How to ride roots?

cooldad

Except you are going to lose most of your blood trying out the Gnarrlyyy Skillzz I just sent you.

HaydenJ

prawny wrote:

Mojo_666 wrote:

HaydenJ wrote:

Bleeding, resting, and crying like a girl at this point, must have tried this 10+ times and never nailed it!

They look dry, what was the problem?

They do a lot of that oop north, up at Kirri I was stumped by all the rock step ups like that. No chance to build up any momentum and cant pedal up it/no trials skillz.

I'll keep an eye out for that when I'm there next summer and if I make it I'll come on here and gloat :twisted:

Hahaha, good luck and I want video proof!

It's annoying because you can see the line that's been used before but the momentum gets you nowhere near. I'll be back next year to give it another go!

Kowalski675

Mojo_666 wrote:

HaydenJ wrote:

Bleeding, resting, and crying like a girl at this point, must have tried this 10+ times and never nailed it!

They look dry, what was the problem?

Unless the camera's exaggerating the gradient of the slope, I don't think I could pedal up that without the roots...

prawny

HaydenJ wrote:

prawny wrote:

Mojo_666 wrote:

HaydenJ wrote:

Bleeding, resting, and crying like a girl at this point, must have tried this 10+ times and never nailed it!

They look dry, what was the problem?

They do a lot of that oop north, up at Kirri I was stumped by all the rock step ups like that. No chance to build up any momentum and cant pedal up it/no trials skillz.

I'll keep an eye out for that when I'm there next summer and if I make it I'll come on here and gloat :twisted:

Hahaha, good luck and I want video proof!

It's annoying because you can see the line that's been used before but the momentum gets you nowhere near. I'll be back next year to give it another go!

It'll be on video success or fail. Looking at it, the best line looks borked from over use and/or rain. Quite looking forward to it now. Don't think I've got any chance mind.

rockmonkeysc

HaydenJ wrote:

Look past them and let your bike do the work, unless trying to ride up them ofcourse, this was me at Dalbeattie a few weeks ago,

Start left, then go right to the bottom of the roots. To get up the first bit is the hardest part but swearing should help.

welshkev

Pesky Jones wrote:

Wheres the fun? 9 times out of 10 Your're just going to end up coming off

have you ever ridden cwmcarn?

pesky_jones

welshkev wrote:

Pesky Jones wrote:

Wheres the fun? 9 times out of 10 Your're just going to end up coming off

have you ever ridden cwmcarn?

No - go on

welshkev

Pesky Jones wrote:

welshkev wrote:

Pesky Jones wrote:

Wheres the fun? 9 times out of 10 Your're just going to end up coming off

have you ever ridden cwmcarn?

No - go on

well you'd be pretty much pushing all the way to the top if you don't like riding up roots

pesky_jones

welshkev wrote:

Pesky Jones wrote:

welshkev wrote:

Pesky Jones wrote:

Wheres the fun? 9 times out of 10 Your're just going to end up coming off

have you ever ridden cwmcarn?

No - go on

well you'd be pretty much pushing all the way to the top if you don't like riding up roots

And the problem with that is... I dont care much for riding uphill in any ocasion. Guess Im not a true mountain biker or something

welshkev

Pesky Jones wrote:

welshkev wrote:

Pesky Jones wrote:

welshkev wrote:

Pesky Jones wrote:

Wheres the fun? 9 times out of 10 Your're just going to end up coming off

have you ever ridden cwmcarn?

No - go on

well you'd be pretty much pushing all the way to the top if you don't like riding up roots

And the problem with that is... I dont care much for riding uphill in any ocasion. Guess Im not a true mountain biker or something

me either, I ride up the fireroad, I fecking hate that climb

pesky_jones

welshkev wrote:

Pesky Jones wrote:

welshkev wrote:

Pesky Jones wrote:

welshkev wrote:

Pesky Jones wrote:

Wheres the fun? 9 times out of 10 Your're just going to end up coming off

have you ever ridden cwmcarn?

No - go on

well you'd be pretty much pushing all the way to the top if you don't like riding up roots

And the problem with that is... I dont care much for riding uphill in any ocasion. Guess Im not a true mountain biker or something

me either, I ride up the fireroad, I ******* hate that climb

I almsot always am gratefull for the pushup, it gives me a break Sometimes when I get to the bottom I'm literally shaking and cant imagine trying to carry on riding haha

lochussie

For riding up gnarly rocks and roots, I normally find it best to plow over stuff rather than try to makes lots of direction changes round stuff. Obviously this works better on a 160mm bike than a hardtail.

pesky_jones

lochussie wrote:

For riding up gnarly rocks and roots, I normally find it best to plow over stuff rather than try to makes lots of direction changes round stuff. Obviously this works better on a 160mm bike than a hardtail.

Think the police want to use those bikes. Apparently so they can chase criminals up stairs. I'd like to see one of those bikes climb stairs faster than a fleeing criminal.