Pucker Up
11-01-19, 01:10 PM
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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.
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.
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.
1st thing when I got home from the ride was to make the bars 700.
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11-06-19, 05:06 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.
1st thing when I got home from the ride was to make the bars 700.
11-06-19, 06:41 PM
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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.
11-06-19, 07:06 PM
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No offense, if you're from the U.P. We love you guys, don't worry.
11-10-19, 08:31 AM
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Holy Rollercam:
That's the way to do it!
That's the way to do it!
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11-10-19, 10:29 PM
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