What Should Have Been & The Glory Days Of Downhill Thread.
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So who is the New MRP? Or are they running many Brands? I need to check that out. Like how RockShock lost to Fox on Fork’s. Fox is all I see.i checked the MRP athlete page.... its woefully out of date. they still have the Athertons listed on Trek Factory Racing
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For sure, MRP makes the best guide for all the single ring NW bikes that "don't need chain guides" these days.
I threw 3-4 of these out recently when moving.....drug them around for way too many years.
Remember when those orange rollers would litter Norba National courses? Even with Loctite they'd come off but I'd go hike up the course and find a couple replacements.
Man it's been a few since seeing one of the old school mrp....E-type at that lol...did you keep the old square BB too...lol
My bag of stuff and box got stolen a few years ago with everything I always carry over and stuff from 18 years ago.....however I was digging in my tools and found a square RF bb not long ago...lol threw it out...
My bag of stuff and box got stolen a few years ago with everything I always carry over and stuff from 18 years ago.....however I was digging in my tools and found a square RF bb not long ago...lol threw it out...
See it's a bash guard.....that completely folds sideways when it gets bashed. So that you either can't pedal, or it misaligns with the rollers and throws your chain off. It's brilliant!
Not nearly as bad as the mr dirt that i had on my specialized sworks fsr and bighit that constantly jammed my chain on race runs.. thing was a disaster.
I remember Mt Snow/ Snowshoe 2002/3? sitting in a hotel parking lot with Weagle and crew trying to install the first evil chainguide onto my yeti DH9.... absolute shit show
One of the best things I miss about the DH scene was waiting in lift lines and hearing the BS that would spout from racers mouths. This isn't an MX track where everyone can see you hit that 120' triple. 90% of it is in the trees hidden. In late 2002 at a Big Bear race, a 14-year-old kid was in the line. We were talking about Sanjay who I had met at the Parkfield Classic race in 2001. Rumour had it he was doubling up 2 tabletops on the Westridge line that would make it into a 80+ foot jump. ON AN EVIL IMPERIAL......
Fabien Barel I think followed him down and tried it once and only once on his DH IDrive bike. This little kid chimes in with his Orange 223 literally an exact duplicate of the Global Teams bikes. "Yeah, I hit that". Followed the little kid down and jumped past him on the DHR as he barely cleared the 25-foot table. Granted I landed on flat bounced a bit and hit the second table a bit squirrely but hey the jumps were too small and close together....
Fabien Barel I think followed him down and tried it once and only once on his DH IDrive bike. This little kid chimes in with his Orange 223 literally an exact duplicate of the Global Teams bikes. "Yeah, I hit that". Followed the little kid down and jumped past him on the DHR as he barely cleared the 25-foot table. Granted I landed on flat bounced a bit and hit the second table a bit squirrely but hey the jumps were too small and close together....
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More jumping and less pedaling? Then at least it’s more fun to ride with those super talented little fuckers?
unless you hate jumping like me and then they just make you feel bad about yourself...but at 47 i'm still trying to learn, fo shizzle.
They don't have fear yet....we have a few around here that fly off shit cause they saw it in a video lol...that was my reason plus we just hucked everything. But they start off where we left off....
I hate getting old. But I can still throw a stick pretty good so little bastards better watch that front tire....
I hate getting old. But I can still throw a stick pretty good so little bastards better watch that front tire....
Still trying to learn is key for me too!
But then again, I’m only 43!
Technology has come a long way!
I hardly use flashes when taking action pics these days thanks to higher usable ISO numbers.
watching that after having watched thisTechnology has come a long way!
I hardly use flashes when taking action pics these days thanks to higher usable ISO numbers.
technology has indeed come a long way.
As I commented on NSMB's piece, for $450 you can have a whole crankset, with better integration:
They tossed hay bales on it for the better part of a dozen years after the national races quit happening and now that section of woods has almost as much dirt again as 1998.
Started looking at that O-chain setup .saw it for the first time recently...pretty cool...
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U mean to tell me that a heavily rutted rock garden was able to repair itself with by tossing hay bales over it? No way would the ground be able to repair itself. Has anybody possibly pointed this out to the person at IMBA making trails lame all in the name of erosion? Blasphemy I say.
Last time i was there in 2019 i followed a kid on a 24” Kona straight down the old race line.
It was a hell of a lot of hay, for a really, really,
really long time.
I use flashes for a living. You wanna see some flash magic check this out. It May not be WORK SAFE depending probably a $200K shoot. I like the subtle strobe fill but will shoot action with them occasionally.Technology has come a long way!
I hardly use flashes when taking action pics these days thanks to higher usable ISO numbers.
Theoretically the bikepark is open again(for it’s 33rd season!), with the same basic park trails they’ve had for a decade.
Since it’s half an hour from Thunder, Jiminy, Stratton, Okemo, you’d think they would be struggling- but that long beginner sidewalk trail has still been making rental customers happy.
Locals have been hard at work clearing glades all over the place for “sidecountry” ski access, so it might be fun to go eebing up there.
Nice! With my old camera there was no chance in hell I could get an action shot in the forest w/o flash.
Now this has changed so much.
I got a real bad spiral fracture on my left metacarpal near the bottom in 2002.
Dear god I can't imagine a spiral in a metacarpal. That would have fucking sucked.
It hurt like a mother fucker for about a week and took forever to heal. I was in a cast for twice as long as they originally thought. I did luck out by not needing surgery.Dear god I can't imagine a spiral in a metacarpal. That would have fucking sucked.
How did they figure that? Groundhog saw it's shadow?