Let's offroad / mountain bike / mtb / ride dirt

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Well, I've got about half a metre of foot space... it's better since the seven doors have been hung!

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Yeah... I'm good 😊

Holy shit. I thought I was messy!

Excellent. Ta.

It's ok, he can find the GT85

Seems way ordered. Caps in a pile, Simoniz polish accessible with tools, GT85 like @BareNecessities says. Just looks like you need a bigger house.

And finish taping those handlebars

😂

I still know where everything is, it just takes me a bit of time to dig it out!

I wonder how far back it goes in there...

Good spot! 😂

Do you need to attach a rope, so you can find your way back out?

Don't want to have to call the fire brigade...

oh

Nope. Just to pull him out in the event of an avalanche

Needs a photoshop of the Chilean Miners emerging

Oi that camo stache is rowdy.

Elon Musk has built a vehicle to navigate that cavern.

Woah, Tigers!

It's not that bad! I have a small hoarding habit, but am looking to break it!

I'll be selling a load of stuff soon....I have some magnificent, rare, bike trinkets!

It'll break my heart a bit though!

Don’t bother, just sell entry tickets to ‘experience’ it.

Pics of the trek pls

I’ve been riding beyond my means this last couple of weeks, the mtb makes me feel like a kid again and I’m trying to throw the bike and sprint and bunny hop over every tiny crack and ramp in the path. As a result my hands and wrists are really hurting from bad technique...maybe I am decades too late to that game.

Kinda fun breaking down some childhood-trauma-based fear of hopping up/down over kerbs. Not so fun mistiming a pothole and slamming the back wheel onto it.

However, because I’ve spent the last however many years on a road bike, I’m quite used to sitting for hours on end, and this seems to be counter-intuitive for the more fun side of mtb.

Thinking of dropping the saddle, forcing myself to stand for the majority of the ride, and maybe slow down and concentrate on learning to actually lift the bike under me. For example, the saddle feels so high I can’t really get behind it for what feels like where I should be to try shift my weight to wheelie/manual. Or is that more that I must commit, and really just try and pull the front up higher?

Riding ‘fast’ seems to be fun and knackering, but leaving no energy for actual skills, compared to the road kit this Marin is hella heavy.

Is there some kinda mantra to force me to chill the fuck out and slow down time and concentrate on the actual technicalities of this stuff? Wait. That just sounds like drugs.

Story with the Trek.... I did the research, and knew I wanted one, one of my border trade acquaintances bought one too. In a recent bikepacking trip, he thought it would be amusing to tell random people that we were sponsored.... I like the colour, so don't want to respray yet, so I got some sticky fablon in three different colours!

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2.2 27.5 hardtail what sort of tire pressure for general trail riding?

Get a magnet on a rope... chuck it in the river at scabby looking spots and see what you find. That's how I slow myself down!

I’d have thought coin fishing an open manhole in a busy high street would be more profitable.