David started mountain biking in the 90’s, by which he means “Ineptly jumping a Saracen Kili Racer off anything available in a nearby industrial estate”. After growing up and living in some extremely flat places, David moved to Yorkshire specifically for the mountain biking. This felt like a horrible mistake at first, because the hills are so steep, but you get used to them pretty quickly.
Previously, David trifled with road and BMX, but mountain bikes always won. He’s most at peace battering down a rough trail, quietly fixing everything that does to a bike, or trying to figure out if that one click of compression damping has made things marginally better or worse. The inept jumping continues to this day.
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Been following them a while – they’ve earned it!
Still, you’d think they might whack some stabilisers on it while they learn the balance! 😉
Some big outriggers would have helped, yes…
A brief perusal of the footage indicates that they would have had fewer problems if they had fitted wider bars (760mm minimum, ideally carbon), gone for a longer effective tt/shorter stem combo and opted for 650b+ tyres. Simple really
Joking aside it does actually look like wider bars would have helped with the steering & stability even if it might have affected the aerodynamics slightly.
Didn’t realise there was a runway in Shoreditch