Any one else here go mountain biking?

[luke66]

Planning on getting myself my first MTB in these coming weeks

 

[CreepyQuarryCrawler]

Can we dissect this?
It just popped up in my feed after chatting in the thread

First off, this is a big drop, like 6' maybe 8' but I think that's like max height.

In my mind, she was going to slow.
A touch more speed and a pump+pull-up just as the rider approached the drop would have helped.

I can tell she's about as far rearward as she can place her weight, her butt is almost touching the tire. But once that straight down momentum started, the rider was cooked.

The other line I see is trying that ride down more on the left and try to match the angle but it puts you toward the tree.

 

[Guest D]

Can we dissect this?
It just popped up in my feed after chatting in the thread

First off, this is a big drop, like 6' maybe 8' but I think that's like max height.

In my mind, she was going to slow.
A touch more speed and a pump+pull-up just as the rider approached the drop would have helped.

I can tell she's about as far rearward as she can place her weight, her butt is almost touching the tire. But once that straight down momentum started, the rider was cooked.

The other line I see is trying that ride down more on the left and try to match the angle but it puts you toward the tree.

If she let off the brakes it would have dropped the rear tire.

 

[sylentk]

Yeah, a bit too much front brake. And that last bit seems to have a bit of "blip" to it. Which isn't optimal, should be smooth. The riders fork was probably already bottomed out. Then hit the blip and...well...you saw what happened.

I would have crawled up to the crest too. But once pointed down, only use rear brake. Unweight the front a tad for the blip let the rear take it on (fully off the brakes for a split second). Hopefully the runout is straight. Then get on the brakes. Breathe. Thank the world you did it and lived

 

[xjtorc]

I started riding Mtb in 2010 at 325 lbs. There wasn’t a saddle rail I couldn’t bend, a rear hub I couldn’t strip out, nor a spoke that could stay true.

I liked riding…a lot…fast forward 4 years to when I met my wife in 2014 I was down to 194 lbs. getting to that weight involved me riding nearly every day and calorie counting. I was lucky to have a trail that was predominately gravely single track that could be ridden in any weather, just 4 minutes from my office at the time. I rode almost 1000 miles of single track the first year. Once I lost a solid 100 lbs, I took up downhill. Had a super sick, super kitted out Konta Entourage that I beat the living snot out of all over the east coast. Snowshoe in West VA was my all time favorite DH spot. Ended my downhill career by launching a 40 foot table top and landing on my neck. Separated my shoulder and came close to cracking my clavical. Barfed and blacked out after smacking the ground. Don’t even remember being carted off the mountain.

Today, I have a Diamondback carbon hardtail 29er that I take out to the local trails a few times a year with my son whenever we have the spare time. He has a pretty cool 24” GT bike. I can’t remember the model. That dude loves to ride too. My daughter is more of a beach cruiser girl lol.