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

I had some coaching recently and kept getting to told to straighten my legs more so that I was riding in a more neutral position (not hanging off the back).

I think Yoann Barelli's explanation of what/ why/ how of bike stance on new geometry is very clear from about 3.45 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wu9PNsCJoS8
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edit: (my coaching was not from Yoann Barelli!)

How do you find the fit of those Trailcross shoes, compared to a regular Five 10?

Going from Impact VXi, I find them slightly narrower in the forefoot. Still fine for my fairly wide feet though.

Ah, that's a shame. Not sure I'd want to go narrower than the Freeriders I'm currently using

i am pretty sure i had a crumb of my elbow floating around inside my elbow for years following a rocky crash, recently bought new pads and bc i hope to do more riding.

Someone's been practising on their RipRow!

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Lol

That’s actually one gadget I don’t have.

That table is very mild in terms of lip, but tall enough that at the speed you hit it on the trail requires a determined squash or it’ll send you a fair distance down the trail in the air.

I am at the point of elbow and chest protection (poc elbow and knee and leat lightweight body armour)

Have taken a couple of tumbles recently where I was glad to be padded up. Given the bruise on my shoulder and scrape across my chest along with the dirt on my knee and elbow pads from a spill on a berm last week I can be clear there’d have been more damage without the PPE.

Moving hydration, tools and spares onto the bike and not having a pack to wear is helping me from overheating despite the extra layer of protection.

Next step is more coaching but the chap I had been using fell off a hill and smashed his leg and knee up and is going to be wired up for another three months and will probably be next year before he is coaching again.

more coaching but the chap I had been using fell off a hill and smashed his leg and knee up and is going to be wired up for another three months

pretty solid endorsement of his coaching, maybe he needs to spend more time calculating his RAD

I crashed twice riding this weekend, one washout on a corner because I was tired, and the other overshot a corner and smashed my shoulder into a tree.

What hurt the most and caused the most injuries, however, was falling into a bramble-filled ditch coming back from the pub

The irony wasn’t lost on me. He is Katie Curds 2nd in command and the two of them were out for a ride on his birthday. As I understand he was about to crash so jumped off his bike, not knowing just beyond the bush he jumped into was a steep drop.

Katie Curds

No whey

Katie Curds

No whey

Katy and Hans should get together and do something something funny joke something something.

The Wild Enduros I ordered in 2021 have finally arrived, thanks supply chains 👍

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Speaking of tyres, and thinking ahead in case it takes a year to get any again, has anyone ridden the new Continental ones? Or even managed to decipher their model naming?

Does anyone have experience with these Middleburns? I quite like the looks of them

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Les 2 Alpes trip report:

Rad rocks up top, dusty as fuck at the bottom. Loved it.

PS you had to hit any big jumps in the morning before the wind picked up...

PPS I saw 6 marmottes

It's a fun place to ride. In addition to the marmottes we also saw a lot of vultures.

That's okay, I can't do jumps anyway.

Anyone got murmur? Been offered a frame and think it might be the upgrade from my neuron i wanted.

No experience with them, but they were proper bling when I was about 13 years old (the square taper ones, obviously)
Compared to most cranks these days, they seem staggeringly good value

LOL

Sounds good! Any pictures? :)