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and how did it feel ?
We have a cliff drop at haldon (nr Exeter) and when I look down my brain just says no way!
The 'drop' rolling into the (now closed) north shore section??
Just do it - it's not that steep!
As for the steepest - can't get much more that vertical i suppose...
DrP
There is a nice 20fter vertical drop hidden at Inners.
Bit general here. Ive ridden down a gradient of infinity. I think most people have. But because its only for a meter or so, it doesnt really feel like it.
This looks pretty steep, and long.
I prefer to jump off cliffs, rather than ride down them ... http://video.mpora.com/watch/laz0SSlb8/
I'm the first guy in the red helmet 🙂 25ft ish 🙂
There is a nice 20fter vertical drop hidden at Inners.
Is that the one that comes onto fireroad?
No. That one is also interesting though
I'm the first guy in the red helmet
Respect! Wish I had the balls to do that.
I don't think I've ever gone down one steeper than the one onto the fireroad at Innerleithen.
There is a nice 20fter vertical drop hidden at Inners. i take it by the hidden part meant it was an accident like mine at gt when we went of piste and fell 10ft although i did catch my bike when i landed 😐
i did go down the the dh at fortbill a couple of year ago on a 6" trail bike the resemblance of a koala bear hugging a tree springs to mind
I would never ride any of them, but they are there and have tyre marks on them. There is also a huge one in Elibank that folk have ridden.
Jumping a drop is arguably easier than riding it.
I've seen a mate ride down the side of a local quarry.
The tyre tracks looked like they went steep, vertical, disappeard(past vertical)vertical, steep, transition.
He wasn't keen to try it again.
ridden into the local dissused quarry, that was fkkin scary!
Do quaters at skateparks count? They'r vertical by definition.
Watched a mate ride down a extremely steep side of Norton Covert (for those that know it it was on the side that the houses back onto toward the graveyard end)
On the ground, we used to ride the quarry at Stone Edge in Chesterfield back in t' day on full rigids. Always sticks in my mind as the diciest steep stuff I've done because it was very steep and rough and if you binned it you'd not be able to stop yourself scraping down to the bottom.
Biggest drop was in Whistler, guess around 15ft, halfway down A-line off a big boulder.
Abigale at a local quarry
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There is a section of a trail at Whistler called "the Manager" (think it is off Original Sin, or maybe Duffman) that is literally a vertical cliff that you ride down (probably about 15ft high), with a wooden transition at the bottom that then spits you, at high speed, onto another ladder bridge at right angles - nuts. I haven't ridden it but I saw someone who did - wow.
i am leaening to ride vert at corby.riding in a vert ramp is pretty easy.
more can go wrong doing drops imo.
i do prefer launching drops too obviously 🙂
lo at how close the tranny was in that vid 🙂 🙂
Big thread on the same topic with some crazy pics on it here
http://forums.mtbr.com/showthread.php?p=1789855
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Nutter 😀
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looking closer at that pic i can't believe how close my C.O.G must have been to passing the front axle
1st day of the holiday as well
they took the video down off youtube due to music copyright but safe to say the run out wasn't particularly neatly done
as long as the run in and run out is clear i reckon i would ride anything :s
ive got a "super rad" picture of me riding down a retaining wall on my front wheel, its "rad to the maxx" (but its on facebook so i cant get it while im at work)
michaelwright is that you? that's nuts mate!
there's a quarry nearby that we sometimes go playing in - have spotted a vert section with a tranny at the bottom (about 15ft). needs to be cut away a little as there's a bit of an overhang towards the end but it can and will be conquered!!
I see you're not wearing the wifebeater in that photo in case your lily-white arms gets scratched and you can't wear your halterneck to the disco.
yup that's me, not the silliest thing i did on that holiday either. i got so RAD that i scared myself back to road riding for a few months. big bike hasn't been out since that holiday (a year)
Mr A - got to have the right tan for the whistler bars
bushpiloting pictures generally scare me. 1/2 the stuff looks like it should end in casualty.
that's a lot less scary than some of the stuff on La Varda (SP) Rich
great, more stuff that I couldn't even walk down 😉 do you go riding with ropes?
Whistler has LOTS of properly steep rock rolls. That said the rock is really grippy, so you can maintain quite a lot of control down them
Filthy Ape is pretty intimidating
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that's a lot less scary than some of the stuff on La Varda (SP) Rich
La Varda? as in Les Arcs? What a f'kin awesome trail that is. Solid balls out technicality. Loved it. Only a couple of dabs. 😀
me too, did it the first day as we were so awesome then on the last day of the second week which was a great gauge of progression. man that place rocks.
someone lend me a grand so i can go back 🙁
someone lend me a grand so i can go back
Sorry mate - I'm fresh out of cash. Spent it all on a holiday somewhere... 😉
Doing it first day must have been interesting. Nothing like a gentl warm up. Maybe Ash was just trying to get rid of you over the cliff. (although I guess we did it on our second day). I guess that means you've not done Poundstretcher then? Over the othe side in the woods. Completely different, but equally mental - like a techical vesion of Doubleheader...
yeah think so, comes out at the track below the goat shed?
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Errr... Photoshop?
unless trees grow at an angle yes, but still dam steep.
New spirit level for Ourkidsam! 😉
isn't that Elbry?
yeah think so, comes out at the track below the goat shed?
Nope - starts at Arc 1800 and ends up in Bourg - Ash only found it last year. Takes in a bit of double header on the way. Rooty, rocky, narrow, exposed, wet and with the most insane boulder field in the middle.
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it doesnt look steep from above
limekiln quarry in cambridge
one for next time the JonE
This is the steepest I have ridden. It's a bit of a funny one because it's almost over as soon as you go over the edge as it is only a bike length. I wouldn't like to do anything much longer without a huge runout.
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