PINKBIKE is exhausting...

PINKBIKE I notice has:

Can Cristina ride as fast at night as she can during the day?

Now...having done a small amount of night riding off road - and completely terrified myself, I know the answer. It's the same answer as 'will Christina ride as fast uphill dragging an anvil behind her bike?' and 'will Christina be able to cycle as fast if we remove her wheels?


Although...interestingly, she was only 3% slower on her 2.40 trail. We stopped night riding when we came round a corner in the day, to find that the farmer had dug a rectangular hole 4m long, by 3m wide and 1.5m deep in the track, which was a bridleway. In the day there was enough space to go around it. In the dark we would likely not have seen it. The farmer could rightly have claimed that he managed successfully to catch two mountain-bikers that evening, three sheep and a quad bike.

Is her gnarly berm being stoked in a car park up against a rad?

Or is that a different video producing nocturnal leisure activity site?

THM - I think on your iPad you might have turned the parental discretion off...

...close your eyes and think of Keith Bontrager.....Better now?

Thursday Tribulations (anything which mildly annoys people)

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Thursday Twinges: when your back gives in after riding a mid 90s bike that is too low for you.

Excellent

2manyoranges said:

I checked again on PINKBIKE as to whether there was a video which didn't involve being in the air half the time.
Nope.
And I needed a good lie down after all the excitement on there.

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I think its a forum for the young, whereas for most here riding back in the day 'Air time' was something that came about when your canti brakes failed and you had a major off.

I'm turning 40 next year, been into MTB on/off since around '97 with 4 years of intense street and ramp BMX in my late teens/early 20s. The way that MTB has gone has certainly paved way for the 'gravel' brigade to form... I love riding offroad, not overly fast, not overly skilled but thoroughly enjoy it. Sadly I can't get 'turned on' by watching huge jumps, sick whips etc... actually found myself watching Rampage this year and didn't get a single buzz... I just can't connect with any of it, it's about as foreign and far from what I once knew as possible.

Admittedly i've owned an 'adventure' aka gravel road bike for around 6 years and only in lockdown did it fully 'click' with me. I now ride about 50/50 MTB and Gravel, not sure if others my age bracket feel the same? The other thing the industry needs to take note of is that it's very much a 'well off/rich mans' sport these days and increasingly going that way, it's mainly the middle-aged with good disposible incomes that will probably be the bulk of custom I'd say?

It's all fine, except that they're also dishing out some sh!t 'expert' advice that is going to see people break themselves.


There's some shocking understanding of physics/what's going on with rider and bike in that.

But more importantly, that leads to ropey understanding of what to do - especially the standard 'get back over the back wheel' ubiquitous advice/technique that will see people pitching hard over the bars. His fancy-dan forks are compensating for some train-wreck weight distribution, not too dissimilar to the Friday Fails he's holding up as bad technique.

xtaffa said:

It's all fine, except that they're also dishing out some sh!t 'expert' advice that is going to see people break themselves.

There's some shocking understanding of physics/what's going on with rider and bike in that.

But more importantly, that leads to ropey understanding of what to do - especially the standard 'get back over the back wheel' ubiquitous advice/technique that will see people pitching hard over the bars. His fancy-dan forks are compensating for some train-wreck weight distribution, not too dissimilar to the Friday Fails he's holding up as bad technique.

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I dont know, overly complicated but all sound advice, and does tell you the cons of certain actions too.

mk one said:

I dont know, overly complicated but all sound advice, and does tell you the cons of certain actions too.

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The still on the title screen/from 4min in says it all. Not much control of that front wheel as it lands, and it's Bronco time when the rear wheel hits with all the weight out back. Same with manualling at low speed. Same with 'push' at high speed. Arms extended, weight way out at the far end of the endo piivot point. It all looks like the derided 1990s/saddle up downhilling style, but more stoked.

If nothing else it's inconsistent because he goes to town on avoiding the instinct to move back/away from danger at one point.

Dunno, was taught - very late in life mind - to simply keep weight centred on the bike and match/absorb the landing to the ground. A bunny hop before/off the lip at speed and bend knees as needed to match any slope. Get chest down behind the stem and roll down at low speed.