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@bmxconan
sorry I'm not taking the piss, it's just that its fucking harcore what your letting yourself in for!
This is one of the local hills by me and the bikers going down the mellow side
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Cairn o' mount, Banchory, Aberdeenshire z1000[/ame]
I just run 48 - 15 everywhere, I can get up most things (slowly) and its good for over 40 - 45mph on the way down. I've been told that even in hillclimbs some of the guys change there wheels round just cos it's ludicrous going down a 12% incline even with 70gi. I heard a story about a guy who lost control going down the above hill, crashed into one of those snow posts and split his bike in 2. He was supposedly found concussed rambling about the heather with his bars/forks in one had and his backwheel in the other moaning he'd lost his speedo . The thing I was on about with the shoes is it fucking wrecks them