[cheetaprowlerDH]

i rode TW on wednesday and did alot of jumping etc. and kept overshooting EVERYTHING!!!
after overshooting a few things on Split Rock (including the right side line over/ off the rock), and shuttling back to the top, i launched into the top rockgarden and landed my back wheel right on the tip of a good sized, pointed rock and heard a crack... i kept riding and the rest of the way down the trail and i heard some dragging/ crackling noise coming from my rear wheel.
it was dark, so i couldnt see if the tire was flat or what, but what i ended up finding out when i got home was that i had snapped my rear axle and cracked the outer part of the hub itself...

HOW THE HELL?!?!?

anyways, has anyone ever had this happen???, it was pretty gnarl when i saw the damage.

now i get to go spend $125 on my bike oh wait...

 

[PatBranch]

That sucks. You must be going too fast. Try a ridgid or a road bike like ozzer.

edt:

 

[cheetaprowlerDH]

the hub was getting old... but i never thought this would happen, it was an XTR. well, now that i think of it... it was an XTR.

overshooting was definitley because of speed, but i love my bike- Monster T and a Romic... the suspension can handle most overshoots, but as i found out- the components might not...
no rigid/road bike for me my friend:biggrin:

 

[PatBranch]

I just got a romic. It's so nice.

 

[amateur]

the hub was getting old... but i never thought this would happen, it was an XTR. well, now that i think of it... it was an XTR.

overshooting was definitley because of speed, but i love my bike- Monster T and a Romic... the suspension can handle most overshoots, but as i found out- the components might not...
no rigid/road bike for me my friend:biggrin:

Ha. That's a Shimano hub for you...

 

[bdamschen]

what kind of damage to the rim? Anything?

 

[Ozzer]

flat landings are cool. uphill landings are better.

 

[dft]

the hub was getting old... but i never thought this would happen, it was an XTR. well, now that i think of it... it was an XTR.

overshooting was definitley because of speed, but i love my bike- Monster T and a Romic... the suspension can handle most overshoots, but as i found out- the components might not...
no rigid/road bike for me my friend:biggrin:

monsterT, dam must be a heavy bike, you don't see too many of those around anymore.

 

[Fonzie18]

flat landings are cool. uphill landings are better.

FRONJ?!

 

[cheetaprowlerDH]

Ha. That's a Shimano hub for you...

haha, thats shimano ANYTHING for you

buy shimano, ride, come home...

 

[cheetaprowlerDH]

what kind of damage to the rim? Anything?

not really, i have a cracked pin that did not get worse...
i'm surprised at both...

i'm getting a White Industries hub now to match my cranks:biggrin:

 

[cheetaprowlerDH]

I just got a romic. It's so nice.

Romic = for sure, theyre so smooth!!! and you can hear them work too:biggrin:

 

[cheetaprowlerDH]

monsterT, dam must be a heavy bike, you don't see too many of those around anymore.

53 pounds with high gearing... its a friggin beast and with like 19 or 20 inches of BB height, it goes over anything...
its a b!tch to ride up anything whatsoever due to the weight and pedal bob up front... the romic is very sensitive to pedal bob and it feels like it depletes it in the rear.

its definitley a rig and i love it

 

[cheetaprowlerDH]

flat landings are cool. uphill landings are better.

mmmmmm, the whole-bike case... those are SUPER FUN!!!

 

[PatBranch]

That's so high. You could ride up a car easily... (well, you could get power to the rear wheel quick.)

My bullit's BB is 14".

 

[cheetaprowlerDH]

yeah, its high but really, i like it better that way... for some reason, i like the way it handles versus a low BB height bike like my friends Demo 9 or my other friends Big Hit...
getting on it is like getting onto a 450... its just as tall

personal preference

 

[PatBranch]

It sounds like a beast.

 

[cheetaprowlerDH]

definitley is

 

[wikitypooshlag]

once you get more into cornering you will start to understand the limitations of a 19" BB

 

[cheetaprowlerDH]

once you get more into cornering you will start to understand the limitations of a 19" BB

ohohoh, i know PLENTY about my bikes limitations,
you guys are used to bikes with a very low center of gravity which to you feels very good, stable, and overall better around any corner... to me because i have adapted to a bike with an extremely high center of gravity, a bike with a low one just feels so foreign and i have a harder time trying to corner IT versus cornering my bike.
my riding style allows me to make a corner just as good as any guy on a different bike doing the same corner.

off-camber, berms, flat, and uphill corners do not affect me in any way on my bike. and i have seemed to prove that to anyone who rides with me and complains about MY bike even though theyre not the one riding it.

 

[So Cal biker]

yea

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[cheetaprowlerDH]

i think this landing and others similar to it contributed very much to the snapping of the hub:

 

[mastercycleman]

are you not running a front break

 

[cheetaprowlerDH]

i wasnt back then because i had a Magura brake and the forks mount is an 8in. postmount centered around a hayes so the magura wouldnt work without a custom 9in. rotor

i have one now though

 

[cheetaprowlerDH]

i have shinguards now too...

 

[dhmtbman1]

damn dude that must been some hell of a jump how do u like your monster t

 

[cheetaprowlerDH]

mmmm, i love it, its amazing!

i have yet to ride an Avalanche fork or a Foes fork, but over literally every fork out there (manitou, other zokies, fox, white bros., rockshox, bombshell, risse, saso & showa from what i have ridden from these companies), other than custom builts, i prefer a monster