Registered: Nov 2001
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yep, some were spotted flinging themselves through the air yesterday, and there even some evil monkeys in the herd. yep, john p, hoowah and their buddy reg joined us for a ride w/ fellow s ocron, couching tiger, and a smattering of our friends.

you might have seen different shots of this already:



cool bike, but not really the ideal build for traipsing about in the woods, eh hoowah?

for those of you who know the trails in milford (aka vietnam), there are always good rock drops to find. and sometimes you find new ones. here are jason and ian pulling the trigger on a nice-sized drop that we just found yesterday. note that reg is standing under the rock in ian's pic:



jason's turn:



here's ian out on the powerline section, finding a nice one:



i finally tried that one after watching a friend do it this summer, and couching tiger had his bullit's 8" risse soak it up appropriately as well, and it made a neat pinging noise too

stay tuned for part 2

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the original post had too many pics for the RM board, so i cut it in two pieces. here is the exciting conclusion:

nam is not all rocks, there are some architects at work too. here's jason, riding a freakin' hairy ladder:



it may not look too nasty via CRT, but it's really skinny and probably about 9-10' up at the high point.

there is a nice drop just to the left of it, and here is reg showing us how it's done:



btw, the foes is a sweet rig. even i could pull a ~5 second manual on the thing, and that's saying something.

here is reg on the spine line, another fun powerline place to play (thanks to Ocron for showing me this one, hadn't seen it before). he did a sweet manual off the rock, and manualed on the landing too. nice!



here's one more, the rock which earlier claimed Ocron's swingarm and shoulder. you can't really tell from this photo, but it's got a semi-crappy run in, and you really need to be precise w/ where you land the bike. and it's a good 6-7' drop on top of that. well done.



at this point we ran into a few other riders (including dane, who was going off w/ his K2 hardtail, including one really big drop which no one else even considered), and it was funny seeing one guy go off the pictured drop w/ his TMX, and then ian followed w/ his FSR. the amount of punishment he dealt that frame and suspension (air rear shock, flexy little 4" singlecrown manitou fork) was unreal; jason was running a 5" z1. they made all us dual crown guys look pretty weak

anyway, we made our way to the other side, and hit some more cool sections and drops. i finally did a section heretofore known as the "chick drop", because there was a pic from pinkbike (see below) showing some woman named molly dropping it, when no one i regularly ride w/ had the sack to launch it yet. i brightened the pic so you can see it a bit clearer.



jason recorded some cool vid footage of the shenanigans, but i am not sure of his bandwidth so i can't give out the URL yet. but i'll check to see if he's cool w/ that and give ya the goods.

that's about it. a good ride all-around. we'll have to get a monkey convention @ lynn woods when it opens up.

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Registered: Jan 2002
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sweet pics. Wish i lived around there. damn FL has only a few good trails... oh well, atleast we ride all year long in great weather

Post up those Vid links! cant wait to see!!!!!

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Niiiiice! Looks like a good time was had by all. It's been a while since a ride report wasn't accompanied with an injury report as well. Good to see.
Can't wait for that next shipment of rocks to arrive.

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Sweet pics Narlus

I can't wait, 4 more days till spring break then I can finally finish fixing my rig which has been secluded in the darkness of my basement . I'm definately going to try to hit Nam as much as I can. Have to love that place!

BTW, what is the parking situation at Vietnam? Is it still OK to park at the business parks?

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shweetness man! sorry I missed it, looks like there were enough people there to keep the pace down to something I can handle where's the pics of the Imperial in flight??

the new bullit cries out for the dirt....it's time approaches....it can not be denied much longer....


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nam looks awesome,, i wanna check it out sometime this yr,, u guys should come down to trumbull,, u would have fun there...

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Hey cool stuff narlus!!!! these pics are giveing me the riding bug!!!!

Can't wait for this summer! I'm planning on a little US tour like Sunday River and Plattekill... I hope we'll have a chance to ride together!

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Originally posted by narlus
the original post had too many pics for the RM board, so i cut it in two pieces. here is the exciting conclusion:

nam is not all rocks, there are some architects at work too. here's jason, riding a freakin' hairy ladder:


that's about it. a good ride all-around. we'll have to get a monkey convention @ lynn woods when it opens up.

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Excellent ride yesterday! Man I've gotta lay off the beer and donuts The Risse handled the drop fine, the shuttle just slammed forward which generates a sound almost exactly the same as that of a Kooka crank arm splitting in half lengthwise. Ugh, nasty.

I doctored the shuttle with a small rubber "bumper" placed inside the front of the shuttle between the shuttle and the shuttle bolt. It takes up the ~1/4" and should compress and settle in at maybe ~1/8" on a really big hit, leaving the shuttle out a bit and still not maxed out in the low position.

The ride just reiterated that it isn't the bike, at all, that makes the difference.

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didn't pull any of the larger drops.

that evil is definately not the build for pedaling the trails, especially when your 6'3" and realize that some boston buggah cut the seat post down a lot.

shoulda checked that before i left i guess.

the imperial feels tight, and corners great, but not going uphill with a shiver. felt nice on the descents and the smaller drops, and some of the smaller jumps in the trails.

anyhow,
met a bunch of cool people, had a great time and looking foreward to the next meeting.

shuttle mount A anyone?
T

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i wanna ride there!

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quote:

Originally posted by a13x
i wanna ride there!

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quote:

Originally posted by DHJUNKIE
nam looks awesome,, i wanna check it out sometime this yr,, u guys should come down to trumbull,, u would have fun there...

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hey... question: where did you guys park? i heard they were gonna tow if people parked on the street, or if they saw people unload bikes out of cars at the lot next door....

I want to ride there SOOOO bad... A13x, if any of you guys want to go down one of these weekends before break i can get my truck to take bikes and you can use your car to take people.... or something...

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quote:

Originally posted by Ocron


I got down to Trumbull a couple times last year and you're right, it was a lot of fun. I'm def