Doooood, take it easy. :nono: 
Great to be back on the bike again, yeah? Now...stay ON the bike!
Great to be back on the bike again, yeah? Now...stay ON the bike!
1st real ride 3 OTBs
Like the title says I got out for my first what I call a real ride, sorry no ride pix it! A real ride for me is with some cool buddis and lots of rain, I had both, and 2 crazy Dogs Maxxis and Jack
We hit the beach a top spot, it was raining cats and dogs purfect, 2 jerseys and one jacket, a pisspot, and moto googles in roll off mode and first time since 07, I drew on my RF leg guards
The boys were all on big rigs:eekster: Jedi, Diggle and a Glory along for the ride, a Regin rider joined us a bit later on!
Let loose the dogs of war, Jack the english terrier was off the little Alien he reminds me of an Alien from the Alien movie but hes a great dog and awesome personality, add in my mutt Maxxis and full on running choas is on point non stop!
A quick ride up the road to the fence to hit the Hoff or the Husslehoff trail, so a quick drop off the fence line to the bottom of the trail and I'm on my bike for no more than a second, my fogged up googles with the fancy rolloffs just determined to let me down sent me for my first over the bars into the soft sand about 5feet to the bottom RFX tumbling on top of me, I avoided completely landing on my neck or head, oouch some pain, but I'm good.
Time to make the big walk up the Hoff and catch up to the others who were long gone with the too mutts!
The googles are thrown into the back pack:nono:
So after a good 10-15min of walking pushing he bike up this awesome trail even backwards ya get a sense of the flow of this wikid trail its all flow, off camber roots in all the wrong places just waiting to nail ya on the apex of a corner, I love it this is my kind of trail!
So we get to the top, and head up to the upper Hoff with some gappers for the boys to try, I'm not in flight mode and won't be for sometime, not by choice anyway. though I did sneak in a few 2fts to flat later on got to be done not a real ride otherwise!
So the boys start sessioning a run or too and its plain the ground up here out of the trees is soft, not muddy or wet because its got great drainage being mainly a good sand base but packed, still soft, the lads are determined to do some air time tranny shaping, ex coming up short which is fun to watch, I got some vid so when I get a chance I will upload on a faster connection!
After that we hit some other narly downhill trail I hadn't ridden for well at least too years it was steep and soft, very steep and very soft, my second OTB fook, this time a little harder, and bunged my leg avoiding the head neck impact, oh well HTFU I told myself the boys are gone try to get some move on, another corner and big drop and no nanny line I tried to make one and then fook another OTB this time rolling down the drop, thank gawd its all soft sand here and branches to the side of the trail, bear in mind on my my own here no one to follow my loyal dog yeah right, when Jacks around hes gone, is well down the bottom of the trail with the lads I suspect, I dust off and feel pretty fookered now, so cruise myself safely to the end of this trail.
By now I realize I'm not the rider I was and its still a long way to go, to be fair I have re damped my fork and while that's working great I also need the stiffest stiff spring in my Van 36, in my local I can get away with my setup and with my new damping it will be butter but its dosen't push you like the beach does not on 6inch, the Beach aka A51 is a challenge if ya know where to ride! my 66 would have loved this the 36 is gonna take some time and more tuning and me mostly, I would say though that on the ground it mostly traced awesome, my run down the Hoff, I wasn't far behind the boys a real tech flow trail with off cambers ready to down you if ya push it or are cocky, I stayed on there and was in full control so was stoked, also I mounted my Romic back on and was very impressed with how the shock performed with my SS setup, it was butter progressive and pedaled great.
We hit the AFL to end another nice wee trail, but with some drops smaller 2-4 ft jumps some with hidden hole son the other side ya can't see until its too late so if not enough sped it can be nasty, I hit a few of these and came up short on the last one as it looked a tame 2ft to flat I nailed it more like a 4ft with gap but the Romic held its line while I had a wee moment and carried on!
So great ride painful but fun, it stretched me out for sure, now I need to get a stiffer spring, a Full Face and neck brace, good to see one of our crew riding a Leatt this day too, :thumbsup:
Now a full week of recovery and physio hopefully
One wee pix, I had some Enduro seals put on as well as a fluid rate change, the fork is like butter and after riding in these conditions the seals are awesome, usually a bit of rain would have the fork covered in black gunk oozing out of the stock seals I suspect fluid, not so with Enduros clean clean and smooth, impressed! they look good too:thumbsup:
We hit the beach a top spot, it was raining cats and dogs purfect, 2 jerseys and one jacket, a pisspot, and moto googles in roll off mode and first time since 07, I drew on my RF leg guards
The boys were all on big rigs:eekster: Jedi, Diggle and a Glory along for the ride, a Regin rider joined us a bit later on!
