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[Closed] So you thought you could ride - and then you watched this.

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Meh. Utah desert. That's a different sort of skill and scale to what you ride. Sedona rocks? Yeah, very clever and all that, but at least you can feel ...

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Posted : 03/04/2022 9:44 am
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I don't know what makes you think I think I can ride.

I can pedal vaguely on a good day


 
Posted : 03/04/2022 9:53 am
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I fell off on a tow path yesterday.


 
Posted : 03/04/2022 10:05 am
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@pondo those spillways are pretty technical…


 
Posted : 03/04/2022 11:36 am
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How on earth does he get grip on those slimy rocks? I'd have been off on the first one.

Mind you there were a few clips of him pushing, which I could relate to.


 
Posted : 03/04/2022 11:50 am
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Some of the grip was from a bit of piste grooming before getting the shot. As it's Wharncliffe not such a big deal but not to be encouraged where rare mosses and lichens are present.
Looked very smooth


 
Posted : 03/04/2022 12:03 pm
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What tyre pressure for grip on cold damp smooth rock?
I slipped over just watching that


 
Posted : 03/04/2022 12:23 pm
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Is he on dual HR2s?

Everyone makes fun of me wearing that helmet around Glentress.


 
Posted : 03/04/2022 12:46 pm
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Superb riding. The way hw whipped/flicked/muscled the front wheel round some of those tight turns was quality. And as said above, finding grip where logic says grip was not there to he found..


 
Posted : 03/04/2022 9:53 pm
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Nice trail and riding too!


 
Posted : 03/04/2022 9:55 pm
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the older I get, the better I was.
(clearly was never that good thou)


 
Posted : 03/04/2022 10:48 pm
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Yeah. Me and my mate were up there on Friday, my first time at Wharncliffe. We were riding exactly like that.


 
Posted : 04/04/2022 10:15 am
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the older I get, the better I was.

As they say in climbing 'he can talk a good route'.


 
Posted : 04/04/2022 10:18 am
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Not many can rock the leggings tucked into white socks look either. Mad skillz


 
Posted : 04/04/2022 10:26 am
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Wow. Most of those rocks are for riding around, not over, far as i can see. Or maybe for sitting on when it's lunch? Nice riding!


 
Posted : 04/04/2022 10:52 am
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Semi-local, so I've ridden some of those trails, but not like that!

Grip isn't as bad as you think, as its gritstone so long as you keep off the green there's friction. - its more the soggy boggy bits between the rocks that catch you out and kill your momentum just as you need it.

Other bits of that. Nope.


 
Posted : 04/04/2022 11:00 am
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I mean, it's alright, but can he do the steps down to the canal at Furness Vale? Eh? Can he?


 
Posted : 04/04/2022 11:25 am
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I know where some of that is, and that's 'not' a trail. haha. mad skills


 
Posted : 05/04/2022 5:17 pm