Video: Simon Lawton - Tiger Style

 +1 Simon knows his stuff. If you're prepared to spend serious $$ in a bike then getting him to give you and a couple of friends a lesson to help improve your riding makes sense.

 A dollar towards professional instruction equates to faster/better riding than a dollar towards bike equipment. Simon is great at pointing out and fixing flaws in your riding style that you would never have thought of in X amount of rides.

 The serious bike $$ argument kinda pissed me off. But he is probably a great coach. Does it matter what your bike costs? If you need coaching, you need good coaching no matter what level of rider you are or what your bike is worth.

 Winter in the PNW. Wet, dark, chilly, great trails... but as I type, it is in the teens and glorious outside. Must go ride!

 Funny I think this was the first time I've seen a vid where the forest looked really spooky. Oooh gave me the willies.

 lucky! its -30 with wind chill right now in calgary

 0 Celcius and sunny today on the shore. Lunch-time ride with the boys at Rocky... just bragging like a jerk.

 ya thats sick man!

 I thought the exact same thing. TIIIIIGGAA STYYYYLE!!!!!!

 Lol I only clicked on it because I thought there would be some WU

 Named in memory of our lord and savior ODB

 C.R.E.A.M.!!

 @jasper shimmy shimmy yaw shimmy ya shimmy yay

 I'm a little "jelly" to hear about your terrific tuna fish sandwich after scarfing down another mediocre pb&j

 haha they fogged up before we even got one shot, had to take em off

 Tiger Mountain, Issaquah Washington. It's a decent trail to ride a few time but doesn't have a ton of variety, also it's a fire road climb only which kinda sucks

 mnorton, check out this link for more details:
trails.evergreenmtb.org/wiki/Trail:Tiger_Mountain

 That's the new Summit Trail, probably one of the most fun trails near Seattle if you like the fast and flowy stuff. Also the only one where downhill bikes have the right of way.

 It's actually enduro specific.

 I would guess that rise preference varies from person to person and from bike to bike. AM bikes definitely have wide bars these days.

 I like the lower rise myself, but at a certain point I found that bars were getting too wide for me personally. More control for the aggressive stuff, but not so much fun being that stretched out on longer rides.