Let loose the dogs of war, Jack the english terrier was off the little Alien he reminds me of an Alien from the Alien movie but hes a great dog and awesome personality, add in my mutt Maxxis and full on running choas is on point non stop!
A quick ride up the road to the fence to hit the Hoff or the Husslehoff trail, so a quick drop off the fence line to the bottom of the trail and I'm on my bike for no more than a second, my fogged up googles with the fancy rolloffs just determined to let me down sent me for my first over the bars into the soft sand about 5feet to the bottom RFX tumbling on top of me, I avoided completely landing on my neck or head, oouch some pain, but I'm good.
Time to make the big walk up the Hoff and catch up to the others who were long gone with the too mutts!
The googles are thrown into the back pack:nono:
So after a good 10-15min of walking pushing he bike up this awesome trail even backwards ya get a sense of the flow of this wikid trail its all flow, off camber roots in all the wrong places just waiting to nail ya on the apex of a corner, I love it this is my kind of trail!
So we get to the top, and head up to the upper Hoff with some gappers for the boys to try, I'm not in flight mode and won't be for sometime, not by choice anyway. though I did sneak in a few 2fts to flat later on got to be done not a real ride otherwise!
So the boys start sessioning a run or too and its plain the ground up here out of the trees is soft, not muddy or wet because its got great drainage being mainly a good sand base but packed, still soft, the lads are determined to do some air time tranny shaping, ex coming up short which is fun to watch, I got some vid so when I get a chance I will upload on a faster connection!
After that we hit some other narly downhill trail I hadn't ridden for well at least too years it was steep and soft, very steep and very soft, my second OTB fook, this time a little harder, and bunged my leg avoiding the head neck impact, oh well HTFU I told myself the boys are gone try to get some move on, another corner and big drop and no nanny line I tried to make one and then fook another OTB this time rolling down the drop, thank gawd its all soft sand here and branches to the side of the trail, bear in mind on my my own here no one to follow my loyal dog yeah right, when Jacks around hes gone, is well down the bottom of the trail with the lads I suspect, I dust off and feel pretty fookered now, so cruise myself safely to the end of this trail.
By now I realize I'm not the rider I was and its still a long way to go, to be fair I have re damped my fork and while that's working great I also need the stiffest stiff spring in my Van 36, in my local I can get away with my setup and with my new damping it will be butter but its dosen't push you like the beach does not on 6inch, the Beach aka A51 is a challenge if ya know where to ride! my 66 would have loved this the 36 is gonna take some time and more tuning and me mostly, I would say though that on the ground it mostly traced awesome, my run down the Hoff, I wasn't far behind the boys a real tech flow trail with off cambers ready to down you if ya push it or are cocky, I stayed on there and was in full control so was stoked, also I mounted my Romic back on and was very impressed with how the shock performed with my SS setup, it was butter progressive and pedaled great.
We hit the AFL to end another nice wee trail, but with some drops smaller 2-4 ft jumps some with hidden hole son the other side ya can't see until its too late so if not enough sped it can be nasty, I hit a few of these and came up short on the last one as it looked a tame 2ft to flat I nailed it more like a 4ft with gap but the Romic held its line while I had a wee moment and carried on!
So great ride painful but fun, it stretched me out for sure, now I need to get a stiffer spring, a Full Face and neck brace, good to see one of our crew riding a Leatt this day too, :thumbsup:
Now a full week of recovery and physio hopefully
One wee pix, I had some Enduro seals put on as well as a fluid rate change, the fork is like butter and after riding in these conditions the seals are awesome, usually a bit of rain would have the fork covered in black gunk oozing out of the stock seals I suspect fluid, not so with Enduros clean clean and smooth, impressed! they look good too:thumbsup:
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Way to be back in the saddle TA, but take 'er easy there pards.
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Good to hear you're back on the bike, but take it easy eh?
good point, Skunkty. I was thinking the same thing. I'm sure TA will let us know what his intentions are ... but from his posts, I think he is more of a 40ft gap guy than a heart rate monitor guy (not that he couldn't).skunkty14 said:
Haha on the wines I know my NZ wines well and some Euro ones from my days in the UK, some Aussie wines but I prefer my NZ and local region from home, they so great Pinot Gris, Pinot Noir. but I'm a Cab Sav man like my reds, but whites are good for the right occasion too
It won;t be for sometime let me tell ya and if it i it will be different to be sure, I won't be doing them on a DJ bike and I won't be wearing a PP and singlet and shorts, though I did have my RF FR guards on that day lol.
