Maybe I am worrying too much but I assume that cuttting trails this deep and skidding everywhere isn't really an issue where this trail was made? It looks fun and all but I can't shake the thought of videos like this being shared by hikers and equestrians at trail access meetings to illustrate what we do to trails. We understand this is a minority and in a very specific location but others do not and kids might see this and how "rad" it looks and go bust the same moves on their local trails. I feel like vids like this might bite us in the ass.

This creates quite a dilemma for dh bike sales though. Probably the bulk of dh bike sales are for fun park runs and not racing the clock. Most of the 26aintdead folk are dh and park peeps. It will be a tough sell for them to cough up dough for a double wheelsize bump. Especially a size generally thought of as reserved for xc.

Aluminum, external routing: There is hope.

Look at that beautiful external routing. Lets get back to that.

Dope. Lovin my NS Bikes too

This looks like the ideal spot for a bottom-out and alot of these guys are not getting full travel. That is puzzling. Why ride with so many volume spacers that you can't get full travel? It effectively shortens the travel of the bike but makes it ride high in the travel. Don't we want some drop travel so the tire tracks the ground for better traction to carry speed through rough corners, etc?

Argggh! Bottle! Dammit! Read a physics book!

Stop with the water bottles on mtbs already!

That bottle would be desecrated in the first 1.5 miles of my local trails.

I will just cut and paste a comment I literally just wrote on Pinkbike: "BIKE: bobbing and weaving and whippin and generally floating around as light as can be.....RIDER: trying to be as smooth and fluid and efficient as possible (not moving nearly as much)......which makes the most sense to attach a bunch of weight to? Hint: refer to laws of physics.

Thanks my sort of debauchery right there.

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