Captain Fastbastard Mayhem

To be honest I just want some more distance in my training and there's no way in hell I'm subjecting my baby to the torture of tar. Plus, have you HEARD knobblies on an IDT! ?

Those toyota lumps are fantastic. Reliable and strong..

I still REALLY wanna build one of those...

Yeah, looks like the Atom v8.

iirc Hayley's bike weighs around 25kg. That's the ktm (aka Fat Bastard), not the intense

Nope. No "better" way. It's all in the linkages and leverage ratios. Of those I'd go for the giant. Best suspension kinematics of the lot....

New wheels for the roadie...

Ask Crow about how that 80mm performs. Way above his expectations. He's slapped a 120mm fork at the front and it's a trail munching machine. Lockout isn't needed with the monarch at the back. Shock and the suspension design work brilliantly together.

Stravaaaaaaaaaaa!

Lol. Yeah he is. But his dad rides for re:cm iirc. He's up at tokai all the time. Kids got talent.

If his mate is the Moir kid, that lightie can RIDE. Trains with his dad, Mark Moir, who's no slouch himself.

Vipa has a better suspension design as well as being a local product. Vipa all the way.

liked just so I could unlike

It does look like a reign x doesn't it...

I do, of a time, and the Spazzes far outweigh the Vipas. You just see the vipa more often 'cos you lust after it so much, so you notice them more. They stand out of the spaztastic & giant crowd.

Yeah. It is good practice.

Also looks as if he's bulked up a fair bit...

for 60k you can also get a vipa with X0 and carbon wheels... the Vipa comes as a frame only option as well, so you can pick what you want. Shimano fan or SRAM. And edit: BAHAHAHAHAHHAHA!!! No way in hell, dude.

Ooooh that's nice!

Fixed

On "that corner" on Vasbyt (just before the rock drop) and any other sections with reduced visibility, I've now taken to shouting "riiiider!" to warn anybody coming up...

hence the directionality debate. But I for one would not like to have Vasbyt (for example) closed until there is a viable up - only trail, or at least one being built. I can handle a year of not going up Vasbyt in return for down only on Vasbyt, if there's a promise of up-only trail within a particular time-frame.

noooooo! Almost as bad as the directionality time brackets that were put forward a while back (up only from 6-12, down only from 12-6)

So true. We aren't exactly the most accepting bunch, even within our own discipline. Sad. As for the safety, the rules (or lack thereof) need to be amended as the volume of traffic increases. With the lower numbers of years past, the trail running and MTB coexisting topic was less of an issue as the volume of runners just weren't there. It's only in the past 2 years that the running has increased to such a point that it has become dangerous to house the 2 disciplines on the same trail. Speed differential, direction difference and just plain apathy is the main reason for the safety concern. In addition to that, running over features destroys them - plain and simple. Less than a horse would, but the impression of a foot will cause runnels and eddies to form faster than they would without foot traffic (akin to locking the back brakes) Basically - the more runners on the trail, the more dangerous it becomes for both parties, especially when the 2 user groups are travelling in opposite directions, and with the ever-increasing height of the growth on the trails.

What tires did you change to, and what did you have before? Would have made a huge difference...