I actually remember that in the 90s my bike was so short that when going down something steep, as an emergency bail-out I was able to just literally sit down behind my rear wheel...... A bit hard to imagine on my modern, long reach "enduro" bike, even with a 27.5 wheel. My early bikes also had a rigid fork, then my "long travel" bike had 7.5cm in the rear and 12.5cm on the front ... crazy times, now that doesn't pass for a XC bike :)
I remember back in the day, riding S_x Boy on my hardtail with canti brakes. Good times! 09:45 that rock shelf was named "Collette's Crack". No, I don't know who Collette is or how the name came to be!
She bounces only on weekends lol another great video Nick 800mil bars and tight spaces what could possibly go wrong and at 2:30 and 10:15 sums up Dave’ riding style in a nutshell
Thats 100% it I think. Almost all the trails by me are from the 90's and you can tell they were built for bikes of that era. Very tight turns along with trees that are way to close to the trail for modern bar width.
My wife wants to do this ( when she was younger she had a mtb ) but she wants to be out side in natur and have fun. Here in the Netherlands the terrain is different than in Canada but can you give advice for a good bike for a nice price ( we are not ritch and i am invalide ). I want her to be save and a bike that can stand a fall plus what kind of frame ( small, medium or lage ). Thank you for your videos. Greetings from the Netherlands.
I rekon because the trail was in smoother condition back then with less riders and at lower speed. Like, if this is the only trail you could ride are you just gonna say "yeah, i quit the hobby" or muster up and slowly learn your way up to where you can confidentally do it ? Also I think people just ran DH bikes with normal gearing to have the suspension for the big hits.
We didn't have hydraulic disc brakes back then which were a real game changer, so I'm puzzled as well. I couldn't ride seventh when it was first built because I found it too steep.
Idk some "normal" brakes worked quiet well especially with softer pads. That is as long the rim stayed dry... 2 drops of rain and the brake was basically useless.. I remember having the hydraulic magura brakes that go onto the rim- I bend a lot of wheels with them.. but well set up V-brakes would still work better. Modern brakes are obviously a lot better- but I still encounter some really awful disc brakes these days.. for example the tektro ones that came on my ebike..
@@olik136 The main problem was the seat stays were thin and deflected a lot (that's why the horse shoe brake braces were invented) and we do live on the wet coast so our rims were pretty much always squeaky. I do agree V brakes changed things.
this was film in insta 360 regular video mode or hdr? can you share your settings. i just started using one now but i could not get the results that i was hopping for. thanks in advance. awesome content by the way!
Bike is looking really sick. I´ve been thinking about repainting my bike to a purple like yours for quite a while now. But why´d you switch back to 29 and how is the sr suntour feeling?
My first bike had a steelframe and also no suspension, the second one had 4 cm frontsuspension🫸🫷 The bikes got always better, in the era they were cool, nowadays they drive shitty. 2005 to 2010 bikes were really light(crosscountry) and had good brakes, suspension was good enough.
I remember it being difficult but the bikes were built different too. Although these trails may be originated in the 90s they have definitely been changed along the years in line with geometry changes.
mountain bikers are the kind of people who will crash and have 3 broken ribs, 1 fractured wrist, and a cracked skull and ask if thier bike is okay -but are the same people who when they do break something on their bike say "ahhhh shucks my chain snapped, my frames bent, and my rear wheel is missing more spokes than i am dollar bills which i spent on my electronic shifter instead of our Mortgage that was due 14 days ago. good thing I'm only 50 grand n debt now and better yet just 9 miles till i reach the bottom of this double black diamond trail!"
Be honest... do any of these features really scare you? It seems that you ride them really naturally! When I'm afraid or anxious before hitting oa gap/jump or another feature and I do it, almost always I think "Ok, conquered it, doesn't need to do it again" 😂
That is some seriously nice trail man. I am pretty envious. It's like you just cannot ride all the trails because there are so many. Our local trails in the center of Germany are not so diversified. 🥲
