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Flo33

Turbo Monkey
Mar 3, 2015
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Set humus is right. The public transportation train shuttled spots are always open but snowy in winter. We had a lot of rain and warm temps which melted all the snow in the valleys. It’s spring conditions in the mountains and the train shuttled spots are going off right now. There’s also some logging going on in those spots and some trees in run outs of steep chutes.
Ronin just got pretty lucky in Bex, haha.

Sightings of logging machinery should always ring all the alarm bells though. Over here chances of steel cables running across trails are pretty high when they appear in the woods.
 

buckoW

Turbo Monkey
Mar 1, 2007
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4,700
Champery, Switzerland
Sightings of logging machinery should always ring all the alarm bells though. Over here chances of steel cables running across trails are pretty high when they appear in the woods.
Yes! But more because they like to argue/fight with bikers since we are riding their log chutes. They make for sweet leafy couloirs between loamy single track sections. Bex has a bunch of those.

That chute is steeper than it looks and you couldn’t stop even if you wanted to at the point where they saw the Timberjack. The muddy branch filled compression at the end of that one makes everyone think twice in the spring time even without a pile of logs and a working Timberjack in the runout.
 

Flo33

Turbo Monkey
Mar 3, 2015
2,057
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Styria
Yes! But more because they like to argue/fight with bikers since we are riding their log chutes. They make for sweet leafy couloirs between loamy single track sections. Bex has a bunch of those.
:D This holds true for here as well, although the guys actually working more and more tend to be from Slovakia or Romania and they don't really care for us as long as the owner of the forest isn't present.

That chute is steeper than it looks and you couldn’t stop even if you wanted to at the point where they saw the Timberjack. The muddy branch filled compression at the end of that one makes everyone think twice in the spring time even without a pile of logs and a working Timberjack in the runout.
Yeah, thought so as they were really sliding from left to right and back again. Nice run!
 

Inclag

Turbo Monkey
Sep 9, 2001
2,750
439
MA
I prefer this mullet

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jonKranked

Detective Dookie
Nov 10, 2005
85,572
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wait, is it april already? no, not an april fool's joke?

well then, welcome back from the dead, heckler/bullit design!
seriously have they been living under a rock?

"From where we stand, mountain bike geometry has virtually hit a ceiling after 30 years of development "

are they standing with their heads in the sand? most of the geometric evolution of bikes has occurred in what, the last 5 years?

"We’re bringing back mixed wheels & single pivots, which to many sounds extinct "

single pivots extinct to many? or just them.

fuck these guys all the way to the moon.
 

canadmos

Cake Tease
May 29, 2011
20,192
19,158
Canaderp

canadmos

Cake Tease
May 29, 2011
20,192
19,158
Canaderp
Also didn't Santa Cruz release some "new" single pivots a few years ago. The Butcher or something? How long did those last...
 

vivisectxi

Monkey
Jan 14, 2021
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yeast van
hahaha, that's an impressive load of marketing wank. was delighted to see "brake jack" appear again in contemporary parlay. thought it was extinct. missed the opportunity to add "elevated chainstays eliminate chainsuck" tho.
 

jackalope

Mental acuity - 1%
Jan 9, 2004
7,596
5,894
in a single wide, cooking meth...
Also didn't Santa Cruz release some "new" single pivots a few years ago. The Butcher or something? How long did those last...
I had a Butcher, and to be fair, it did have a rate modifying link, so not a direct homage to the Bullit/Heckler (which I had both of those as well). But it did offer shitty geometry, with the added benefit of emulating the shitty kinematics of the original VPP designs. So I have no idea why they're not around more anymore :thumb:
 

Bikael Molton

goofy for life
Jun 9, 2003
4,010
1,146
El Lay
I'm sorry there are just too many bike brands, garbage tires, nearly identical components with different logos., and generally a lot of new BS players in the industry. When's this bubble going to burst?
 

jonKranked

Detective Dookie
Nov 10, 2005
85,572
24,186
media blackout
Thomson is making a Ti hardtail