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I dont particularly like drops to flat, they can hurt. So I would think twice about 4ft to flat. Would depend on speed too, the faster the better generally.
Recently been liking my doubles, more so since clearing the river gap at Chatel a couple of times. I would say thats about 25ft [img] 
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After that I was hitting all the gaps I could find in Winterfold/Pitch inc. Fly Tipper (15-20ft)
This is on my FS. Its a skills compensator. I wouldnt attempt that distance on my HT, but would try 6ft. I really seem to go offline on my HT and land wonky.
40yo with 1 kid BTW 😀
Seen a few vids of that Chatel gap. Looks really nice. Fair play man.
Here's a wee multi jump i built you might like. Big fun!
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43 with two and casing jumps like a bastid 😀
40 with two kids here
Love a bit of air and riding more drops and jumps than ever
Went to Chatel and didn't do the river gap though; it worried me seeing it from the chair lift and the amount of riders braking last minute on the run in
Good work superfli did you check out the drop on Air Voltage? Ridiculous
thanks all, some great advice... let the journey to big air and potentially big pain begin!
The stream gap in Chatel is a bit like the the Flytipper one, in that it's flat as a pancake, so it doesn't require anything other than speed to get over it.
Once you get your head round the mental aspect, it's fine, you can overshoot that by almost double the distance and get away with it 🙂
In terms of gaps on trails, i'll hit most stuff, a lot of the guys I ride with are happy to hit doubles and gaps blind, but that's where I draw the line, if I can't see the lander, I have to check it out.
Drops to flat arn't fun at all. I thought those days had gone!
This is my mate Ste, on his own DIY frame. (I think he was the only hardtail at this race to hit the drop, but I may be wrong)
http://www.pinkbike.com/photo/10064972/
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yes, no, maybe
spent a good few sessions earlier this year hammering the lower jump section on GBU at FoD, to get some confidence in the air, built up to clearing the road gap - great fun
since then, I have ridden almost zero trails with features like that (house move, new job, zero free time :(, only been riding with some new work buddies on natural trails) - so any mojo I accumulated has now vanished and the big bike has hardly been out of the shed, sob.
BTW, kudos to the skills on display in the photos here
I went to woburn and bottled the BIG double the 30ft+ one
This one has escaped me for so long 🙁 I've done the smaller ones next to it which are about the same length, maybe even a bit longer, but the gap looks so much bigger and scarier on the big 30 footer haha. Assuming you're on about the double that's over near the bottom of DT line and skyline that is..
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thanks all, some great advice... let the journey to big air and potentially big pain begin!
I think the your best bet would be to find (or build) a nice little table top (like those in the Glentress freeride park for example) with a good run in and run out.
And then just practice jumping it again and again.
Once you've mastered the technique that dean referred to, you'll be away. That's the key. For example, here's a pic of someone at hamsterley who probably hasn't mastered the technique, and although they probably cleared the jump (due to their speed), they've got no where near the height they could have got.
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