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so I've been riding my EX9 all over the UK & will continue to.
But I'm getting more confident & more progressive, dropping bigger drops & landing heavier hits.
6-8ft drops are the biggest so far, but I'm looking at the 2 ladders drops at chicky & thinking it's about time.
The question: is the trek EX9 130mm XC frame tough enough or is it time to buy something more beafy?
Prolly not. It can take more than you'd think but it's not THAT tough.
Pitch might be a good option.
I could be wrong but I thought AM 'core came next rather than freeride-lite?
I'm sure others will be along shortly to confirm
Ride it until it breaks. Then buy something tougher.
I could be wrong but I thought AM 'core came next rather than freeride-lite?
I'm sure others will be along shortly to confirm
Think it goes:-
AM: Mince light > Full Mince > Light Core > Half Core > Full Core > Hard Core > Aggressive Hard Core > Really Aggressive Hard Core > Gnnnrrr
Then you move onto Freeride etc.
Doing lots of it then stronger frame + kit required
zangolin, you missed out FreeMinceCoreLiteX-Treeeeeeem
XXXC goes in there somewhere as well.
And jheycorefreemince 
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zangolin, you missed out FreeMinceCoreLiteX-Treeeeeeem
It's all bolloxxx really.
Should be:
Hardtail
Small bounce
Medium bounce
Big bounce
6-8ft so far and am looking at chicky drops?????? they are the same size prety much.
ride what ya got 🙂
My mate has done the smaller wooden chick drop on his 140 spicey
the log drop at chicky in it's old guise has been ridden on a CX bike......
mike, dropped? or rolled
dropped, it was at the women's skills day, when kona had a demo stand there
sure it was one of Tim's mates, the tyre exploded about 2 min after he rode it, sounded like a gun going off
to be fair though it was before a certain person ruined the drop....it used to be smoooooooooooth
have they made the chiksands 2 ladder drops bigger then? smaller one was finer on a hardtail last time i went, but that was last year. i'd ride that but not 8fters..
Yeah, by my reckoning the bigger ladder at chicky is about 7ft. It's the biggest I've done, but do-able on a hardtail. What you need out of your bike is confidence. If your bike doesn't give you confidence, then go see someone like jedi before spending loads on gnarly bike parts.
FWIW, I ride a hardtail with slack angles (so it won't go twitchy on landing) and DH wheels (so I don't fret about them collapsing on landing). Those drops at Chicky are super-smooth so you don't need any fancy kit.
not been for ages but little ladder is 3-4ft if you plop it and up to about 8 if you hoon
big ladder is max of about 12 if you land it flat
i reckon me and glen used tro go way bigger tahn 12ft we we landed flat 🙂
big ladder is max of about 12 if you land it flat
Aouch
i reckon me and glen used tro go way bigger tahn 12ft we we landed flat
it was probably a bit more than 12 after norco jim made one of his trade mark 8.6 on the richter scale landings, probably pushed a bit of the landing australia's way
how do you guys measure a drop then?
from edge to landing or edge to base of edge?
& should drops always be measured imperial, or does metric have it's place only in engineering?
How big is this?
imperial, as smaller units (feet vs metres) means higher numbers means it sounds bigger. 😆
and I always measure drops as the height of the feature (lip to bottom), as I assumed you were describing the feature itself not how far a bike drops before it lands on the downward landing slope. Happy to be told I'm wrong though (as measuring to landing means bigger drops).