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    Horsethief drop in @ Fruita is a rough ride nowadays

    Clip of a guy making the washed out Horsethief dropin look easy and a bike review video

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    Nice work.

    I used to ride that in flip flops

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    Is that 'the thing' now?

    Wearing your little painter's cap under a road helmet so you get a visor?
    Besides the comet that killed the dinosaurs nothing has destroyed a species faster than entitled white people.-ajp

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    That's nothing = here's a clip of me eating shit on it

    [ame="http://www.vimeo.com/7138674"]Mary's Loop and eating it on Horsethief Bench on Vimeo[/ame]

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    Hell, heres a tutorial on riding it:

    http://www.superhumanmag.com/content/view/1674/48/

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    WTF are all those people standing around on the side? Is it normally like that? If so, that's a junk show of epic proportions.
    "I knew in an instant that the three dollars I had spent on wine would not go to waste."

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    Quote Originally Posted by Arty50 View Post
    WTF are all those people standing around on the side? Is it normally like that? If so, that's a junk show of epic proportions.
    on weekends there's always a peanut gallery. That dude rode that so smooth, holy shit

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    One other element that they don't mention in that clip is the lack of traction due to the sandstone dust that accumulates in there. Makes those few turn moves at the bottom all that much more challenging...
    It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Arty50 View Post
    WTF are all those people standing around on the side? Is it normally like that? If so, that's a junk show of epic proportions.
    a lot of people seem to think riding in huge groups with lots of stop-and-gape is the best way to ride. I don't get it myself.

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    For the record: That was some sort of Trek product showcase/demo/multi-day event thingy....normal busy weekends aren't necessarily that bad.

    Actually yes, yes they are. It is always a complete shitshow, 24/7/365....trails clogged up with Front Range, Lycra sporting, cap under the helmet, carb counting weenies....nobody is having any fun, ever, just showing up to be part of the scene. Sometimes I can't hear myself think because of all the beeping HR moniters.

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    Quote Originally Posted by uncle crud View Post
    a lot of people seem to think riding in huge groups with lots of stop-and-gape is the best way to ride. I don't get it myself.
    That is because you are an elitist, self-indulgant prick and nobody wants to ride with you
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    I don't think I've ever seen mental illness so faithfully rendered in html.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Rontele View Post
    That is because you are an elitist, self-indulgant prick and nobody wants to ride with you
    that's true -- but maybe it's not relevant to whether it's any fun to "ride" with a group whose sole purpose in "riding" is to stand around while one or two people "session" a trail feature that most of us can ride in our sleep.

    "dooooood I was SOOOOOOO there when Monkeyfucker rode that drop on Pantsshitter"

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    Hells yeah!

    "that's true -- but maybe it's not relevant to whether it's any fun to "ride" with a group whose sole purpose in "riding" is to stand around while one or two people "session" a trail feature that most of us can ride in our sleep."-Crudley

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    peep crud's emokid body.

    go make me a latte.
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    I don't think I've ever seen mental illness so faithfully rendered in html.

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    I just like that the new Trek uses "full floater" technology "in the rear".


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    Quote Originally Posted by Aquaholic View Post
    Hells yeah!

    "that's true -- but maybe it's not relevant to whether it's any fun to "ride" with a group whose sole purpose in "riding" is to stand around while one or two people "session" a trail feature that most of us can ride in our sleep."-Crudley
    proof that I can eat shit and rake open my forearm IN MY SLEEP doooooood!

    Quote Originally Posted by Rontele View Post
    peep crud's emokid body.

    go make me a latte.
    what? you want a ladder? here you go:


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    Quote Originally Posted by Bootros View Post
    Hell, heres a tutorial on riding it:

    http://www.superhumanmag.com/content/view/1674/48/

    ha! the single speed "world champion" totally flubbed it!

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    For what its worth...

    1) Ross is a SICK rider. Him "flubbing" it and being hesitant should tell you something...
    2) It's harder than it looks.* (as always)





    *That's what he said

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    To quote our great leader, being singlespeed 'world champion' is sort of like winning the 'special olympics'.

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    How about winning Downieville? Does that count for something?

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    Well, at least he didn't walk down it like the horde of the spandex clad douches at the end of the video. Thats saying something right there.

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    holy shit the day i walk down a trail is the day i quit riding....

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    Lots of hate going on for the gapers. Nevermind that they might be done with the loop and are heading back up the drop-in shelf, since the loop is a lollipop, and are just staying out of the way so that the people on top can ride down.

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    Quote Originally Posted by LittleYellowFriend View Post
    To quote our great leader, being singlespeed 'world champion' is sort of like winning the 'special olympics'.
    Ross Schnell is better than you
    It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.

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    His "race resume" doesn't really even begin to tell the story of how good that dude is.

    He can hold Nico's pace in an enduro DH and still turn around and win the SSWC. He's a modern day Johnny T. (yeah, I said it...)

    There are VERY few (if any) riders that are as well rounded as Ross. And he's a good guy to too!!!

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