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Awesome!

Gwin never goes all out in practice. It's pointless to take the risk where you've got at least two runs you've got to fully commit to coming up.

I was thinking the same thing. It may be because of bike advocacy I've been involved in around here or the sheer fragility of our trails but it really gets me when some schmo throws some off trail steeze and ruins the trail for the rest.

thumbs up!

It's Levy's opinion. He's probably still buzzing from the SRAM experience in Sedona.

Levy needs to lay off the SRAM koolaid. Just because Pinon doesn't wine and dine the guy doesn't mean they're not viable. If anything, the "evolution" of the derailleur is reducing reliability and life of parts; when we've gone from 8 to 9 speed the chain failure went up dramatically, when we've gone up to 10sp, we ticked up failure even more. Now we're on 11sp and we've regained some of the 10sp fragility by modifying the front ring and eliminating the ability to shift into other front rings. Furthermore, these dinner plate sized cogs are pushing weight to the rear axle, pushing the weight bias further to the rear. The cost of these systems is astronomical, wear items add up to over $500 (between just the chain and cassette, without calculating front chainring). Progress? I'd call is stunting. The derailleur is stunted.

It's just past the drop area, where the big step up and a handful of big drops are. It's often called the false summit, before you start descending toward the power lines and the beginning of Jackson's. The lower and upper section of Ahab are now open. I presume if you're mentally prepared to just ride Ahab and know that it's a ton of uphill grind, you'll like it much more then when you expect a double black diamond downhill with delicious tech and drops.

Very Nice!

Not saying otherwise and I opted to check out some other rides this time around, nevertheless, I haven't been too impressed by the TrailMix efforts. They stack the rocks really well but overall trail design isn't all that great. I rode Pipe Dream once and noone in my group enjoyed it. We rode Ahab after playing around in the drop zone and riding Rock Stacker and were giddy to ride the new double black diamond trail, especially with all the hoopla surrounding it. We were kinda bummed that the trail felt like we rode uphill all the way down to our car and there wasn't much challenging riding.