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I bought my first nice MTB recently. I'm 6'1 and bought a large frame, I'm really struggling to get the wheel up at all with 29 inch wheels. I also find myself afraid to even attempt bunny hopping. It feels really strange coming from a BMX bike years ago. I really hate flat bars and think I'm going to get some 50mm rise bars soon. I feel like I can't get far enough back to save my life. If the rise bars don't help, I may swap my dropout to run 27.5 in the rear and live the mullet life.
Be cool to see long sustained rolls where there is either loos dirt going into it and or chunk prior to the roll. I know the same principles apply but still cool to see. I can have these techniques in my mind but the set up kind of blows my psych sometimes
The freaking algorithm knows!! ... Literally just watched in terror as this just happened to my 5yr old son at waterworks here in So Cal (no he wasn't whipping all turbo cool, but went airborne off the berm aka Lip off a cliff into the trees)
Like literally just was riding with him this morning and was explaining to his mom (and grandfather) where all the cuts and scrapes came from and you'd clip popped up on my phone as a suggestion
Great video, thanks . I believe the problem with the guy at Sedona was also that he did not look at the drop before, he picked the worst possible line to send it and the front wheel hit that rock and Boom..
Absolutely stupid!!! Asking for death if you are lucky permanently paralyzed for life doing these stupid stunts. I can tell by your attitude that you love to play with death. One day your luck will run out.
Nice riding! I stared riding Santos as a teenager in the 90's. We pulled up to the dirt circle and parked under an oak tree. The trails were great then too, I'm not sure when they actually started those trails but we used to ride all over that place on the older 800 series Treks and my Gary Fisher Marlin all rigid. I moved away at 20 and didn't come back to see Santos until 20years later. To see the bike shops, parking lot, and camp ground was crazy. I don't even recognize the trails we used to ride. That last big climb that you did looked exactly like the one we used to try and I never made it up all the way. But it was near a drop or roll out we called "the wall" it was a big dirt/clay wall that was super steep and scary I still haven't found it yet because I just don't recognize the place anymore. I recently bought a proper hardtail at 44years old and have been enjoying riding again, it makes me feel like I'm 20 again...LOL. I'm about 20 minutes from Grapefruit Trails in Palm Bay FL. You should check it out sometime if you haven't already its a great spot.
Why is you “only having your trail bike” bad news? Just curious. Also, did you double up the sheets of plywood on the jump? It looks like you did but wasn’t sure.
Ohhhhh, it's a Feedback Sports feedbacksports.com/collections/bike-repair-stands/products/pro-elite-commercial-clamp?variant=44803540615466 and a Park Tool wall mount socket
Hi Jeff, In your first Steezl bike video (Apr 18, 2023), you said you are 6' 4", and you went with the XL frame instead of the XXL frame. I'm 6' 3", and I like technical climbing as found in Moab and Sedona, and I'm wondering if you also went with the shorter chain stays?
I have thick hands, and had two surgeries on my left hand bc of a tendon repair in my left ring finger. That finger doesn’t have any strength, and most brake levers I can’t pull them in enough before they hit my fingers with just my index finger. So I need to use index finger and middle finger to pull the lever but then I’m only really grabbing the bar with my pinky bc my ring finger is useless. I need to figure a way to make my left brake need very little travel to engage fully.
