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

This film is out today too:

https://youtu.be/GQFpnFuG99U

Wales never fails!

Watched the premier of this at the Tiny Rebel brewery.

I'm going to watch it later, for sure.

Ended up just ordering a chisel comp 2020 on b2w. £72 a month for 12 months.

Looked at the epic ht, same spec but carbon frame for £750 more, or £118 a month on b2w. Decided it was just too much for my xc capabilities right now.

sound decision

Hope it fits into the shed beside the cotic now...

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thas a nice bike

Too nice for me tbh

chisel comp 2020

Is that this colour? It's a nice looking XC bike, with nothing that appears to want upgrading ( immediately )

Just needs a negative rise stem, for that pro look

That's the one!

Maybe an enve mtn fork when the judy ages a bit!

enve mtn fork

Careful. You'd tip the head angle past 70 degrees, and possibly make @Howard faint

Well, as that judy goes through its compression the HA will go over 70deg anyway I suspect.

Hope it fits into the shed beside the cotic now...

Emperors new shed.

How do you find that Xfusion fork?

And I'm gonna ride tomorrow either at the Olympic Park or Epping Forrest if anyone fancies it? Or if anyone has any other ideas?

It seems good, much beefier than the fox 32 and reba i had on older bikes. But then it's also much newer with bolt thru, and more travel.

I will soon be looking for a 27.5 boost fork with ~130mm travel and alloy uppers ideally.

I can get a new Rockshox Sektor RL for around £220. Will I be able to get something better second hand for this amount or something similar second hand for cheaper? If so, what should I look at?

Olympic park it is.

The Fox Rhythm I rode felt better than my Revelation at the time, and they're OEM, there will be a few of them on eBay. Revelation (also cheapish) took a bit of farting about with to get it to feel good, but could do with one less volume spacer.

Anyone heading out tomorrow? I'm debating where to go.

Cancel, that, booked my induction at the new Swinley jumps thing for tomorrow morning.

This morning was interesting, induction was <5 minutes of "don't be silly" chat, followed by riding the various lines they'd set out.

It was seriously squishy, newly turned and compacted earth that still clearly had a deal of compacting to do, and heavy with rainfall. This meant that the bike rolled very slowly - I stalled on the first jump as I didn't take enough speed around the corner straight before it to even get the front wheel over.

In it's present state I'd say it's very safe - there's no run in long enough to clear the features without cranking away on the pedals, so you have to mean it. You won't roll into a jump carrying way more speed than you wanted - the run in simply isn't long enough (on the red, the black was shut but I suspect it's similar).

From the perspective of what it's designed for -skills coaching- I think it all makes sense, as you can ride the jumps/push up/ride the jumps/push up. It's not an area that I think you'd choose to ride for fun - it's so much slower than (say) Red 20 onward, and you'll get more air time out in the Forest proper.

I signed up for the silver option, I'll make as much use of that as I can until I'm soaring over the table's and clearing the gaps effortlessly, then I suspect I'll not ride it much thereafter.

I'll make as much use of that as I can until I'm soaring over the table's and clearing the gaps effortlessly

You'll be well prepared for a badger ride then.

Learning how to levitate over the bogs of eternal stench will be more useful for Badgers rides.

Being able to cycle at all automatically over qualifies anybody

Don't get ahead of yourself, no one has turned up on an Ebike yet.