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Will the photos you're discussing be visible anywhere? Love looking at the history and getting the backstory.

Yes, Trail Slayer be slayin'

Great article. I think it hints at just what a knife edge some trails might actually be on. Authorizations and signs and history means a lot, until you wake up one AM and they didnt. People need to speak up at every occasion when the Districts take any action that reduces your ability to ride the Shore.

And zero sum game, I hope that doesnt mean that something has to go before we get that route up to the Bobsled switchback from BP. Come to think of it, last time I rode by that area, it looked like that route was already in use! FREERIDE ASCENT YO!

Those guys rode it well. I bet that Dougie was taking all the sneaky Strava lines all the way down too. 

I hope Dougie gets what he needs before hibernation and that his show'biz days are done. He looks like a good guy - probably didnt mean anything threatening - he turned around as soon as those guys stopped. He was probably just bored and wanted a game of chase for a bit. Who could blame him?

I don’t know if my Ego esaw is lighter after batteries are considered, but it’s quiet and where I maintain trails that’s very important.

I have three batteries for it and have been in situations where that’s not enough - and that requires you finish up a different day - which is a real PITA having to do two trips that a gas saw could have done in one.

It’s silence means I get to use it at home too at all hours. Helps for firewood, and I live in a neighbourhood.

Personally, I got it for its silence only.

I see this type of thing a lot, and some of it is very sophisticated.

We had a hacker impersonate a vendor of ours, with an email address that was very close to identical. They used our vendors signatures and pretended to be the vendor when they redirected payment to a "new account of theirs" from the account we had been using. It happened TWICE - without proper protocols in place where Accounts Payable call the vendor contact and speak with them to confirm the redirection of funds, its virtually impossible to catch. 

A friend of mine was to receive a $3M direct investment from an investor; the fraudsters impersonated him to the investor and redirected that payment as well (they caught it fast and before the money landed in an account they couldnt retrieve it from). 

Short story is that email is super easy to impersonate and when there are account changes for any payments, you need to confirm verbally.

Screw that, Im going for KOM!!!!!  Im coming for you ebikers.

How does track IR work in DCS? If youre looking right behind you, what screen are you looking at? Or do you turn your head much less than 180 to see 180 on the screen?

Yeah, the new Slayer seems like a win. Most of the people who I speak with describe it a bit different however; people who have the new and have had the old Slayer describe the new one as "a different beast", "bigger hit bike", "feels like a DH bike"....and the old one as a more versatile trail bike than the new one. Who knows, I havent ridden the new one. Wheel size aside, I think that there was a lot of overlap between the last Slayer and the Instinct (and Altitude for that matter) that the same person could be happy on either one. My guess is that the new Slayer is a bigger bike and agree, likely more separation from Altitude and Instinct than the old Slayer. Perhaps Rocky will create further separation by changing the Altitude and Instinct too.

I really like my last gen Slayer for its versatility. Feels like a great trail bike to me!

Also agree that the new SWorks Enduro looks like the big winner this year.

Well VR goggles are now below $500. You can run them on your machine. My Rift S' were $450 boxing day sale.

Thanks- I’ve got the Logitech x56 flight stuff so should be fine. 

My computer isn’t crazy. Its just a 3GHz i7 with 16Dram. You can easily get a gaming PC capable of running VR for under $1500. If you’re buying it for VR you don’t need a fancy monitor!

Man things have progressed in video games!

I bought some Oculus Rift S goggles for my PC and downloaded DCS World combat flight sim, and my god, this is.......crazy. Its as if Im sitting in the cockpit. My neck is actually sore from dogfighting in F15s!

Im looking forward to downloading new modules with clickable cockpits - ie, the entire cockpit is mapped - you dont hit buttons on your keyboard, you look at the button/dial in the cockpit (which is a 100% model of the real plane) and use it (and the flight stick/throttle).

Visually, when Im spinning or about to crash, it makes my stomach feel like its actually happening. NUTS.

Anyone else here have these goggles/play DCS? What other games do you like?

My Outbound Ultimate DH kit arrived and I’ve had it out for one ride. This lot combines their trail light on the bars with their road light for your helmet  

Positives:

GoPro helmet mount

90 minute ride with 60minute climb at start - had the bars on low and the helmet on medium. Went to high on both for the ride down. Ended the ride at greater than 75% battery left on both (shows as full so I don’t know exactly)

Construction is awesome. Both were solid and didn’t move. Battery stayed in position too,

Helmet light is light enough it didn’t bug me on my Fox Flux

Beam pattern is wicked. The bars (trail) project a wide rectangle across the trail to maybe 20feet infront. The helmet (road) mount slots in above that - not as wide but more square. The two work really well together on the slower tech I was riding.

Cable was long enough to put the helmet battery in the rear pocket of my jacket.

I don’t have any true negatives after just one ride but:

On high, while the two were certainly bright enough, they were not as bright as I expected. I think that this has to do with the beam pattern being dispersed over a broader area- which is why I chose these lights.

Not easy to tell what setting you’re on for the helmet because you can’t see the gauge- took some cycling through to figure it out.

I don’t think that the bar mount (trail) would be enough to ride with alone without a helmet light of some sort.

Shipping from the US meant $40 duty. Total cost for the Ultimate DH kit (bar and helmet) was c$500 ish to my door. I picked it up black Friday sale for us$335

It’s nice having killer lights. Safety first!!!

That letter is amazing. We are watching the mental collapse of the President in real-time; what a deranged mess he is. It is shocking that that is the letter he releases with teams of lawyers and aides at his side. Clearly he trusts nobody to guide him through this process - no professional opined on that - or if they did he ignored it. Awesome! If Im north Korea I do a missle test 10 seconds after the House vote. I might even have it painted like Baby Trump!

He is after all, and first and foremost, a reality TV Star (even more so than a developer). How he runs his day to day life, and unfortunately his Office, is just like if cameras were following him around an island or in a locked up house. I keep waiting for SNL to do a White House Apprentice segment where Donald is fighting off being fired every episode.