Do You Mountain Bike?
- Thread starter WickedWahine
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Sidewalk
My bikes have pedals now
I've never ridden VPP, so I can't speak.
A friend of mine ran head first into a rock pretty damn hard and his wheel exploded spectacularly. Don't know if anything could have held up, aluminum would have just folded.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWmC1ttwGG0
I only run carbon on my race bike, rest are aluminum.
A friend of mine ran head first into a rock pretty damn hard and his wheel exploded spectacularly. Don't know if anything could have held up, aluminum would have just folded.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWmC1ttwGG0
I only run carbon on my race bike, rest are aluminum.
Asprague
Leadfoloworgetouttatheway
If you don't mind me asking, how long have your buddies been working at SC and/or in the bike industry? Do they like what they do?
Very impressive video. Scientific? No, of course not. But certainly proves a point while simultaneously being a very effective marketing tool. Carbon rims may be an upgrade some day... still getting used to the fact that my pedal bike is worth more than any of my motorcycles :wtf No regrets about picking up this bike, though. First full-suspension rig and it rips!
I'm getting this same bike, full carbon version I the next couple days
slowpoke
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What rim was he running?
ghebinkim
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Nice, that'll be quite the build :cool
Sidewalk
My bikes have pedals now
Not sure, to be honest.
Asprague
Leadfoloworgetouttatheway
First ride on my cheater bike, second time at tam and 4 years since my first time.. these new enduro bikes are game changers.. helps that I just got this bike from Marco Osborne who finished top American in europe last week on this bike..
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Asprague
Leadfoloworgetouttatheway
Yes.. all carbon Jekyll.. i got it from Marco Osbourne..
I just want to ride..
Where you racing Saturday?
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My bikes have pedals now
PhoS
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Asprague
Leadfoloworgetouttatheway
How did you do?
Sidewalk
My bikes have pedals now
Where is that? Looks beautiful and fun! I'll try and record my run down Exploration trail Saturday, you'll like that one
Not too bad. Surprisingly small turn out. I finished third, though arguably only half the people were there to race, the other half to just ride. I lost about 30 minutes trying to navigate. I had only ridden about 2.5 miles out of the enter course, so everything else was new to me and I made wrong turns a lot or couldn't find trails. That doesn't take into account stopping to refill my water and such. Now that I know the course and what to expect I am going to push for the course record next year (5:32).
It was beautiful, super fun, and a good challenge. The race starts with a 3.5 mile, 2300' climb (average 12%) of all singletrack! In exchange, we get a 6 mile, 2000' singletrack descent half way through the race
https://www.strava.com/activities/1230508856
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PhoS
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Where is that? Looks beautiful and fun! I'll try and record my run down Exploration trail Saturday, you'll like that one
It's one of the trails at Sandy Ridge in OR.
https://www.trailforks.com/trails/follow-the-leader/
Sidewalk
My bikes have pedals now
A bit out of the way for me
I'll try and get a recording of this one tomorrow:
https://www.trailforks.com/trails/exploration/