Malachai20

modern short stem plus riser bar helps al lot I guess

simply very good engineers who have perfected aluminum construction. One of the owners teaches mechanical engineering at a university. Almost everyone else deployed all the ressources for carbon and stopped putting efforts into aluminium frames. The durability of the Last bikes is excellent.

The ERA V1 is the only enduro fork I have ridden in the last 15 years without csu creak.

I'm 54 now and would have benefited greatly from some of the tips. Especially about pushing it too muchband crashing too much. Thanks Ben, very interesting and also nice to know that I'm probably doing some things right now. Oh yeah, i don't like ebikes either, but please stop complaining about it. a few comments are really just embarrassing

@Katbox: imho there is an important difference between feeling challenged and freaking out. and there is an important difference whether I am riding alone or as a coach. and in the latter case, safety has priority.

@remymetailler: No, of course you didn't push them. Your way of coaching is also adequate. I liked your video where your coaching an advanced rider. There it is shown that he is facing the right amount of challenge so he makes a "huge progress in one day". But he is never overstrained, because he has the experience to assess the risks of each feature and the skills. The point I try to make is that I dont think going on a black trail with beginniner to intermediate riders is a good idea. If someone is saying "i kinda freaked out" it is a very strong hint that it is not an adequate setting. There are scenes where you can tell by their posture that they are scared when they are dropping in. This is not a good mindset for learning new things and it is not safe. In my experience, it is often difficult for very good riders to empathize with people who have not been riding that long. This is an important point in the training of coaches

I ve just watched it second time to be sure. Imho it was pure luck that nothing went terribly wrong. As a MTB Coach I would not send someone down a feature when they re not 100 percent sure they can handle it and I m not 100 percent sure they have the necessary skills and confident mindset. This maybe debatable in certain situations when consequences are negligible, but not on exposed terrain

Am I the only on feeling uncomfortable watching this? They are obviously outright scared several times because they don't have rhe necessary skills. This should not happen in a coaching situation.

As a native german speaker: panzer just means tank, armour... There ist no german word for "nazi tank". You would have to use "Nazi Panzer"