Captain Fastbastard Mayhem

Can do it yourself without any sort of trouble. 2 size 13 or 15 spanners (can't recall the size offhand) or even your fingers, and tighten the little nuts that are on the extreme outside of the hub, just before the skewers. Just don't tighten them too much, or you'll be squeezing the feck out of your bearings! Correct tightness - just more than finger tight.

tell me about it, Cap. I'm constantly learning new things out on the trail. Trying to get the feel of a countersteer on the uphills before trying it on the downs, seeing just HOW effective it is as a cornering tool. Trying to get even farther and lower over teh saddle, to rail those corners as hard as I can. Forcing myself to look 3, 4, 5 metres in front of me so that I don't concentrate on that log and bottle it. Knowing that I WILL hit that jump and land it. It's all what we just KNEW was right as lighties, but forgot over the years. I'm nowhere near where I was as a lightie. But I'm getting closer...

Cap, you have a PM...

Not anytime soon, Cap. Not anytime soon. Oh - on another note. I've put dibs on a leeeetle DH machine. Pittstop's GT DHI. Gonna join you guys soon, should mine gods of SARS have mine wish in thine topmost thoughts!

they both erm, "agreed" that they found it. I hear that 'twas like watching a person with a foot in their mouths trying to escape notice. OH! WAIT! - You know how that feels! Bwa! Ha! Hahahahahahahaha!!!

deathtrap from hell

sensationally simple, and yet so beautiful. I want one.

Simon & co's "jump"?

echoing Nigel Hicks - just check the ID (internal diameter) of your headset... if it's less than 44mm, it won't fit!

Ouch. Yeah, wrong weighting and you're stuffed. You need to unweight the front and manual over those water bars. If you don't unweight, the front WILL go squidgy. Having said that though, one one of the water bars there is a patch just before it that is VERY sandy. Just on the upslope side of it, as you're coming down. It's a section of deep sand, about 1.5m long that seems to have accumulated with the rains. Badly done water bar. That could quite well have caused it... go into a sandy section at speed, without being prepared for it, and you're toast. Hope your mate gets well, Mach...

Don't worry mate. That bridge he's talking about is about 3,500 metres wide and completely flat, and takes you over the little river riiiiight at the end of My Roots. The one WE'RE talking about is midway through My Roots, as I described it. Not really a bridge. Just a palette by the rock drop.

Yep - wrong one. The one they're talking about is just after a rock drop, which that section of My Roots doesn't have. The rock drop is about halfway through the trail. It's not really a bridge though, more of a pallet that's been placed on the ground to provide a bridge to land on. I know what you mean about that being treacherous when wet though!

I dunno mate. Was speaking to PorS about it a while back, but that stuff is vrek expensive and we'd pretty much have to pay for it ourselves.

I think it's JUUUUUST after, Leet. Can't remember exactly. It starts almost halfway along the rock, and wraps around to make the chicken run. So it's during, and after. If you go fast, and drop like it's hot, then you would normally clear it anyway

Dv, you seem to be referring to the bridge in Faerie Garden... the one referred to is on My Roots... But yeah, PorS and I did try to "de-moss" that Faerie Garden bridge recently...

Yeah, Parks put them in, almost straight across (perpindicularly) the main fire road, at a height of approx 20cm. They're very abrupt, especially if you don't know they're there... Ladder bridge is on My Roots, just by the rock drop. Enter at the bottom of the fire road, at the hairpin. Slight drop, into right hander. S bend, small bump (jump it, there's a tree on the right) Gap jump int BEEEEEEERM! small jump. BEEEEEERM! roots, into rock drop - LOOK TO YOUR RIGHT while in the air! There it is! BOOM! landing. Keep it straight! Left natural berm into steep, rutted down section. Up again into a jump, down to a 90 degree right hander, fast. Hard Left BERM! SLOW DOWN! 90 degree right onto bridge over river. Basically, it helps keep the chicken run nice and rut-free next to the rock drop.

+1 Heal up, buddy!

Personal experience, grb?

LOL! Seriously bro, to echo Pain or Shine - come along to the next build day when we're looking at some other singletrack. No pay, but hell - there might be a braai afterwards or something, and you can put back into those trails that you ride. Just please don't ride up the DH only singletrack sections, mate. I know it's hard to see which ones are DH only due to the current lack of signage, but I'm sure you know by now...

yep. And one of those gazelles is my wife!

That's why I like road riding. At times. Having said that, a woman in full DH kit does sorta do it for me as well. That whole "rough n ready" thing.

He woulda met my spade... :-)

Nope. Probably someone not cognizant of their limits, or they hit the waterbars on the long fire road at speed...

Damn, you lucky! Good find, Nigel.

Crow, that colour is sick! I want one!