Mountain Biking

Forest of dean was awesome today. Weather was perfect, the drive usually takes nearly 3 hours and took only 2 and the tracks were mint.

I was set on doing the 2 GBU drops but fagged out hard as a mofo. The thing is I just think of risk vs reward. I cant afford to be off work for a month so the risk isn't worth it to be honest. If I knew I was good enough to do it then I would just do it, but the doubt is there so I would literally be throwing myself off it without knowledge of the outcome.

My favourite runs were GBU and ski run. I tried one called bottle opener and it was mental, just off camber roots the whole way down, I was just thinking I'm coming off in a second but didn't.

2 major accidents put a dampener on the day, at least 1 had to be air lifted off if not both, never nice seeing that.

My friend come off a corker and got it all on gopro hopefully, I'll get uploading.
 
new mrp didnt last long

fourth ride on it ?

tried to pedal away from the car park ticket machine on a flat car park at QECP last night and i guess i was in a hard gear? one pedal and cruch no more mrp
:(

was £55 so i guess £18.33 per ride?

emailed shop I got if from but knowing my luck they will tell me to sod off :(:(

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On the subject of Drops and Jumps, when I was at Chicksands they have a few areas of progressive drops and jumps so you can start off easy and move your way up to the bigger ones. While I was there I was recommended a guy that does some training in the above - Tom Dowie. I have booked a session this Saturday with him just in time for the trip to Morzine :)
 
nick5466 said:
On the subject of Drops and Jumps, when I was at Chicksands they have a few areas of progressive drops and jumps so you can start off easy and move your way up to the bigger ones. While I was there I was recommended a guy that does some training in the above - Tom Dowie. I have booked a session this Saturday with him just in time for the trip to Morzine :)
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Tom's a good bloke, you'll learn a lot :)
 
The funny thing is the only thing which doesn't need attention is the front wheel, brakes and reverb lol!

Might as well scrap it haha
 
The shop dealing with it contacted Trek today with some pictures and they want to see the frame now as they haven't seen one fail like this before and were asking all sorts of questions... Joy I got a feeling this may turn into an argument with Trek :/
 
Do you think the fact it had already cracked somewhere put extra strain on it at the second fail point? I would've thought that's the only kind of thing that might cause you an argument, everything I've heard about Trek has been positive for frame replacements.
 
Did you keep riding it after the crack? They could argue the existing damage could've put stresses through the frame/pivots/bolts outside of spec.
 
Maybe but it may bite you on the arse.

And as a fellow trek owner I'm sure we've seen the catastrophic failures treks have had around where yours is cracked. Brave to keep riding it either way.
 
Yea know what your saying, was last ride out before it went into the shop tomorrow any ways for the swing-arm and fork service as well as other bits and bobs.. Typical :/

I've asked the shop to ask Trek if I could upgrade to a carbon frame if the warranty comes through
 
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