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Pfft. I was shaping skateboard and roller blade wheels on a bench grinder and then milling out a channel for the chain on a hand drill with a hack saw and chisel and then mounting my awesome home made rollers to my norco vps chainstay with huge zip-ties 10 years ago. That Dangler is bleh compared to garage engineering!

ugh. I've been out for the last 6 weeks because of a similar situation minus the buddy running me over. He came pretty close though, he said he had a feeling that he should stop and wait for me to ride out. Good thing he followed his instinct.

I hit a similar sized drop on some local trails, smacked into one tree which catapulted me up into a second tree. I was upside down when my shoulder hit the second tree, chipped my collar bone. I fell straight down from that tree which we all estimate was probably 6 foot vertical onto my head. I had put my hand down to break my fall and try and roll out but the tree prevented me from doing so. Ended up impaling my hand on a sharp rock and sprained the major ligaments/tendons in that wrist.

At that point the bike was still tangled in my legs and came down on top of me and I rolled away with it about 10 feet further down the hill. When I started to get up, I had a very bad bleed from my hand because part of the muscle in my thumb decided to come out for some air. Both myself and my buddy are EMRs so I started checking myself over while he ran his assessment as well.

I thought all I had was my hand until my buddy found that I had a hole in the back of my knee. Long story short, the QR on my seat post decided to open up mid-crash and impale itself all the way to the pivot into the back of my knee. Anyone who's riding a V10.3 and has the Santacruz seat collar, you know how big that stupid thing is. Two sets of 6 internal stitches to re-attach part of my hamstring plus 10 more outside to close it all up. 6 weeks later, I'm good to go minus the tendons in my wrist. As for the bike, bent top crown on my boxxer plus some stanction scratches.

I severely dislike trees now.

I've ridden all 3 combos.

I was running dual 24s with 3" tires on my 01 vps team dh, it felt awesome but I got rid of that pretty fast. I found I'd lose control in the air much easier but i'm pretty sure that was because of the tires. Over fast a choppy sections, it didn't feel that bad at all. I did a couple races with that setup back in the day as well. I've also done the same with 26/24.

I'm running 26/26 now and I don't think I'd ever go to 24 again. It's too much of a hassle and looks totally goofy.

For kicks, I threw on a 24 in the front while using a 26 in the rear…. it feels so stupid…. don't try it.

Since when did NSMB become a huge group of dicks?

Originally posted by springfish
haha

:eek: I think I pooed a little.

Originally posted by Rosscofat
nope but I can bike :D

So the van is pedal powered?

Originally posted by MiniZu
that was his pride.

:lol:

I wish I had video of my buddy adam… he's all about pulling up too much…. more times then one you can actually see the seat on his sasquatch insert itself into his anus.

Originally posted by LadysmithRyders
I measured it with a ruler, I think its approx 40 foot drop, 60 foot gap. I know its not this size, that is just what I got when i used a ruler on that pictuce, if the guy is about 5.5 feet tall while sitting on his bike.

lol…. My slightly educated guess is 25ish down and 35ish out, thats lip to lip. (keep in mind, the picture is not perfectly vertical)

Sweet pic btw.

Originally posted by bighitbikerNS
my krypto requires that once the key is in the circle, you gotta turn it a 1/4 turn. i tried using the pen cap, cause it fit fine, and no luck so far.

Thats the same with both of mine. Although next time I get a chance I'm gonna try it out with both my kryptos and see. I'll post video if i can get it to work.