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Old 11-01-19, 01:10 PM
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Originally Posted by prj71
Well you said this was a local trail. This assumes you ride it frequently. This also then assumes you know these features are coming up. So if you know these features are coming up on certain sections of the trail...what is there to pucker about? You already know those trees are there so you slow down before you get there. POOF!!! No pucker factor.
Really.
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Old 11-03-19, 08:10 AM
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I've run into a couple of spots like that. Maybe not quite as narrow, but they aren't trees either, they're Suguro cacti instead.
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Old 11-06-19, 09:21 AM
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You can experience some real pucker factor here. Not a couple of trees on a flat trail.

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Old 11-06-19, 04:24 PM
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This past Monday, on a really great single track I haven’t ridden in 10 years (on a 26’er with old style 600 bars) I tried getting my 750 width bars thru 2 trees about 730 apart. I’m now wearing a heating pad with a pancake sized bruise on the L leg and a very painful bruised or cracked R rib. I was moving at a good clip.

1st thing when I got home from the ride was to make the bars 700.
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Old 11-06-19, 05:06 PM
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Originally Posted by Steve B.
This past Monday, on a really great single track I haven’t ridden in 10 years (on a 26’er with old style 600 bars) I tried getting my 750 width bars thru 2 trees about 730 apart. I’m now wearing a heating pad with a pancake sized bruise on the L leg and a very painful bruised or cracked R rib. I was moving at a good clip.

1st thing when I got home from the ride was to make the bars 700.
Steve: Sorry to hear about your incident. I wish you a speedy recovery. My bars are stock at 780mm. I think I’m going to trim a little as well.
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Old 11-06-19, 06:41 PM
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Originally Posted by CodyDog
Steve: Sorry to hear about your incident. I wish you a speedy recovery. My bars are stock at 780mm. I think I’m going to trim a little as well.
Thx. I do like the wide bars, it was a change from the old style narrow. Too wide though for some of Long Island, which is mostly fast, tight and twisty wooded rides.
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Old 11-06-19, 07:06 PM
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Originally Posted by prj71
You can experience some real pucker factor here. Not a couple of trees on a flat trail.
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That's fantastic! What a bunch of Yupers! The accent (especially Danny's) reminds me of my childhood. Oh yah, hey.

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Old 11-10-19, 08:31 AM
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Holy Rollercam:

That's the way to do it!

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Old 11-10-19, 10:29 PM
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Originally Posted by Holy Rollercam
Yeah, making those crazy cuts to the trees is the way to needlessly make the trail “safe” for folks who struggle to ride a mountain bike.
I thought it was creative!
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