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Inside joke between Owen, Myself and ol' extra-carbon-wrap-Matt who'll hopefully be featured next on "Pistons and Pivots".

Owen: "Look at my bike closely" ...probably

"Why use many words when few words do trick" - you probably

Looks like he's closed his go fund me page. I could no longer see the comments or description.

https://www.gofundme.com/bike-stolen-after-almost-dying

RIP jump!

damn thats a sick line.

Whats wrong with the dimension lumber? Notches in the trees are even less cool.

This is some unreal building, nice work!

Assegai front and rear since beginning of August and it's the best tire I've run. They're pretty slow rolling and heavy though. Loved magic Mary's but the wear wasn't great. Had problems putting holes through specialized and ethirteen tires.

Thanks dude, Hot tuna has been 3 years in the making. Hopefully it will be "officially" open soon I if I can ever get the recreation officer out to ride it.

I'm on a 2017 Prime and my girlfriend was on a 2017 Rune (selling it). I'm a pretty big fan of the low maintenance bikes so the weight doesn't bother me. Both our builds are 33lbs with heavy tires, Pikes, etc. We both raced a bunch on them.

I just went through all this very recently. I wanted a very specific build/truck. I have used a broker in the past but wound up paying more and if you're arguing over $500 I'm guessing you're not going to want to go that route. Make sure you are final price/after taxes and fees and get them to send you the spec sheet with the build and price as it might be missing things when you show up. I used Craigslist mostly as it's got a bunch of really good filters to find specifically what you're looking for. In the end I emailed a ton of dealers and they found me a super good deal on what I'm guessing was a buy back for an enterprise rental. Good luck on the hunt.

Yeah I've thought about it a bunch. Don't think a neck brace would have helped as t6 is mid spine (scorpion crash) though I will probably invest in a detachable full face for pedaling. At least I now know the first bridge I built can hold a wheelbarrow + 7 people.

Posted by: Ddean

As someone who is also recovering from a crash and off the bike, I can understand why you made this.

You're bored as hell! You miss riding! You're looking for stuff, anything, to do! May as well make a video!

We should have a thread stickied where people unload on their crash and recovery.

Me: ladder drop crash resulted in separated shoulder, separated ribs, badly torn hamsting, left leg nerve damage (temporary), sprained wrists/hands, destroyed helmet but no head or neck injury. Worst part is that for the first two weeks after, my ribs were disclocating dozens of times a day and would not go back into place by themselves. I had to manipulate them back by extending my back and pushing them back in with my hands. Awesome. One time I had the hiccups and they dislocated repeatedly just from the hiccups for a couple minutes. Id put them back in between each 'cup because at that time it was super painful when they were out - it doesn't hurt anymore but its gross! Itll be 4weeks this weekend that I'm off the bike.

Brutal. I crashed hard at similar time (6 weeks ago). Overshot a jump on a trail I'm building (it had packed in since I'd hit it before) and landed next to my gf and friend. From how they saw me land they decided to call SAR. I'm in a brace for 10 weeks total with a burst fracture to t6. Guess I've just got to count myself super lucky though as I didn't need surgery and don't have any spinal cord damage.

Those are awesome! PM sent.

Get fit. The best trails are usually the ones you have to pedal the furthest to around these parts.

Thanks for the info. I think I've just been stupid and running my chain a little too loose and then my chain develops a lot of side to side movement. I use a file guide and bench vise at home. Decided to just buck up and buy a new bar/chain and take better care of it. I'll probably swap the bar/chain for any buried logs.

How often do you guys seem to go through bars/chains? Given I'm cutting a lot of old growth half buried logs but still.