Dammit’s adventures in mountain biking

Wrong thread, moving to the tyre thread as I'm unable to understand thread comprahension

1. Think you might have misunderstood the thread title, probably want the tyre thread.

2. If they’re tubeless wheels, they will be harder. When fitting you HAVE to make sure the bead of the tyre sits in the ‘well’ in the centre of the rim to allow enough slack to get the last bit of tyre on. I’d you don’t - particularly on a new tyre and particularly on a bad rim/tyre combo - you won’t have a hope in hell.

Are you @edscoble ?

Apologies for the wrong thread, I do indeed need the tyre thread

Thank you for the advice, I will double check I'm getting it in the well

And now the front

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Hmm, took some air out and got this- I’ll recalibrate it and give it another go.

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Similar from what I’ve heard and read on singletrack. Basically when it goes wrong you wait while they send back to US, you have no bike, they don’t replace until US get it and approve replacement.

Thanks for the info.

I'll re-calibrate my ShockWiz I think, I did drop the pressure inline with the suggestions, but it didn't show a change, which is what happened when the calibration got screwed up on the rear.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TP9kokeyxGU

So many Tesla fanboys in the comments.

One didn't take kindly to me asking to be shown a Tesla doing 30 launches.

Megatower is impressive- if you get the front wheel over an obstacle you don’t feel the rear dealing with it.

Called it a day for today- huge fun

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And up again

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I need to learn how to jump, is the thing that has become rapidly apparent. I can, and am, riding the jumps- but on anything but the slowest I don’t feel in control.

Should I go back to the hotel and grab the full face, YOLO?

Have you considered cycle training?

I did try to get a half days coaching but the next available slot was mid September when I looked in July

Send it!

Broke the Megatower by being too rad. Well, the fork anyway- a Fox 36 170mm.

I got told off for jumping by the hire place- told that if I intend on jumping again I have to swap to a V10. To do jumps I do on my XC bike.

Anyway, RIP Megatower M8, I look forward to meeting your sibling Megatower M7 tomorrow. Can’t promise no jumping though.

Oh, it was the fork..

Think I'd prefer a triple crown fork for anything over 160mm, but then I am a lump

Sorry, it’s a 160

Well, even if it was 170mm, it's still designed for some rough stuff. I suspect it's regular hire abuse prior to your using it that's caused the issue

Unless this is you

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Td6g5ZlvK4s

I popped into the Santa Cruz showroom and they confirmed that the Megatowers wheels can leave the ground without invalidating the warranty

I popped into the Santa Cruz showroom and ordered one of each model

Genuinely scared doing red 25 today:

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@Dammit I quite like this thread. Had my doubts at first. Guy goes head first straight into mountain bikes with absolutely no idea. But thread title is honest.
Fair play really, if you can spend the money then why bother with something cheap.
When there was talk of getting your suspension dialed, I raised an eyebrow. Instead of googling shock set up, you bought a shockwiz. At first I had a lot of judgemental thoughts about that but then I seen the screenshots of the app and realised that I was in fact jealous and I now want a shockwiz. Or I'll rent one at least.
You drove to Morzine in a Porsche. I like that.
I'd like to drive to Morzine but cant get past the cost of petrol a 3 series.

Are you genuinely thinking about selling the scalpel frame? If so I'd be interested if its size XL.

As for mid travel trail bikes, I'd be conscious of something with 150mm and up travel. Depending on what kind of riding you mainly do then 150mm can start to feel slugish.
I own a Santa Cruz Nomad v3 and a 5010 v2. The Nomad is a great bike but when all the reviews said it still pedals well for the amount of travel? Thats utter bollox. Theres no denying its a slog up the hills. It can be used as an all round trail bike but its a bit of work.
True though that as someone else said longer travel bike like that can allow you to dabble in a bit of DH type stuff. Its worth taking into account just how much of the more extreme riding you will actually do.
I got the Nomad with that idea then realised that it was great for the DH stuff but I wanted a more 'normal' bike for the majority of the riding I do. Thats why I got 5010.
I haven't ridden the new hightower or megatower so can't comment on them but you should look at getting a demo of the new 5010.

Did you go riding in Morzine solo? I've stalked you a bit on instagram and see that you made the trip with someone. Are you out riding solo or in groups or guided rides or anything like that?

I've been dying to go to Morzine but I've no riding friends to go with. Thinking about going solo but would probably be better if I was able to take the wife and kids. Is there much to do there for my non cycling wife and 5 year old kids?!

You should rent your shockwiz out to me. I promise I'll send it back.