The last person to post a picture from their last bike ride wins access to the white courtesy phone.
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I would totally agree, because 1, high speed circuits are usually pretty fucked up and over-damped IME (but not always) and we end up making up for it with more low speed flow and 2, the entire reason it's hard to tune mtb suspension is because the body is not fixed and can absorb a lot, in other words your leg, arm and torso movement has a huge ability to absorb and the "correct" amount of damping has to be less than the "ideal" to account for this, or it ends up pretty jacked up. But going back to 1, to some extent we are "forced" to put up with excessive chassis movement due to shit products.
Underdamped setups are harder to control if things go really choppy for me. I prefer a planted/slightly overdamped feel of the bike, which hinders my jumping but helps everywhere else.
Omg a ride on dry dirt. Felt like an absolute donkey riding a bike with suspension and skinny tires, after spending all winter on the rigid fat bike and road bike a handful of times.
Sad news, it's only the beginning of April and there is already lots of trail widening happening from people going around roots and stuff. Dammit covid.
Sad news, it's only the beginning of April and there is already lots of trail widening happening from people going around roots and stuff. Dammit covid.
All dry up that way?
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someone should get a leaf blower shoved up his ass.Omg a ride on dry dirt. Felt like an absolute donkey riding a bike with suspension and skinny tires, after spending all winter on the rigid fat bike and road bike a handful of times.
Sad news, it's only the beginning of April and there is already lots of trail widening happening from people going around roots and stuff. Dammit covid.
Agreed! People love blowing leaves around, around here.
Though I don't think this place blows them. It's just had that much traffic. Today there was people parked where I've not ever seen anyone park before, it's crazy.
2nd and 3rd photos look great, but there seems to be something blocking the view in that first photo. Something just above the headtube supporting the bars on that bike??
Yeah, a smear on the otherwise-nice setting.
that looks awesome. I love me a good bmx track and my Evil
I watched a 13 year old glide through, pulling manuals and pumping the whoops like it was nothing.
Not sure I’ll ever figure out how to do that.
No need for a new stem here, but that is a heavyweight contender for the stem I don't need.
edit: i parsed that terribly. your stem is fucking hot!
Pine Mountain/Hemlock Hills between Danbury and Ridgefield CT.
I've got a new riding partner
convinced him to do an after school - after dinner ride yesterday. Hit the technical trails for the first time (east coast rox, lots of steep short ups and downs and some fun rowdy features). Despite not being able to make it up all the features, he loved it. If he can ride this trail, he can ride pretty much everything around here. I'm stoked! (no riding shots since we were racing against the clock to make it out before dark!)
I might go out an buy him a pair of Ride Concept shoes today (before all non-essential retail closes due to the third wave tsunami) and install some proper flat pedals. If he's gonna ride the tech-gnar, we're gonna want his feet to stay on the pedals. Can anyone comment on how they fit (a bit large, a bit narrow etc...)?
convinced him to do an after school - after dinner ride yesterday. Hit the technical trails for the first time (east coast rox, lots of steep short ups and downs and some fun rowdy features). Despite not being able to make it up all the features, he loved it. If he can ride this trail, he can ride pretty much everything around here. I'm stoked! (no riding shots since we were racing against the clock to make it out before dark!)
I might go out an buy him a pair of Ride Concept shoes today (before all non-essential retail closes due to the third wave tsunami) and install some proper flat pedals. If he's gonna ride the tech-gnar, we're gonna want his feet to stay on the pedals. Can anyone comment on how they fit (a bit large, a bit narrow etc...)?