I'm not feeling any need to hit gaps or pressure just out riding for fun, it was good to get a real ride in, but mostly it was getting used to being back on a bike in that environment, my wee track is not really testing in the same way, so I wasn't sure where I really was ! Where I came off was more of not knowing the trail and in normal circumstances in my condition I would walk the trail first, like I did on Hoff, I went hard out on that one and stayed on quite comfortably because I had some idea what to expect, the other one was steeper and softer but not as techy and my fork needed more dialing in so with that it probably cancels out any danger if anything I was riding slower in that situation more tense because I was not sure what was coming and that had as much affect, which can happen in on any trail, ride loose and relaxed is what I try to tell myself, hard cause my bones are still resisting, next time I could make sure I'm more aware of the trail or take one I know till I'm more competent, but really I should be able to ride those quite comfortably!
Hard for me to go back to XC maybe 29er rider I'm more of now through injury but not style, I just can;t sit comfortably in XC position, if anything I want to go bigger forked and rear, and I'm happy to stay grounded cause Ive always been a corner rider first jump second, so I can handle not doing the jumps again but I feel the need for more travel to make up for my disabilities lol and travel the ground safer and in control, if I try to ride safe by avoiding stuff I just put myself in more danger, not to say I will seek man made gaps to put myself in danger, that's probably done for me at least for sometime! I trying to get my skills back and flexibility looking down the trail far enough to see whats coming!
What I have learned is I have no need to replace the RFX its more than enough for me, the bike feels good, the new style of bike Ive been keen on I just couldn't make use of and I'm not accurate enough to ride it at its potential, but the angles are nice on my neck
Ride Hard Die Free!!!! love it AZ
MTN 123 you guys are on the same wave length I think if I find a balance between what XC and all the others are saying I will be fine, I'm trying to go with the flow and at my own pace as my body lets, me, so baby steps and I do get more each time, it was good to see where my limits are at the mo, its like re learning all over again!
bob, moose, 6th, serrotta, fo, ramc, skunkty, cellhero, hubba,
chur guys
Moragn I hear ya definitely not a heart rate monitor guy
Ya make some good points, I can take the flow, cruisey is hard, I hate walking down anything, walking up no problemo lol 4inches XC nah not for me, I'd have to give up ridingxcguy said:
It won;t be for sometime let me tell ya and if it i it will be different to be sure, I won't be doing them on a DJ bike and I won't be wearing a PP and singlet and shorts, though I did have my RF FR guards on that day lol.
I'm not feeling any need to hit gaps or pressure just out riding for fun, it was good to get a real ride in, but mostly it was getting used to being back on a bike in that environment, my wee track is not really testing in the same way, so I wasn't sure where I really was ! Where I came off was more of not knowing the trail and in normal circumstances in my condition I would walk the trail first, like I did on Hoff, I went hard out on that one and stayed on quite comfortably because I had some idea what to expect, the other one was steeper and softer but not as techy and my fork needed more dialing in so with that it probably cancels out any danger if anything I was riding slower in that situation more tense because I was not sure what was coming and that had as much affect, which can happen in on any trail, ride loose and relaxed is what I try to tell myself, hard cause my bones are still resisting, next time I could make sure I'm more aware of the trail or take one I know till I'm more competent, but really I should be able to ride those quite comfortably!
Hard for me to go back to XC maybe 29er rider I'm more of now through injury but not style, I just can;t sit comfortably in XC position, if anything I want to go bigger forked and rear, and I'm happy to stay grounded cause Ive always been a corner rider first jump second, so I can handle not doing the jumps again but I feel the need for more travel to make up for my disabilities lol and travel the ground safer and in control, if I try to ride safe by avoiding stuff I just put myself in more danger, not to say I will seek man made gaps to put myself in danger, that's probably done for me at least for sometime! I trying to get my skills back and flexibility looking down the trail far enough to see whats coming!
What I have learned is I have no need to replace the RFX its more than enough for me, the bike feels good, the new style of bike Ive been keen on I just couldn't make use of and I'm not accurate enough to ride it at its potential, but the angles are nice on my neck
Ride Hard Die Free!!!! love it AZ
MTN 123 you guys are on the same wave length I think if I find a balance between what XC and all the others are saying I will be fine, I'm trying to go with the flow and at my own pace as my body lets, me, so baby steps and I do get more each time, it was good to see where my limits are at the mo, its like re learning all over again!
bob, moose, 6th, serrotta, fo, ramc, skunkty, cellhero, hubba,
chur guys
Moragn I hear ya definitely not a heart rate monitor guy
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