Sunday, November 11, 2007

Grease is NOT the word

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...

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