Dammit’s adventures in mountain biking

need more lean?

Need more Jeffsy

Too much turny=tuck front wheel under, I thought?

Yeah, but slacker head angles mean this happens later in the turning moment compared to MTBs of yore.

Look where you want to go, not the corner

this +1

Target fixation. That’ll kill you on a motorbike :)

@umop3pisdn has your brief sorted with his Singular.

I do 90% of my riding and racing on the Niner equivalent but with 100mm forks. Can't see the point in FS for SDW and Swinley unless you're going to be doing very long rides.

Bit like that berm today eh?

nailed it

Look where you want to go, not the corner

I do this on the road bike because I know the front tyre will stick, I don't trust the front end on the MTB to do so, and therefore I want some warning that I'm about to plough straight on into a tree. That said, I'm looking at corner exit, but admittedly not nearly as far down the road as I would be on the road bike (if on a road). Road road road.

Weight on the front tyre means grip. Stay on your bike Danny.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqYgAX6D43Q

Funny, @platypus and I were discussing an LFGSS skills day today

I want Kirby to go that crazy

"look at the whip"

I now have a Napoleon Dynamite image in my head.

I'm quite excited now:

It's possible that the front end feels odd, as the suspension on a hire bike won't be set up just right for you. A small adjustment in air pressure can make the difference between the front wheel feeling planted, and becoming a wandering mess.

Among other things, such as tyre pressure, bar height, lack of coaching, and not being a Jeffsy.

High/lo speed compression damping too

I hear that the low compression damping is key.

Need to get the spring rate sorted before faffing with all that.

I believe the fork on that ^ dale has 3 compression settings.

Open, medium, and firm

"Open/Medium/Firm is Fox's integrated ride dynamics system that makes it easy to set up your fork and shock to work together for unprecedented performance in all types of terrain. It's intuitive to use and can be instantly activated while riding. Just select one of three modes — Open for descending, when you want to make the most of the travel of the fork, Medium for better pedalling performance or Firm for climbing, when you want maximum stiffness."

Suspension set up on Capra is killing me. It's possible there is such a thing as too much adjustability. Float X2 has something like 24 clicks of adjustment for high speed compression, low speed compression, high speed rebound, low speed rebound and then you have volume spacers to adjust rate of progression and pressure of course...

Wouldn't have happened if you'd bought a bike from a big manufacture.

It's enough to make me quite happy to keep riding unsuspended.

They usually run the tyres at least 20psi too high.

Even at BPW it’s rare that they’ll set the air sprigs to the customer’s weight.

I think they assume that if they customer knows it needs to done, the customer will do it, and if they don’t know it needs to done, the customer won’t notice anyway. Which is probably true.

If it's not coil-sprung, it's not proper enduro ;-)

They usually run the tyres at least 20psi too high

They should hire Ed