The Northern Arizona Ride Finale
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- Опубликовано: 27 сен 2024
- This brings us to the end of an amazing day of riding with a few friends. We were being chased by thunder and lightning, and the clouds were getting dark. But all this just added to the awesomeness that was the day.
As the day went on, I started getting into a flow and really enjoying the bike. But I got hit with some hardcore cramping in my hands and arms, which added another challenge. Less coffee and more bananas for me in the morning.
I can almost smell the two stroke. Thank you for the content.
Thank YOU for the comment! I enjoy making the videos, so I'm glad to see people enjoy watching them.
In this terrain, I think my four stroke 500 would have beat me up. Two stroke heaven here
When you get tired riding, nothing is easy. It's a fine line between trying to relax and be smooth and saying the hell with it and just grunting through energy zapping mistake after mistake. Regardless, it's all fun and part of the adventure. Looks like it was an awesome ride through great terrain with good buds. Hard to beat :)
Absolutely. Once you reach a certain fatigue level, it's really hard to get back into a groove. Oddly, I wasn't too worn out. I just started cramping really badly, despite taking in fluids and gels. I think my crappy form from time off the bike is what caused it. Haha
This really was a great day.
I love sandy single track
Especially right after a rain! I kept tucking the front end, but eventually figured out that it needs to be ridden more like traditional sand 😄
Looks like a great trail! Sick bike Dude! 💪🏼
This was one of my favorite rides of last season!! Great terrain, great views, great conditions. And thanks about the bike. Beta has really won me over with their newer generation of bikes. I'd love to get some time on a 23 with the KYB front and rear, though.
Thanks for watching and commenting!
Nice technical track. Well done.
Thanks!!! I wish this was what I could ride all the time. It's crazy how much effort it takes to do this, compared to riding desert
Dude this trails looked awesome!
This day really did just get better and better. The weekly rain definitely makes the traction ridiculous too.
Now that looks like a never ending E ticket ride! I had the same thing happen to my hand on my ride yesterday, not a lot of fun when that happens.
This video could have been 4 hours long with all the good trail footage I had. And perfect timing, right after the rain and still cloudy.
It's such a bummer when you're not really fatigued, but parts your hands and arms start locking up.
"Going in felt really good, but after I was done, coming out, it was really sloppy.' Brent 2022 Hahahaha!
You saw where that comment was going too, apparently 😄
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Thanks PJ!
Nice ride!
Thanks! I hope to get back soon before the conditions change.
impressive no dabs section!
Hey thanks! Clearly, I was pretty excited about it when it happened. I wish I had more areas like that to practice in.
Awesome video as always brother!
Thanks bro! I gotta call you soon to catch up.
@@americandirtrider7662 yessir!
Nice video! is this near camp wood?
Yeah I think it's basically northeast of Camp Wood. Are you out that way?
@@americandirtrider7662 I’m in Phoenix but have ridden there a long time ago, it looks familiar. As it starts getting hotter down here we’ll be riding up north more during the summer. Like your videos! Good job 👍🏻
@@bartman376 Yeah it seems like it stays nice throughout the summer up there, due to the monsoon season they get. My dad rides all year round since he moved to AZ years ago. I can't wait to move out that way eventually.
Thanks dude!! I appreciate that. I need to get more videos up, but free time has been a commodity recently.
TIRE PRESSURES AND SUSPENSIONS SETTINGS?
ASKING FOR A FRIEND…
Hah! I admittedly had the front tire pressure a bit too high in this ride, maybe 12 or 13. We run tubliss, so I wouldn't have had an issue going down to 10 or less in the front to get a little less push.
As for settings: The bike in this video is actually my dad's bike. He had his suspension done by The Ride Shop in Pheonix AZ, so I can't exactly say what the settings are. I do know he's running his fork springs one rate softer than stock and the stock shock spring, which is now what Beta is coming with in the 2023s and 2024s. But valving is completely different than the stock stuff. He likes his bike really soft compared to mine.
@@americandirtrider7662 Ok gotcha. When you say really soft compared to yours what does that translate to, do you feel it can be too soft for this type of riding? Is yours more stiff Just do to a diff type of terrain than this?
Thnx for the response
@@85ZERO17 I really liked his bike for this type of riding. My bike has more hold up in the stroke for hard edge hits at speed and for whoop sections in the desert. The ride in this video was mostly 1st through 3rd gear, and there were no whoops or hard fast hits. Where I usually ride in California is faster paced and harder packed, so I like my bike for my area.
His bike settles nicely in corners, and seemed to keep better traction in flat track turns. Also his is easier to pivot turn, and feels a little more planted on chattery roads. My bike feels a little more vague in corners, but doesn't deflect on hard fast hits. My bike seems to stay very straight through rock sections. Best way I can put it is this.... When hitting an exposed root at lower speeds, his bike will roll over it and follow the ground better. But you add speed and his bike will kick or deflect because it's going through the stroke further. My bike will hit that root at slow speed and will pop you up off the ground like hitting a jump. Hitting that same root fast with my bike won't kick the bike left or right. So my bike is a bit less comfortable, but I feel like it's more forgiving if you hit something faster than you probably should have.
Man that is a really good explanation, very comprehensive.
I appreciate you taking the time to unpack it like that. I suppose that is the crux then a…..can’t ah e it all?
As a novice and particularly green to tuning suspension…even at an entry level. I just seem intimidating to start playing settings with a baseline method or ratio pertaining to one seething affect on another…their relation to on another.
Seems that it could be pretty simple for a guy to set himself Back Just as easily as advancing if the goal is to not leave anything on the table in terms of balance of comfort/ forgiveness and performance, or maybe the 1st 2 result in the latter?
Shiiiiiit who knows!
@@85ZERO17 The guy who invented racetech always said the best you've ridden is the best you know. I feel I've learned this the hard way multiple times, thinking my bike was perfect. Then I jump on someone else's bike and realized my bike is not 100% of what I want. Maybe a little softer here, or more support there. So it's worth finding a section of trail you really like, and go over it again and again with changes to the suspension. As for how to tune suspension, that's a whole world to go into. And there are some smarter people than me that have a way of doing it from step one to finish. Like what to adjust first, and how one affects the other. It's fun stuff after you get over the initial overwhelming feeling.