First ride today
Love it!
Mainly Eco with occasional Tour. Very happy with handling over a mixture of road, rocky climb and muddy bridleway.
eMTB owners photo and ride thread.
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First ride today
Love it!
Mainly Eco with occasional Tour. Very happy with handling over a mixture of road, rocky climb and muddy bridleway.
Glad that you enjoyed your first ride, sadly I can't see the photo though.
First ride today
Love it!
Mainly Eco with occasional Tour. Very happy with handling over a mixture of road, rocky climb and muddy bridleway.
Many years ago I rode along a track, only to return back down it again and someone had laid a log length out across the track on a blind bend. There was nothing that I could do to avoid it, and was sent straight over the handlebars. Not a pleasant experience, but thankfully I was only badly winded.
Had a few rides on my new Felt Lebowsk e now, picture of the bike in its natural environment at Afan Argoed.
Other than those fat tyres, there's not a lot of suspension there. How's the family jewels holding up?
The front fork has 60 mm of suspension which has no rebound control.
The tyres are run at 8 psi and have a certain amount of cushion effect, which takes any harshness off the rear end.
Not uncomfortable at all, quite the opposite.
The tyres are run at 8 psi and have a certain amount of cushion effect, which takes any harshness off the rear end.
Not uncomfortable at all, quite the opposite.
Just a brief ride this evening to try out the Hutchinson Toro tyres, before the weekends Evans Ride It event.
Even from new the tyres seemingly stuck sure footed to every wet, slippery, sketchy tree root. I've been trying to decide which tyres to run on the Swiss trip in six weeks time, and after wearing out a set of tyres in under two weeks last year, I've decided to fit the worn Hutchinson DZO tyres to which ever bike that I take, destroy them over the two week period, and then fit another set of Toro's. They seem to offer the same sure footed grip and the DZO, but without the immense drag.
Just a short clip from this evening. Low light hasn't helped the quality.
Even from new the tyres seemingly stuck sure footed to every wet, slippery, sketchy tree root. I've been trying to decide which tyres to run on the Swiss trip in six weeks time, and after wearing out a set of tyres in under two weeks last year, I've decided to fit the worn Hutchinson DZO tyres to which ever bike that I take, destroy them over the two week period, and then fit another set of Toro's. They seem to offer the same sure footed grip and the DZO, but without the immense drag.
Just a short clip from this evening. Low light hasn't helped the quality.
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You can always tweak the light and stabilise it in youtube, if you wanted to do that. It's a good vid in my opinion. Thanks for sharing.
My favourite video of yours is this one. I think that it's superb.
My favourite video of yours is this one. I think that it's superb.
Thanks.
I'm back there again in six weeks, and hope to do that ride again. Frustratingly with that one, was that I rode it in the morning with no hold ups and faster, but deleted it by mistake. The road was pretty greasy when I filmed that, and I could smell burning engine oil from the Suzuki jeep for what seemed like the whole ride before catching it up. I was kind of expecting to come up behind something at every bend.
It is certainly a lovely place to ride, and there are many places that you can ride continuously down hill for that length of time.
I'm back there again in six weeks, and hope to do that ride again. Frustratingly with that one, was that I rode it in the morning with no hold ups and faster, but deleted it by mistake. The road was pretty greasy when I filmed that, and I could smell burning engine oil from the Suzuki jeep for what seemed like the whole ride before catching it up. I was kind of expecting to come up behind something at every bend.
It is certainly a lovely place to ride, and there are many places that you can ride continuously down hill for that length of time.
I took the Macina Lycan full suspension last year, but I'm currently undecided about which to take this year. The hardtail feels so much lighter and agile, and is superb for climbing, so I'm kind of leaning that way. But equally every climb has a similar length descent, where the full suspension will score. I have five weeks to think about it.
This was the ride in that video clip. The climb for that was 5.15 miles with an elevation gain of 3,570ft. The bike is shown in shot, right at the end.
The longest direct climb, not ride length, was this one at 10.9 miles, with an elevation gain of 6,362ft.
I'm going to be doing this climb again this year, and have already worked out that I can possibly extend the ride climb length a fraction more.
Other than the upper part which wasn't actually a cycle path, most of the route is covered in this lengthy 2 part clips.
Part two section of the ride, is much steeper and very hard on the wrists and forearms.
This was the ride in that video clip. The climb for that was 5.15 miles with an elevation gain of 3,570ft. The bike is shown in shot, right at the end.
The longest direct climb, not ride length, was this one at 10.9 miles, with an elevation gain of 6,362ft.
I'm going to be doing this climb again this year, and have already worked out that I can possibly extend the ride climb length a fraction more.
Other than the upper part which wasn't actually a cycle path, most of the route is covered in this lengthy 2 part clips.
Part two section of the ride, is much steeper and very hard on the wrists and forearms.
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Would it be alright to post this here?
Gotta lid...i been down there a couple of times..it,s in a huge forest..i was just passing through...ain,t been down any of their trails..lots of mtb mongs there..got called a cheat once or twice..lol..i was just passing through forestry commision land..go **** yerself...anyways..it,s £6 or...£30 for a lift up you an bike..wouldn,t mind a go on a noob track...
none of the tracks are very long 5km max should be able to do the lot on 1 batt
you want a full face lid tho tbh, think you can handle this?
you want a full face lid tho tbh, think you can handle this?
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that looks so amazing ... on wish listYou can always tweak the light and stabilise it in youtube, if you wanted to do that. It's a good vid in my opinion. Thanks for sharing.
My favourite video of yours is this one. I think that it's superb.
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