DH Biking

[Delphinus]

The structures at Moose Mountain are all very ... um .. well, like I said, death is a plausible outcome if you make any errors on them. You definitely need to hone your skills in other places, all of these are fine if you can do them, but there's just no tolerance for errors for a blue rider like myself. I can do tables and the odd wooden structure, smallish drops if the landing gives me enough margin. My problem is if I try something, I need a few seconds of ... I'm not sure what to call it - "gloating" is not quite right, but a sort of "Oh wow! Holy moly! I lived! That was fun!" moment, but you get maybe 200ms at the speed you need to do these at before you're onto the next terrain challenge thrown at you.

I'm feeling it pretty bad today.

I'd love to join you at KH some day but I can't compete with you kidless folks and your oodles and oodles of free time on your hands. It's half day adventures for me these days. KH is just too danged far away.

[Delphinus]

Originally Posted by muck

Sounds like you had a good weekend Tony. Im one of those crazies...
I manged to get out last night on my skinny tires for a good 40+km ride of Frogger around Edmonton after the rain.

I was thinking of you as I rode the highway. Seriously dude, that is just nuts hearing morons approach at >100kph with their tires touching the rumble strips and I'm all "at what point do I just dive into the ditch so I can stay alive?" for each and every one of them. And it's at best 400-500m from trail's end back to where I had parked for that shuttle run. I can't imagine >40km of sharing the road like that. I'm sticking with mountain biking!!!

[Delphinus]

This is a great site for anyone contemplating riding at Moose Mountain:

http://www.mmbts.com/members/

Couple weeks ago a bunch of us did Moosepackers to Ridgeline (which is a new trail this year that bypasses most of boggy Tom Snow) on our XC bikes. Great fun. Ridgeline is a great new trail. Not for a DH bike though as there's a fair bit of climbing to get to the downhill sections.

[trinac]

Originally Posted by Delphinus

I'd love to join you at KH some day but I can't compete with you kidless folks and your oodles and oodles of free time on your hands. It's half day adventures for me these days. KH is just too danged far away.

One day you will be bringing your kids and they'll be pretty happy to have such a badass dad to take them biking, then you'll be out at Kicking Horse!

[saltcreep]

Well, the new forks are on the bike and went for it's first ride this morning. The new Fox 36 Talas is as smooth as butter. The one thing is that it didn't make me a better rider...



This is on Mt. Fromme in NV just at the trail head. Sorry for the quality of the pictures but they were taken with my phone.



On the ride up.



Some of the fun.



And more fun. This is a rock roller coaster. Again, sorry for the poor pics.

[trinac]

Cool trails!!!

I wish my bike had a sweet fork!!!! haha naw can't afford one... been doing adjustments on it lately to make it smoother.

[trinac]

oh! and sportin a Troy Lee Helmet!! nice

[saltcreep]

I limped along for two years on the old one. My wife was the one to tell me to quit whining about it and buck up and buy a new one.

[saltcreep]

Originally Posted by trinac

oh! and sportin a Troy Lee Helmet!! nice

I feel that even if you aren't that good, you need to look good doing it.

[Delphinus]

I tell folks I make up for my lack of skill with cartoony sound effects. It all evens out.

That's one sweet rock garden, looks like a lot of fun.

Anyone headed over to Whistler for Crankworx this weekend? Alas, I went last year and I can only sort of afford one big bike trip about every 2 years or so, but a bunch of guys I know are probably already most of the way there by now.