun 19, 2003
2,141
1,528
CLT, NC
I just sold two bikes (and bought one) over the last couple weeks. Have been doing shuttle runs this week and my wife has officially declared my DH bike as hers as I rode my new to me Enduro.

I LOVE the new bike and it absolutely has its place but being given the green light by the finance department to put together a new DH bike sounds nice too…
 

stoney

Part of the unwashed, middle-American horde
Jul 26, 2006
22,002
7,886
Colorado
Downhill MTB's were ridden down mountains by wifey and I. I know I'm not a "fast" rider. But most people being on their endurobro bikes at a DH park so you catch up with them on every run is getting annoying.
I would say the Nukeproof is quite capable - 160mm F/R, geometry is slack as fuck, it's 16miles long, and the big wheels are cheating. Even with that, the last time I was out with guys on DH bikes, that I know I was faster than at the time, I was really struggling to keep up through the really nasty stuff.

Endurobros with no DH background? Good luck.
 

jonKranked

Detective Dookie
Nov 10, 2005
88,805
27,014
media blackout
Back in CO. Even with all the extra time planned for the airport, we had a whopping 15min spare before boarding. I don't think I've ever had the San Jose airport be that delayed. No issues on the plane for anybody, thankfully. But I am ready to deplane and cough my brains out.

Bring on the hail!
Tsa precheck?
 

jonKranked

Detective Dookie
Nov 10, 2005
88,805
27,014
media blackout
I would say the Nukeproof is quite capable - 160mm F/R, geometry is slack as fuck, it's 16miles long, and the big wheels are cheating. Even with that, the last time I was out with guys on DH bikes, that I know I was faster than at the time, I was really struggling to keep up through the really nasty stuff.

Endurobros with no DH background? Good luck.
Enduro gapers everywhere.
 

6thElement

Schrodinger's Immigrant
Jul 29, 2008
17,228
14,700
Enduro gapers everywhere.
Just gapers everywhere.

Today was a tie between the lady on a huffy with kickstand who couldn't ride the short trail from the lift to that actual trails. Then her competition was the 3 Mormon (?) women in long ankle length dresses and hat things heading toward the gondola with their "bikes"...
 

iRider

Turbo Monkey
Apr 5, 2008
5,703
3,168
Just gapers everywhere.

Today was a tie between the lady on a huffy with kickstand who couldn't ride the short trail from the lift to that actual trails. Then her competition was the 3 Mormon (?) women in long ankle length dresses and hat things heading toward the gondola with their "bikes"...
Wait a second there....mormon...bikes....???? :brow:
:picsstfu:
 

Jozz

Joe Dalton
Apr 18, 2002
6,158
7,858
SADL
Just gapers everywhere.

Today was a tie between the lady on a huffy with kickstand who couldn't ride the short trail from the lift to that actual trails. Then her competition was the 3 Mormon (?) women in long ankle length dresses and hat things heading toward the gondola with their "bikes"...
Are they sharing one bike?
 

jonKranked

Detective Dookie
Nov 10, 2005
88,805
27,014
media blackout
Just gapers everywhere.

Today was a tie between the lady on a huffy with kickstand who couldn't ride the short trail from the lift to that actual trails. Then her competition was the 3 Mormon (?) women in long ankle length dresses and hat things heading toward the gondola with their "bikes"...
that reminds me... i saw a guy on a brand new scott gambler tuned, spent the entire day on the easiest green trail i've ever seen.