New balls please
Kiblams
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I am in a serious need of a MTFU procedure to fix by broken balls.
At Cannock I have started loosing the nerve to tackle 'Werewolfs drop' on my last few trips :x but I had no issues before upgrading the rigid forks to Tora 318s
So, does anyone have any tips to force me to MTFU? It's presently the only bit of FtD/MT that I can't do.
At Cannock I have started loosing the nerve to tackle 'Werewolfs drop' on my last few trips :x but I had no issues before upgrading the rigid forks to Tora 318s
So, does anyone have any tips to force me to MTFU? It's presently the only bit of FtD/MT that I can't do.
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The drop is much easier now they have added more rocks to make it into a slope. Go do a few runs over Stile Cop and then you'll have bigger balls to do it!
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If you still can't do it, then the only way to sort it out is for one of your mates to slap you across the face at you and call you a little girl.0
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yeehaamcgee wrote:If you still can't do it, then the only way to sort it out is for one of your mates to slap you across the face with his penis and call you a little girl.0
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my advice is to give it a go and if you dont even try it nexxt time be fully aware that the punishment is to don some arab goggles, i'll supply them if you like?0
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eeeew.0
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yeehaamcgee wrote:eeeew.
fair one, offer still stands though.0 -
Kiblams wrote:but I had no issues before upgrading the rigid forks to Tora 318s
It makes a big difference going from rigid to bouncy bouncy. In theory it should make things easier. But there's a difference in technique when it comes to controlling the front end. A year in and I still feel like I'm getting used to the Toras having been riding some early rockshocks before: they bounced less than the Toras do in lockout.
Have a play about on them. Hop about. Learn how to lift the front end and predict the reaction. Perhaps your confidence will return once you get the feel?0 -
I love how trail centres give obstacles silly names.0
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Not just trail centres. Happens all over the place over here. We have Devil's kitchen, Rainbow Rock, Crib Goch, Castell y Gwynt, neverneverland, and so on.supersonic wrote:I love how trail centres give obstacles silly names.
They're all names given to places either by walkers, climbers or local folk.
It helps if you want to discuss "that bit" if it goes by a name.0 -
yeehaamcgee wrote:Crib Goch
I'd love to see someone ride that! (and survive)0 -
you have to love the werewolf drop
i completed it for the first time this week, i finally decided to man up and bomb it down it lucky it worked and i survived diamondback LS02
giant talon 2 -http://s867.photobucket.com/albums/ab236/handon_2010/?action=view¤t=Photo0069.jpg&newest=1
"Do not follow where the path may lead, Go instead where there is no path, and Leave a Trail."0 -
Nice one wish they sold courage tablets for big drops 0
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I didn't mean ride itMountainPete wrote:yeehaamcgee wrote:Crib Goch
I'd love to see someone ride that! (and survive)
I was just mentioning how places are given silly names anyway, outside of a trail centre.
(and I have considered trying to ride crib goch in my younger rather stupid days :oops: ) 0 -
Kiblams wrote:I am in a serious need of a MTFU procedure to fix by broken balls.
At Cannock I have started loosing the nerve to tackle 'Werewolfs drop' on my last few trips :x but I had no issues before upgrading the rigid forks to Tora 318s
So, does anyone have any tips to force me to MTFU? It's presently the only bit of FtD/MT that I can't do.
Get a mate who's slightly faster than you to wind you up about it for a couple days, then follow him down it, always works for me! Giant Reign - now sold :-(
Rockhopper Pro - XC and commuting
DH8 - New toy :-)0 -
bannedbiker wrote:Get a mate who's slightly faster than you to wind you up about it for a couple days, then follow him down it, always works for me!
That might just work, I will have to invite my brother down soon then.
It's just so frustrating as I have done it before a few times and now it just looks 5 times worse when I approach it :x0 -
+1 to thatThe drop is much easier now they have added more rocks to make it into a slope
werewolfs drop used to be much scarier when it was actually a drop, I've seen folks just
rolling it these days! It's the gap between the trees that always gets me rather than the drop itself.
MTFU!0 -
CycloRos wrote:
+1 to thatThe drop is much easier now they have added more rocks to make it into a slope
werewolfs drop used to be much scarier when it was actually a drop, I've seen folks just
rolling it these days! It's the gap between the trees that always gets me rather than the drop itself.
MTFU!
yep mega wide bars + tight trees = :shock:
to me it makes more sence to roll the wolf, because it goes straight into a corner and if you roll it as soon as it levels out you get the power down and rail the next berms, rather than picking grti out of your teeth 0 -
me and my riding bud Calvin were working on this the other day while seshing a really gnarly bomb hole... working our way around progrsively harder and harder roll ins. It takes some nerve i tell thee, and on the wrong day it can all go to pot.
to combat this we developed something called "go! go! go! technology" basicly if its something you know you can almost certainly ride, and are just woosing out every time, you roll up to it while shouting, either out loud, or just to yourself "GO!GO!GO!" and completely block everything off, and force yourself away from the brakes....
works wonders! iv now ridden all the run ins i said i would (just 1 month ago) never ride!I like bikes and stuff0 -
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Kiblams wrote:bannedbiker wrote:Get a mate who's slightly faster than you to wind you up about it for a couple days, then follow him down it, always works for me!
That might just work, I will have to invite my brother down soon then.
It's just so frustrating as I have done it before a few times and now it just looks 5 times worse when I approach it :x
Yeah, get on, do it!
I have a mate who used to be a $hite load faster than me, a bit of him calling me a big girl and then heading off down a DH has shown me that i can keep up with him...! you end up not seeing some of the scarier obsticals untill its too late to back out and you also want to be right on his back wheel as he gets to the end of the run and looks back to see how far ahead of you he is!Giant Reign - now sold :-(
Rockhopper Pro - XC and commuting
DH8 - New toy :-)0 -
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It's called alcohol.Silversladey wrote:Nice one wish they sold courage tablets for big drops0 -
Current steed is a '07 Carrera Banshee X
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Sorry to cast a clerical resurrection spell on this thread, but I though I would announce that I am just back from Cannock and my Balls have grown back.
That is all
P.S. I am chuffed0
