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Went riding with Jamie, Terry, Darren, and Josh on Friday, and Jamie, Darren, and Casey on Sunday. I'm getting more used to having the shorter stem and am getting progressively faster cornering my bike. Feeling a little more comfortable jumping it bigger too, although I was having trouble going fast enough to hit tranny on the Stimulator in Basic Training or on E.T., even when following someone in. Darren told me if I didn't clear a stick on the ground 20 feet past E.T. (official starting point of the tranny) that I'd be walking home from Black Rock. Given that choice, I finally made tranny by about a foot, but "worked my chain" for it. Pretty sure I found the problem though.
Irish Rob came by last night and was checking out the new parts, and said "dude, you have no spring tension." So, as I thought before, even though I thought the suspension was balanced again, it is under-sprung right now, which is sapping my energy and getting me squirrelly when I land. We dialed-in the shock, and we're going to spend some time on the forks tonight with a shock pump so I'm good to go for next weekend.
Hopefully next weekend is bigger air with less effort. Hell, I may actually take off the skirt again and get in one of Jamie's vids.....Or so I can dream, anyway....
Darren, Casey, and Terry were sending huge as usual, and Casey and Darren have progressed to an entirely new level. It's impressive to watch!!
Went out to Post Canyon today with Noah, Jamie, and Jake. The trails were uber greasy from the get-go. We drove all the way to the top this time, and the little DH section up top was so blown-out Jamie and I diverted to the fire road. 2 Chair from below the fire road was pretty decent, but still pretty mucky.
The run-in to the step-down felt trippy today. The dirt rolled really slow, so you'd overcompensate and go too fast. I pulled up too much on takeoff and landed nose-high and out of control but managed to keep from kissing ground after coming to rest in the bushes. A combo of not being used to the new stem yet and weird dirt basically kept my tires on the ground for the rest of the day.
This pretty much sums up Noah's day. He decided against hitting the step-down first, and tried to connect the whole line. He didn't follow anyone in to check his speed and came up short on the gap and cased his frame on the landing. Bike stopped and he rag-dolled the landing ramp.
We watched Casey boost it like normal and Jake hit XChorusX twice and then rode the fire road back to Family Man. Noah wasn't feeling too hot after his wreck, so we rolled on out from there (after dropping off another casualty of the day at their vehicle).
Last day at Post for a while I'm guessing...
Finally left the skirt in the truck and hit some big jumps at Post Canyon today. It felt good. I think I'll do it again soon. Yep. Oh yeah, that and bring my damn camera battery!!
Special thanks to Jamie and Kevin for encouraging me to send it, Tom and friends for the shuttle and second run, and Mike and Miles from Hood River for letting us ride virgin trail.
