VelociBacon posted:

I would recommend looking at previous BC Enduro race loops and taking a day to see how you feel doing the whole thing. The closest one was in Abbotsford at Vedder, here's the link for the 2019 race. Note the 1600m (5250ft) of climbing. This is ~20% of the height of Everest.

I did the one in Vernon, it was raining and I actually had to walk two sections which was embarrassing, I hadn't pre-ridden the course and didn't have the confidence to hit two of the blink rock chutes in the wet. It was a little like that slab chute at Whistler on upper joyride.

mashed_penguin posted:

Yeah that's a good idea. I definately need to work up to it. I did a vedder lap a couple of weeks back but again only around ~600m. Looking at that course I pretty much did the first climb and then descended so a bit under half of the climb in that course. Need to find the time to do some longer pedal days and work up to it.

mashed_penguin posted:

So far I have not been murdered by goons from the internet so this seems like a great idea.

I do plan to get a better more shuttleworthy bike rack pretty soon. I have an old school horizontal carry one which works fine for a couple of bikes but I really want to get a North Shore or another vertical carry style. They just look so much easier to use.

meowmeowmeowmeow posted:

The classic conundrum of am I getting better at riding mtb, or getting better at riding this one trail.

Riding new stuff is good and cool for this very reason.

VelociBacon posted:

Yeah I'd love to ride different park specifically.

Steak posted:

I swear there is no feeling like when you're trying a trail for the first time and you realize just how little you actually know and how poor your fitness actually is.

Suburban Dad posted:

I have sram but prefer Shimano. Too bad my hub prefers sram.

n8r posted:

My reply made no sense.
Meant a to say that you can run shimano shifter/derailleur on a sram cassette and vice versa.

i flunked out posted:

Actually makes me think, could you use a shimano hg+ cassette and chain and an axs derailleur? You would also need the front chainring to be hg+, right? I wouldn't mind that if you could still get the hg+ smoothness and the wireless actuation/cockpit

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Ok, so, here’s the thing: On my 2020 Specialized Enduro, I’ve been able to achieve something very close to a best-of-both-worlds scenario. But there’s a catch. My XTR/AXS bike doesn’t shift better than a pure Shimano 12-speed mechanical drivetrain. It does not shift better than the SLX-equipped Ibis Ripmo I’m currently long-term testing. At best, I think what I’m getting is something that’s as good or something very close to as good. My Enduro shifts better than it would with a full SRAM drivetrain, but not better than a full Shimano one.

The long and the short of it is, this whole thing is not guaranteed and it costs a ton of extra money to achieve shifting quality that is not better than Shimano SLX.

kimbo305 posted:

I downgraded from Minions to Dissector/Aggressor with Cushcore, and just wasn't confident about their grip in the last couple rides.
I didn't get a ton of practice with the low speeds I was carrying in most spots, but had a few good moments feeling the transition from on the edges of the center knobs to sitting on the side knobs. Definitely restored some confidence about these tires.
Was running 21psi in the rear (2.3", 205lbs), and felt the squishy insert a couple times over roots. That in itself would be ok, but I also thought it squirmed a bit too much in some turns. I suspect that there's one spot where the insert is off center -- you can see the tire kick to the side when you spin the wheel -- and maybe it's when I'm leaned over and that turned spot rolls over the ground?

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Bilirubin posted:

I'm still rocking the OG High Rollers, but I have never had the confidence to lean them right over having washed out on them a few times. I have been seriously thinking about getting Minions. Normally I run about 30-35 PSI but today went 40

kimbo305 posted:

My company had a mental health day on Friday, so I spent the afternoon riding out to the local trail to see what I still had fitness-wise.

After the 30min ride in 90F to the trail, I was pretty sapped, and forgot that a lot of the trails are flat enough that you have to make your own speed.
Still, I managed to ride into a second wind after a while, partly from all the mosquitoes closing in on me

Aphex- posted:

Wow, those are very high pressures. What weight are you? I'm not surprised you kept washing out if you've had that much air in the tyres. To be honest I was never a fan of high rollers, but they've got some pretty big side knobs so they should be giving you a fair amount of grip.

For the conditions here in the UK I'm rocking a super soft magic mary up front and a soft big betty at the back year round and I could not imagine running anything else, I really think they're the perfect tyres. For what it's worth I usually run 21 front and 23 rear and I'm ~175lbs and do some fairly aggressive riding without any inserts.

Bilirubin posted:

goddamn that's quite the tear

I don't suppose that it matters that I still run tubes like a monster? And on a 13 year old bike at that

Bilirubin posted:

[TELL] me about that fork

Wistful of Dollars posted:

You didn't get the message?

kimbo305 posted:

I trust they will after this --
it's a linkage fork that moves the axle in an arc, increasing/maintaining trail for the first ~75% of travel:


Unlike a regular fork where you're used to the steering becoming dartier as the head tube dives and angle steepens, you get noticeable increased stability when the fork initially compresses.
For me, it just uncomplicates negotiating rocks/bumps mid-corner, as the front end doesn't dart around as much.

The carbon upper arch is also incredibly stiff, so it feels a bit more immediate when sawing the front of the bike around on climbs.

I'm convinced if this weighed as little as modern XC forks did, that every World Tour rider would be on it. Alas, it is much much heavier than that.

e: when I'm first on the road riding out to the trail and I hit some bumps on a turn, I always prepare having to do a bit of correction to straighten the bike out, but right away, the Trust just sorts it out on its own without requiring any input. I absolutely get why the company said this is the extreme illustration of that behavior:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mQSndGJWro&t=1s