As for no work in the garbo zone, when did fatcrobat get reworked? Last year?
Fatcrobat got reworked????
Originally posted by Purecanadianhoney
I don't see how hard it would be to scrape out the head of your cock once in a while.
As for no work in the garbo zone, when did fatcrobat get reworked? Last year?
Fatcrobat got reworked????
Originally posted by Purecanadianhoney
I don't see how hard it would be to scrape out the head of your cock once in a while.
Fatcrobat got reworked????
Work done to the top bit last year as well as a bit of work after the first ski run crossing.
Seems like the jumps are slowly being removed on Blue Velvet… Too bad. It was a nice area to train for the bigger flow lines like DM and A-Line. For us older guys there are limited areas to practice jumps unless you want to go big. How about some nicely put together blue jump runs we can practice whipping the bike and moving the bike around mid flight. The big lines I 'm just struggling to make the landing and straight jumping everything. There has got to be a growing number of older guys like myself who would enjoy medium difficulty flow trails where we can practice style and bike control.
Bottom of the park is supreme tackiness. Goat's Gully is still a bit sloppy, but for the most part, the rest of the Garbo zone has dried out well. Seen a dude eat it hard coming down Drop in Clinic. He was fine, but taco-ed his front wheel pretty badly.
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Bottom of the park is supreme tackiness. Goat's Gully is still a bit sloppy, but for the most part, the rest of the Garbo zone has dried out well. Seen a dude eat it hard coming down Drop in Clinic. He was fine, but taco-ed his front wheel pretty badly.
Did he huck it to flat?
Did he huck it to flat?
LOL, no he didn't. He was a little nose heavy [HTML_REMOVED] too far rider's right. Dude wasn't dressed like an experienced rider [HTML_REMOVED] didn't have the right bike for it either. We saw him in the parking lot later walking his bike and he looked okay. Damn Ironman. They have almost all the free parking taken up [HTML_REMOVED] I had to pay. Sheesh!
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Seems like the jumps are slowly being removed on Blue Velvet… Too bad. It was a nice area to train for the bigger flow lines like DM and A-Line. For us older guys there are limited areas to practice jumps unless you want to go big. How about some nicely put together blue jump runs we can practice whipping the bike and moving the bike around mid flight. The big lines I 'm just struggling to make the landing and straight jumping everything. There has got to be a growing number of older guys like myself who would enjoy medium difficulty flow trails where we can practice style and bike control.
I'm sorry but I find this post confusing. Whipping is a very advanced skill. If you whip and don't bring it back, you get worked, especially if you land rear wheel first. It's also something that requires sufficient air time to both get the bike sideways and bring it back. Why would you want to try and do this on teeny jumps if you self acknowledge that you're still just learning to jump?
Seems like the jumps are slowly being removed on Blue Velvet… Too bad. It was a nice area to train for the bigger flow lines like DM and A-Line. For us older guys there are limited areas to practice jumps unless you want to go big. How about some nicely put together blue jump runs we can practice whipping the bike and moving the bike around mid flight. The big lines I 'm just struggling to make the landing and straight jumping everything. There has got to be a growing number of older guys like myself who would enjoy medium difficulty flow trails where we can practice style and bike control.
There is Crank it up if you want smaller blue sized jumps also Wednesday Night Delight has good practice jumps, same with the two Aline jumps right under Fitz. It sounds like you need to work on your jumping more before working on whipping the bike and style, you just have to commit with a little more speed.
Seems like the jumps are slowly being removed on Blue Velvet… Too bad. It was a nice area to train for the bigger flow lines like DM and A-Line. For us older guys there are limited areas to practice jumps unless you want to go big. How about some nicely put together blue jump runs we can practice whipping the bike and moving the bike around mid flight. The big lines I 'm just struggling to make the landing and straight jumping everything. There has got to be a growing number of older guys like myself who would enjoy medium difficulty flow trails where we can practice style and bike control.
