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Your bike has 2 wheels, you have your own preference, ride whatever you fancy on that day. Their is no debate in personal preference.

@naptime: I'm Scottish, I would go down with heat stroke before getting half way up the hill on foot!

@justanotherusername: I did a quick Q&A with half the worlds enemy... Ai, and the conclusion was that there is no protection that would have made any difference as it was the rotational force when hitting the tree that caused the injuries and short of something that you could not move in, the outcome would still be the same. The crash was 100% my own fault, never just cruise down when you know something isnt right (front tyre was too soft, I rode tubes forever until this season, so tubeless softness is still new to me, gonna solve the issue going back to tubes, especially up front), there is always 1 corner you go to smash and this time I got smashed with the understeer on the exit of the turn. We live and learn... another scenario to put into the don't do locker.

This is interesting and good timing.... (for me personally, not being selfish, but gotta look out for my old body now) I had a huge smash nearly 5 weeks ago. Took a decent sized tree to the RHS of my chest, very hard. Broke T5, T6, T7 Transverse process, a bunch of ribs into multiple pieces (including the ones connected to T5,6,7) and stuck a hole in my lung just for fun. It was not the frontal impact that did the damage, but the sudden slowing down and most of the damage was done on my back and side, the ribs protecting my vital organs (as the consultant said, your ribs did their job, he is a rider too which was cool). . I now wonder, had I been wearing chest protection, would it have dissipated a bit of the force and would I have walked away with a heavy winding or would the damage have been just the same... . . (the bike is ok, just the stem needed replaced) Frothing to get back on the tools, do some digging then back to riding a few weeks later, consultant said I would not ride before Christmas, but that really means November... right!!!!

Redbull Hardline... Practicing in the rain and wind on mud and wet wood, roots and rocks Redbull Rampage... FR.... Fire Road

This sucks, but is not a great surprise, consumers shape markets. Being in an industry where "rationalization" is not uncommon, this sucks, it sucks the most from within the company and especially within development where passionate people will be impacted. Even if they remain in employment, they will still be imapcted. I feel for all the employees involved. Its easy to feel for the consumer, but peoples lives will be impacted by this. There is more and more legislation coming into industry, especially for larger companies who are more accountable that sucks up time and sucks up work fun time.

haha my wife didn't find it funny at all whilst I was wetting myself.

You can buy handlebar extenders from Amazon for under a tenner! Ran 750mm bars for years with the grips 5mm off the end when I went to 760mm. Only issue was if you had a big crash then you often needed a new grip. Anyone who raced Inners back in the day either smashed trees, had a 2nd set of bars that were narrower or ran their grips out a bit for other tracks after Inners.

Pinkbike puts up the sickest MTB video in years... 18 Comments. Pinkbike puts up a thread about an E-Bike... Folk lose their minds. Just get out and ride lads, we don't care if you are on an E-bike with 2000 gigawatts of power for the climb or a 1996 BMX up here in the North of Scotland (Ok, you would not survive the trails up here on a 1996 BMX), just have fun.

I still have the yellow version hanging in my bike shed. Climbed so badly (the pedal kickback was nuts) but descended like a mini Dh bike.