What does your day look like?

[cokeonspecialtwodollars]

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This you from the alternate angle?

 

[pink poodle]

I would like to throw it out over the jump, but I would definitely hit the rails.


Exciting news - there was some trail work going on there today. A dual slalom course has been built and is nearly finished. It looks really fun. The old gravel pump trap at the bottom has been turned into a pretty cool asphalt pump track by (i believe) the people who did the redhead pump track. Just need some sweet dj lines and I'll be a happy boy.

 

[Fred Nurk]

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This is a long way short of the biggest jump I've ever hit, in fact it isn't even the biggest jump I've hit this week, but fuck me I had to work for it! I'm on the smallest cog in my cassette and absolutely mashing the pedals in the reasonably steep run in to make the not very long top on this. I also felt a lot higher than this! There was not a lot of reward for the efforts.





But in bike related news, the ibis went really well. I really feel the size of the wheels and length of the bike trying to rail berms. It felt like a magic carpet over the chunder. Pedalling up wasn't too arduous. All in a good day was had.

This
is
Necessary.

 

[cokeonspecialtwodollars]

This
is
Necessary.

@Ultra Lord Can I get an amen? Can I get a hallelujah?

 

[Ultra Lord]

@Ultra Lord Can I get an amen? Can I get a hallelujah?

Best I can do is a YIEW and an aggressive shaka.

 

[cokeonspecialtwodollars]

Best I can do is a YIEW and an aggressive shaka.

The world would be a better place if the former were more often transposed with the latter.

 

[pink poodle]

@Ultra Lord Can I get an amen? Can I get a hallelujah?

An aggressive view of my shaka?

 

[Cardy George]

 

[Mattyp]

Fark...isn't it cheaper to buy wood from China by now?

 

[pink poodle]

It does make it easy to find a good line...but it is hard work digging through all the tooth picks left behind.

 

[Mattyp]

It does make it easy to find a good line...but it is hard work digging through all the tooth picks left behind.

Fark that, riding in logged wastelands is shit, there are already good lines in the trees...for not much longer apparently.

 

[pink poodle]

Fark that, riding in logged wastelands is shit, there are already good lines in the trees...for not much longer apparently.

The good things always end too soon.

 

[silentbutdeadly]

I may have been unnecessarily tempted by some Wera talk on Pinkbike, a forthcoming bike glamping trip and Amazon AU pricing. It's quite nice though...

 

[Dales Cannon]

Wifey finally agreed to get a replacement electric piano keyboard thing after many years of using the baby Yamaha thing. New one had no speaker as it is meant to drive a cab or similar in a band. #2 last century had a baby vox when he was learning the bass in 1ry school. It has long since been cupboard storage but the power supply was lost. Manual on the Web was 12V and 2.5A. I made a 1/4" patch cable and was heading off to get another power supply and socket. Found an old router which had a 12V 2.5A power supply! Stuff the socket, pull it to bits and direct solder to the board. Tie a knot to hold the cable and it works. 100% recycled. Mind you the piano sounds fucking weird in organ mode and the vox doing pedal effects.

 

[pink poodle]

Be sure to get her an appropriate cape or gown.

 

[fjohn860]

Delivery from Dr Beebenson today. Pushys and Mtbdirect could learn a thing or two from @beeb about appropriate packaging size.

Also pleasantly surprised at the weight of the future front tyre. 200g lighter than the previous one of these I had!

 

[Labcanary]

Delivery from Dr Beebenson today. Pushys and Mtbdirect could learn a thing or two from @beeb about appropriate packaging size.
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Also pleasantly surprised at the weight of the future front tyre. 200g lighter than the previous one of these I had!
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I agree, Dr Beebenson is very efficient with parcel parceling. And he is very generous to boot.

 

[pink poodle]

That's some good looking rubber @fjohn860 but 1.2kg??? That'd early naughties weights.

 

[Mattyp]

That's some good looking rubber @fjohn860 but 1.2kg??? That'd early naughties weights.

Those DD Assegais you're pedallin will be pushing 1.4

 

[pink poodle]

Those DD Assegais you're pedallin will be pushing 1.4

I'm too scared to delve into it.