Just got into downhill

[BruceSki]

Four of us rented Jamis Dakar Bam's at Mount Snow Vermont.

It's a pisser. I never want to pedal again. Like riding a motocross bike in neutral.

Going back again in two weeks. Saw some youtube video and they extended the jumps section of the park since we went a few weeks ago.

Just rode some local trails this afternoon with a bunch of small 2-3 foot doubles and table tops on my hard tail diamondback response and realized how much more fun the downhill geometry bikes are to jump.

 

[madness maker]

cool you got to tryout dh!,we been doin it for a few years, and either hit mountain creek, or plattkill mtn just about every wkd in the season(grounded this yr due to shoulder injury) and hiland in nh a few times a year, you should give mountain creek a try sometime, lots of diffrent sections from rocky tech sections, to dirt jump trails, all skill levels etc. its amazing what these bikes can do,telling someone about it does no justice, when you ride one you just gotta get your mind out of the state of "theres no way i can go down or over that", heres a vid on the back side of mountain creek last year on my intense m9,shows a few diffrent sections.(best view in 720) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYOt435_U40&list=UUmEGuFvcV_6PmHf4L69N1xA&index=6&feature=plcp

 

[Mobile Chernobyl]

^ Sounds like your bike is made of sea shells! Did you skip anthem drop? Looks like the natural trails are in dismal shape as usual lol - was that towards the end of the year?



It's a fun sport - way easier to injure yourself though! lol. Part of the reason I always wanted to get into jet skiing - my mentality was crashing into water head first at 30-40mph is a lot better than crashing into a solid rock head first at 30-40mph (Which I unfortunately have, and have a helmet with a hole in the top and I'm a whole .25-.5" shorter than I used to be! lol). So far this has held true!

I shot this back before GoPro's were really around, and HD was almost unheard of on helmet cam setups. We rode around with a camera in a case I made and had to affix a bullet cam on our helmet. This view I did by counterbalancing a pole on my helmet so it would sort of look over the rider lol - made for a lot of fun in the trees! This was back when the ski pole look back shots were all the rage and people were messing around with helicopter pivots and lol.

I'll eventually get back into the sport, its just too addicting. Strictly freeride though!

[video=youtube;H68uWG1YnT4]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H68uWG1YnT4&list=UUdUpfZ3xfwQ2OrPkhxo5Z5Q& index=13&feature=plcp[/video]

 

[Wolf Child]

As someone that has raced DH in NORBA Nationals almost 2 decades ago...this is NOT downhil. this is freeriding. glad you had fun, though.

 

[madness maker]

^ Sounds like your bike is made of sea shells! Did you skip anthem drop? Looks like the natural trails are in dismal shape as usual lol - was that towards the end of the year?



It's a fun sport - way easier to injure yourself though! lol. Part of the reason I always wanted to get into jet skiing - my mentality was crashing into water head first at 30-40mph is a lot better than crashing into a solid rock head first at 30-40mph (Which I unfortunately have, and have a helmet with a hole in the top and I'm a whole .25-.5" shorter than I used to be! lol). So far this has held true!

I shot this back before GoPro's were really around, and HD was almost unheard of on helmet cam setups. We rode around with a camera in a case I made and had to affix a bullet cam on our helmet. This view I did by counterbalancing a pole on my helmet so it would sort of look over the rider lol - made for a lot of fun in the trees! This was back when the ski pole look back shots were all the rage and people were messing around with helicopter pivots and lol.

I'll eventually get back into the sport, its just too addicting. Strictly freeride though!

[video=youtube;H68uWG1YnT4]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H68uWG1YnT4&list=UUdUpfZ3xfwQ2OrPkhxo5Z5Q& index=13&feature=plcp[/video]

yea this bike is loud, was twards the end of year when things started going dowhill for diablo park, i havent been there since it was taken over and run by mountian creek this year, i did skip it, in that vid i was recovering from a fracturd wrist so i was trying to take it a bit easy.
def. alot more injurys in this sport, i've fractured ribs,broken helmets from hitting trees, have a finger that i cant bend straight anymore.. as well as all the scars from the wonderful pins on the pedals.. but its all worth it..lol

speaking of trees, skip forward to about 1:40 in this vid..got lucky on this one.. from platikill mtn ,on my old bike. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ke7AVMLQIRQ&feature=BFa&list=UUmEGuFvcV_6PmHf4L69N1xA

bruce, you should give plattikll a try sometime also, not as big but some good riding there as well.

