Sessioning "Your Mom"

Met up with Henning the other day, the plan was to do an all day ride of various stuff and trails. Then we hit "your mom" and couldn't leave the short trail section. In fact we sessioned it for 4 hours! And fun it was : ) Total riding time for this day was around the 6 hours mark, great weather, great company, its aaalll good. We shot some pics as well.

Henning giving "The One" a go.

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About to land the table

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Discussing technique. We actually forgot all about the cam, as it recorded. Watching all the big hand gestures made us laugh : ) 

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Nuff talking..

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6 clicks of slow

Anyone who's been on any of my bikes, know that I like my frontal rebound fast. It works great on the trails I primarily ride (smooth + flow), and the fast rebound makes the bike more playful. 

So this other day we where dicking around a rockgarden on a trail I usually don't ride, when one of my riding buddies questioned my fast rebound, and opted for a slower rebound setting for the rockgarden to keep the tire more glued to the ground. I though, well why not give it a go. We set up my high speed camera, and began testing, this is what we found:

"Normal" rebound setting, rockgarden test. 240 fps:

6 clicks slower rebound setting, rockgarden test. 240 fps:

Conclusion;

Well, from what I observe, the slower rebound doesn't make me any faster on this 15m rockgarden section. It does however look like its stabilizing me a bit more, and that's good. I need to do some more testing, and iron out some of the variants out of the equation. I want to test this as accurate and objective as possible - for the fun of it - perhaps I could use some of this data to setup my Boxxer fork a bit better. Stay tuned.

Do you spot or see something I don't? Got some Yoda knowledge to share? Then drop a comment in the comments section below - it does not require a log-in.

3 days of spring riding - Day 3

Day 3.

Thomas joining up for this sunny day. Always in a good mood, and just a joy to session with. Here you see him on a Speccy Enduro with a coil in the back.

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Air sprung bikes can fly as well ; )

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Janus on the booster drop.

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"Your Mom" rip

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A well deserved post-ride beer. I have to admit I was getting a bit tired mentally, its been my fifth day of riding in a row. Still, its a privilege.

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3 days of spring riding - Day 2

Day 2 opened up for some trail rip. Nice to loosen up a bit, and play around with gravity. Allthough there was quite a bit of sessioning, there was indeed alot of pedal mashing as well. Good balance between the two.

Grabbing some air on "Your mom".
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Janus dicking around some technical stuff, It took some tries with this particular section, but he finally nailed it.

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Christían joining in on the fun.
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We have been trying to get a good pic of this drop for ages. It isnt big, 1.5m at best I guess, but its good fun, great transition too.

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Another angle, Janus spinning it.

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3 days of spring riding - Day 1

A mtb buddy of mine dropped by for a few days of rockin', it resulted in more than 15 hours of effective trail time during the 3 days he was here. It was good fun as well. Day 1 was all about trail and xc - while im not particular passionate about that kind of riding, I still enjoy it from time to time. Think the guys had a good time as well, weather was a w e s o m e .

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Janus improvising on his Specialized Stumpjumper FSR.

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Christian joined up, and taught us how to do stuff.

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Harz mountains - panorama shots

Panorama pics. Mostly of the spots are mentioned in the post below.

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Best climb of the day ; )

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