DH Biking

[trinac]

Sounds like you had quite the day!! Thats awesome, and funny about the bear. I once thought a bear was coming for me, but it was the shadow of the gondola... haha I apparently have a healthy imagination, or need some medication.

I've just been to Kicking Horse the last two weekends. Nearly the whole mountain is open now. Going again this upcoming weekend, the weather is looking more favourable for the weekend... so THEY say. Weather forecasters... haha. Hardly anyone has been out there this year. I'd say the next couple weekends would be great to take advantage of the whole mountain. Let me know if anyone is also going to head out there!

My favourite runs at KH right now are Superberm, Buffalo Jump, Hop A Long, and Showdown. Magic Carpet Ride is open now too... but it needs a bit of work. Showdown is probably the toughest of all of those for me, tight and steep berms, but I did the woodwork at the beginning this weekend! A lot of people skip it because on approach it appears the edge is a cliff. I had a couple spills this weekend as well, it was a bit muddy and I was going a bit faster than I should have on a rocky technical bit. And finally figuring out how to do drops properly, rather than just pedaling and hoping for the best haha

[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.

[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]

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.

[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.