How old is old? For being an "older" guy myself I have been at the MTB for 20 years now, been jumping my bike since the beginning, nothing else really to do in a small Ontario town, therefore jumping comes easy for me, I find its more about the speed you carry into jumps and the trail in general that helps with air time….build up speed on the trail and use it going into jumps…you will travel farther making trannies as well…try hitting a small bump with speed and see how far you can go and work on that to clear bigger jumps…
mtbskierdad
Seems like the jumps are slowly being removed on Blue Velvet… Too bad. It was a nice area to train for the bigger flow lines like DM and A-Line. For us older guys there are limited areas to practice jumps unless you want to go big. How about some nicely put together blue jump runs we can practice whipping the bike and moving the bike around mid flight. The big lines I 'm just struggling to make the landing and straight jumping everything. There has got to be a growing number of older guys like myself who would enjoy medium difficulty flow trails where we can practice style and bike control.
I echo Chef's comments - I'm not old… more just an intermediate rider who is relatively new to the DH mountain biking and am not comfortable riding trails like DM and A-line but am bored with CIU… I used to ride a lot of Freight Train but then they reworked the section below the containers to make the jumps a lot bigger…
If you are bored with CIU, head to Aline, just go faster then you think….keep at it or train someone down to get the speed dialled, then lay off the brakes….
mtbskierdad
When you first try Aline you will likely not make the trannies. Don't let that dissuade you. Just keep lapping it up, and you will feel more comfortable letting off the brakes a little at a time. Before long you will be clearing alot of the jumps and you will be hooked. Then, do the same with DM. Repetition works.
Yeah, try to nail the first half of a line, it's a little more attainable than the second half. Do it a bunch of times in a row on a quiet day. If you clear everything super easy on ciu it's time to move on. If you only ride a line a couple times a year of course you won't be comfortable with it, takes practice!
I could see the value of another blue jump trail the same size as ciu in the lower park, at least to relieve some of the traffic!
As much as I don't care for myself, as I love Aline and the big jumps like Crabapple and Dwayne, but the most common complaint I hear from people that visit here from Calgary where I used to live (so I see quite a few of them), is that Aline keeps getting bigger and there's way too big of a 'jump' from CUI to Aline.
My opinion, because of course I have one that everyone should hear ;) is that Aline is awesome and since it's called "A" line, it makes sense that it has, and continues to, progress with the times. However, "B"line just isn't what it should be at all, and that's a line that progresses behind Aline as a good precursor. I'm sorry, but CUI really isn't it. The difference between CUI and Aline is like the difference between Pizza Cat and In Deep.
Like I said, it doesn't personally affect me, but it's a comment I hear very, very often when people visit from out of town, especially when the place they come from doesn't have much in the way of jumps. Even when those riders are capable of double black tech, they struggle with the bigger jumps like newer Aline and FT but are more advanced riders than CUI. And these are often riders that could do Aline 5 years ago before it kept getting bigger.
You can say what you like about what they should or shouldn't do to get comfy on Aline, but they are all asking for a Bline that is actually the B to the A. Maybe what Aline was 5 or 10 years ago?
As much as I don't care for myself, as I love Aline and the big jumps like Crabapple and Dwayne, but the most common complaint I hear from people that visit here from Calgary where I used to live (so I see quite a few of them), is that Aline keeps getting bigger and there's way too big of a 'jump' from CUI to Aline.
My opinion, because of course I have one that everyone should hear ;) is that Aline is awesome and since it's called "A" line, it makes sense that it has, and continues to, progress with the times. However, "B"line just isn't what it should be at all, and that's a line that progresses behind Aline as a good precursor. I'm sorry, but CUI really isn't it. The difference between CUI and Aline is like the difference between Pizza Cat and In Deep.
Like I said, it doesn't personally affect me, but it's a comment I hear very, very often when people visit from out of town, especially when the place they come from doesn't have much in the way of jumps. Even when those riders are capable of double black tech, they struggle with the bigger jumps like newer Aline and FT but are more advanced riders than CUI. And these are often riders that could do Aline 5 years ago before it kept getting bigger.
You can say what you like about what they should or shouldn't do to get comfy on Aline, but they are all asking for a Bline that is actually the B to the A. Maybe what Aline was 5 or 10 years ago?
nailed it, again
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