 

[motozachl]

I recently got into mtn biking as well and its a rush. Nice video

 

[Mobile Chernobyl]

As someone that has raced DH in NORBA Nationals almost 2 decades ago...this is NOT downhil. this is freeriding. glad you had fun, though.

Agreed Wolf (if you were talking to me?). It's sorta hard to do a race run with a 3 foot cantilevered beam and camera on your head though!

 

[Fro Diesel]

Sick. I used to work at mount snow vermont. Good times.

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[Wolf Child]

Agreed Wolf (if you were talking to me?). It's sorta hard to do a race run with a 3 foot cantilevered beam and camera on your head though!

I wasnt actually. but I remember those old helmet cam rigs, I still have one somewhere.


I did some digging on what has become of the sport of DH. like most everything it was litigated into something that is a mere shadow of itself. And NORBA has become a new entity that is truely sad. i feel like a part of me just died a little.

 

[Wolf Child]

this is more like it. Now I feel all warm inside.

 

[shaunsteezy]

this is more like it. Now I feel all warm inside.

iv rode this and its nuts! go as fast as you want to go, guys were going 60mph+. @:40 there was a 15-20 ft double jump if you went straight right into this impossible dh section. i spent tons of money (what i thought before i got into motosurf) on dh mtb but never used it as much as i thought i would. its an awsome sport and i was planing on going to mammoth again this summer until the city claimed bankruptcy...

 

[BruceSki]

The rocky technical sections are fun as hell, but I think I am into the smooth hardpack with dirtjumps, berms and drops more. If that's freeride thats fine.

John- we are definitely going to try mountain creek for a day trip before the season ends.

The place in NH looks sick too, looked it up last week.

 

[SeanEboy]

Count me in for sure... I just picked up a Yeti AS-X in June, yet to bomb it down anything more than the crap out here I have to pretty much walk it up.. ;c)

Funny, before buying it, I posted on my cycling forum asking if anyone had any info on the bike.. The freakin' factory sponsored rider got in touch with me, it was his old bike - the frame had been upsized for the new rider.. But, he took a few podiums with it. And, the shock is a custom, preproduction/beefed up version that was deemed too expensive to reproduce.. The thing is an absolute monster, 8" rear travel, 7" front.. I can't wait to tear it up...

 

[BruceSki]

Looks sweet!!

 

[Mobile Chernobyl]

this is more like it. Now I feel all warm inside.

Ahh... 50T chainrings and 4 inches of oil soaked elastomer suspension! It's funny to see the trends in suspension over the years, for the last 10 at least 8 & 8 has been the standard though! I got into the sport in 2003 when Bender was all the rage and companys like Astrix and Canfeild were putting out models with 13" rear and a super monster T up front! It's definately progressing towards what BruceSki prefers tho - smooth fast and flowy trails! I was always in favor of ladder stunts and the gnarly technical rock/boulder strewn trails where 20mph was Hallin Oates!

 

[madness maker]

Ahh... 50T chainrings and 4 inches of oil soaked elastomer suspension! It's funny to see the trends in suspension over the years, for the last 10 at least 8 & 8 has been the standard though! I got into the sport in 2003 when Bender was all the rage and companys like Astrix and Canfeild were putting out models with 13" rear and a super monster T up front! It's definately progressing towards what BruceSki prefers tho - smooth fast and flowy trails! I was always in favor of ladder stunts and the gnarly technical rock/boulder strewn trails where 20mph was Hallin Oates!

The monster t was the st ! I almost built a foes long travel dh bike last year, but I came to my senses and built a std 8-9" travel bike that suits most of the the terrain where I go.. All this talk of dh bikes making me wanna go ride!

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[BruceSki]

we are going to mt snow on the weekend of the 22nd if you wanna meet up and ride!!! been riding the woods around here a bunch but it just doesn't compare